I was alive and well when the casinos arrived in Atlantic City, but never visited them. We'd go further south to the beach. As a kid my parents had a friend who had a house in Bay Head, I have such lovely memories of that place.
You must do well at the craps tables, you sound as if you know your stuff.
Tony Soprano, that brings up a perfect image of what you are talking about. Did you watch it? When I was around 15 we had a nutty teacher for Italian in HS. He wanted to have lunch with a lady in Little Italy in NY so he created a "field trip" and took the whole class. When the bus arrived he opened the door and said "Be back at 4. Have an Italian lunch" and let us all go completely unsupervised. I wandered around the whole day and I recall seeing some Tony Sopranos hanging around some doorways. None of us had enough money to buy a restaurant lunch, but we had a good time site seeing.
@anniem thank you for all the things you share
Your teacher was crazy. He was lucky. All his students came back by 4! What a story. Great fun for the young to discover NYC.
As for the Tony Sopranos in real life, money follows money-sometimes.
Sometimes, I am a very good craps player. I need motivation to win. Long story short. Mr Fish lost too much money at a craps table. I was so pissed off!. I suggested to Mr Fish to go get more money. I was going to throw the dice! Not only did Mr Fish win back his money but also we both won "more" money.