GAMBLING
Wastin’ Away in Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Casino
Cross the Long-Allen bridge over the Red River to Bossier City, make a left on Bass Pro Road, and suddenly you’re in a casino that doubles as a parrot-heavy altar to Jimmy Buffett, America’s beach-casual bard of good times.
Do People Care About Art in Las Vegas?
Most people go to Las Vegas for gambling, free drinks, cocaine, and those nudie flyers they hand out in the street. Patrick C. Duffy, former president of the Las Vegas Art Museum is trying to change that perception, one tourist at a time.
My Dead Grandparents Make My Mom Win Big in Vegas
Two years ago my mother's mother, my baubie, suddenly passed away—and ever since, my mom’s been unstoppable at gambling. I’m a staunch atheist, and yet I'm pretty sure my dead grandparents have given my mom the power to win big in Vegas.
Which Horselete Should You Root for in the Kentucky Derby?
Presumably you don’t have a personal connection with one of the animals, and unless you are a huge fan of orbs or whatever a vyjack is, a name alone won’t determine your rooting interest. Which is why I’ve compiled this handy guide for you that matches...
Migrating Luck: Gambling with Chinese Immigrants in Connecticut
Macau, a Chinese island adjacent to Hong Kong, has become the biggest gambling destination in the world. But you don’t need to look across the Pacific for proof of a Chinese gambling culture. Up and down the Northeast Corridor, casinos compete fiercely...
Sitting Down in the Deep End
It was an oppressively cold day in New York. The wind was particularly icy. I was huddled between my girlfriend and a posse of union organizers. By nightfall over 14 million people would have marched against the US invasion of Iraq all over the world...
Ontario's Hells Angels Have a Hard-On for Sports Gambling
After over 20 people were arrested in connection to a Hells Angels-affiliated gambling ring in Ontario, cops are becoming more serious about cracking down on a growing league of organized betting circles. A buddy of mine was there to see the bust go...
A Predator's Guide to Breaking Up
A sawdust joint is an end-of-the line kind of gambling parlor. It's a place without frills and pretension.This column will be about gambling and gamblers; about regular people who play games for money. Most won't be geniuses or savants. Some will win a...
The Walkabout Is Cambodia's Sleaziest Bar
There’s something kind of heartening in the fact that there's one thing that can make the taxi girls, the motodops, and the Venn diagram of wildly divergent expat groups overlap in the middle of a hooker bar: a garbage bag filled with money.
Interview with a Casino Priest
A casino is a place to lose money and time and wear a bad shirt (or take acid and go to a Lauryn Hill concert). What it isn’t is a place for a priest. So when I found out that Melbourne’s Crown Casino employs a full-time priest I said shit off. But...
Fantasy Football Draft Prep, Part III - Fake Everything Else
Even though no one who’s paid to know fantasy football can actually predict anything, VICE researches and predicts--sort of--which wide receivers don't suck and which are, like, torturous, and whether you should even pay attention to tight ends...
Chatting with an Irish Bookie
BetDash founder Justin Goldman explains why we can add gambling to the list of vices Ireland does better than us, along with drinking and eating carbs.