My wife isn’t crazy about the fact that I play poker (Texas Hold’em) every Thursday.
Gambling is not her thing, except in deciding to marry me.
I don’t gamble on spectator sports, but I do like to play cards.
The first couple of years I was here, a friend and I used to go to the casino at a nearby resort about once a month and play blackjack. It was low-rent at best. Guests of the resort would be there mingled in with locals and taxi drivers. The taxi drivers would take customers to the casino, then plop down next to them and scream at them for not-hitting on 15 when the dealer had an eight showing. Fistfights were common. Nice place to take the family.
It was about a 30-minute car ride at night, which in this country is like traversing I-95 on a skateboard. Anything can happen. We once saw a cement mixer crash into a truck full of chickens. Both of them went over the bridge into the river.
We stopped going soon after that.
