But downtown has its pleasures. I spent an enjoyable hour at a storefront casino one afternoon, betting at the two-dollar craps table. I followed his path for a while, and maybe stayed in the game longer as a consequence. Unfortunately, though, we never got a shooter and the table never got hot, and I noticed that his stack, too, was dwindling. Craps used to hold center stage in Las Vegas casinos, but it has been eclipsed by the more solitary and competitive blackjack.
Craps remains the social game, and in the right circumstances the most fun.
Logically this has to be true in some sense, since gambling is now so widely available elsewhere. Yet people gamble here who wouldn't gamble elsewhere. All rights reserved.