Maybe it s their time maybe this time the dice will be hot. Look at the poker games. Players are often lonely, frustrated, anxious to make some human contact to hear someone agree with them, to console them or pat them on the back. It might be a friend, a wife, a relative, or even a new acquaintance. Look at the growth of the games in casinos, in card rooms and even private or home poker sessions on Thursday or Saturday night.
Sports bettors share the same needs.
Share an opinion, root for the home team, and of course, back your pointspread opinion with money. Gambling is just as much about people and their need to express themselves, their opinion, their need to escape boredom as much as it is finding an edge, making an easy buck or making a bigger score. I soon expect we ll be getting our free drinks from vending machines and the buffets will be closer to the Automats of the 1940s and 50s put in a coin, grab a sandwich and be gone. Casino owners slowly but surely are taking the fun out of gambling. As they reduce their costs and risks via bloodless accountants with efficiency-expert mentalities, they ll do something no state or federal government laws have ever been able to do over a sustained period.