Casino Gambling Guide

Fred’s gambling addiction takes over on the boys trip to Atlantic City. For full episodes go to abc.go.com

Gambling with Crookston’s future. Against all odds. Betting it all based on one’s gut feeling. Only happens inside a casino? Think so? Hi and welcome to the Crookston Documentary Channel here on You Tube. I have a history of traveling through Las Vegas, stopping, seeing the sights but never dropping even a nickel. Gambling isn’t something I usually do. Unfortunately I got tied up in a game of high stakes in Crookston from 2006-2009 and lost 000 before I “crapped out”. Yet my high stakes, losing gamble, wasn’t the only game going in town. The Crookston City Council was busy with their own high stakes game as they dreamed of building a no frills (a huge hulking building) to house three hockey rinks out on the far extreme edge of the city. The cost: million. For: A declining youth population (a 50% decline since the 1960’s). Crookston has, recently, been pestered with a factory closing, layoffs, and a ever rising burden of retirees and the elderly. Almost as if ones back was against the wall, anxious, not thinking things through, a bet was hastily placed. Crookston’s most powerful city council in the city’s long history? Based on the gross amounts of funds flowing through city government (for all programs and projects under their control) and their ability to radically alter Crookston future direction through their official authority to act, this council is thee most powerful in Crookstons long history. More then three of these current council members have already …

A kid calls his father and tells him that he lost 000 in Atlantic City. Listen to the whole thing, the rant about Andy Pettite is priceless.

Alex and Jim talk about gambling (Gluecksspiel) in Germany and the USA.

Alex (from Germany) and Jim (from the USA)talk about cultural differences and similarities between Germany and the USA.

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It is main movie scene where Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) arriving to Atlantic City in big-style (private-jet, Full VIP admission) and after winning 9M $ decide not to stop and continues until didn’t lose everything, exactly as kean Casino manager Victor Foss (John Hurt) predicted because “Iceman” never stops.

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I am related with Casino business so I find this scene quite remarkable. I had similar situation many many times….