I visited Atlantic City long time ago with my husband, but all we did was just sightseeing, no gambling...
Here in westcoast, there is the very famous Las Vegas nearby, which takes about 4hours from LA.
Maybe 2~3 years ago, I went to Las Vegas with my two kids when my parents visited us to see their grand children.
My family was belong to a special tour group.
The guide showed us so many beautiful events held in famous hotel in Vegas, It was too many to remember right now.
Formost remembering is the fountain show which water was spouting from the fountain. Special effect of lighting and spraying water at night seemed like firework on the water.
It was amazing and still couldn't forget...
Later that night, guide told us enjoy gambling and also advised us not to lock the hotel room which would automatically lock soon after out the room.
That night all we were very tired.
To be worse, to go to my parent's room where two my kids were at that time, my room was locked. I forgot to carry out the key card. I was so embarassed because I wore a pajama with my wet hair at that time.
As soon as picking up the key and opened my room, I was hardly able to fog a mirror.
Next morning guide told us in the bus, one of the most stupid tourist in Vegas is someone never spent a penny in gambling.
That was us....
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Have you ever gambled in a casino?
Unexpectedly for the first time, I have been to Atlantic City in the state of New Jersey yesterday with one of my friend. The city is a very popular sightseeing spot for tourists gathering over 33 million people every year. Facing Atlantic Ocean on its east side, the city is a wonderful place to get around, located 180 miles away from my home.
When I arrived there by three hour driving from my residence, I found gorgeous, splendid buildings in the middle of the city near the sea. Most of big buildings were hotels hosting casinos as their subsidiary (rather "major", I guess) business. There were twelve casinos offering 24-hour non-stop action, of which I visited three places (Bally's, Caesar, and Trump Casinos) for looking around.
Thousands of slots (Cleopatra's Gardens, Progressive Slots, Slingos, Video Pokers, Traditional Reel Games and so on) and hundreds of tables (Roulettes, Craps, Blackjacks, Stud Pokers, Baccarats, Kenos, Caribbean Studs, etc) were crowded with people making a mad search in the hope of hitting the jackpot. Some people seemed to enjoy their game just for fun, but others seemed mad at it, mechanically inserting coins and pulling the levers continuously.
I was told that a lot of Koreans had gambled away their fortunes in this pleasure-seeking city. So, I wanted to experience gambling to see why they are mad at it. At first, I wanted to play some table games (the "three-card poker" looked very easy and simple to me!) with a beautiful, good-figured dealer, but the minimum ante was over 15 - 50 bucks. That means I must have at least several hundred bucks to play the game for a short while. Inescapably, I was diverted to slot machines that cost me quite less money.
With 20 bucks, I played a video poker game (a kind of slot game) for about 30 min thinking carefully how to win this game. Another 20 bucks just for 10 min! Then, I finally gave up the game. While getting out of the casino, I concluded that "they" were stirring up our gambling spirit to extort our money as easy as duck soup.