gambling & culture

I know people say that the casino industry is recession-proof, but this might be taking this too far. Steve Lopez of the LA Times has a great story about someone gambling in Lake Charles, Louisiana, even though his New Orleans-area home is still underwater. Evidence, perhaps, that the human urge to gamble is almost as […]

Let’s say you’ve got a 17 year-old who’s gambling a bit more than he should. Would you tell him to stop gambling immediately? Offer to bank him in exchange for a cut of the profits? Well, two Singapore parents decided the best solution to their son’s gambling “problem” was to send him to a casino

Academic centers dealing with gambling have rather prosaic names: Reno has Bill Eadington’s excellent Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming; a consortium of Canadian universities has the Alberta Gaming Research Institute; and of course there is my own Center for Gaming Research. Not too flashy, but you get the picture: people studying

While I was writing Roll the Bones, I thought sometimes that maybe there was a good reason that no one had yet written a thorough history of world gambling–because there isn’t any interest in reading it. But I find that I’m wrong: there is already such a book out there. There’s just one problem: to

The Connecticut attorney general recently asked Foxwoods casino to shut down a gambling game with an online component, charging that it is online gambling. But is it really?

The Wisconsin State Journal has an interesting piece about playing poker online for a living. This is a growing phenomenon. But is wearing your own personalized loungewear a job requirement?

Think someone who won a million-dollar slot jackpot is rolling in dough? Well, owning the casino is even more profitable. Forbes has an interesting slideshow with the the richest gambling magnates in the world.

Yesterday, I suggested that gambling may be able to predict the future…as long as the future’s already been written in a book and people are able to bet on it. This site has yet another example of gambling gone wild: Stuff On My Cat � Smokey has a bit of an issue Just when you

Since 2002, Russia has become a truly casino nation. Moscow alone, which had 30 casinos in 2002, has almost double that number today. But many American visitors would be a bit surprised by what they found behind the doors of a Moscow gambling house: Victorian decor…and arm wrestling?

In the true spirit of blog-dom, here’s a story about a story that, for me, is more interesting than the original story. The State of Nevada has recently approved wireless gaming in casinos, and I think that the industry might be interested in hearing the reaction from a gamer’s website. While these aren’t your hardcore