Perversive
Atlantic City
Oh, it's
so crazy in Atlantic city... Everybody wants your money! We spent one day
in March,2000 there but we felt that this thing can push you down ...
We arrived
there about 11 am, parked and rushed in to the nearest casino. Our goal
was to visit as many different casinos as possible to see the distinctive
exterior and interior. We were very surprised to see many people inside
in the morning. It looks like many people live there... We didn't play
cards but we tried several different machines. First we tried $1 machine
that eat all our money shamelessly. Then we found 50c machine which was
bad also. But I remembered that 25c machines are the best. So, finally
we occupied one of those and made a game. It's really better than more
expensive ones because you win more often (of course, the max prize isn't
so big as in expensive ones). So, we lose and won some money and at the
end of day we calculated that actually we've got more than we spent! It
was exciting but it's difficult to stop :) I'm not a gambler but the game
was like a magnet! I imagine that many people just spend their salary or
whatever money they have completely.
There
is a small explanation for russian people who haven't been in casino. First,
you buy tokens from cashier using your dollars. Next you choose the machine
and play, play and play. If you spent all your money you can buy more tokens
and etc. If you are lucky and you won some nice amount of money you can
get tokens out of the machine from time to time. At last, when you are
done and have some tokens you go to the cashier and changes them back to
dollars. Some crazy people (see all year around players) have special cards,
kind of credit cards for casinos. They don't need tokens and money is withdrawn
directly from this card. You know I think this process is even worse because
you don't really count your money in such case!
At that
day we visited many casinos. Caesar's has very great architecture outside
and inside, they creates ancient Rome atmosphere... Trump Plaza casino
is very plain one, nothing special, just sit down and spend money. Bailey's
casino is an old west style, it has quite funny sculptures inside. Taj
Mahal is very big casino and has great indian atmosphere. There is very
cool elephants at the main entrance. We also visited several other places
but they doesn't have any special features at all. Good-looking casinos
look very very rich, I wonder :)
What
else Atlantic city has besides casinos? Not much, just shops. Except nice
walk by the Atlantic ocean.