Some friends and I went to Jackpot, Nevada over the weekend to do some gambling. It's the closest place that offers real casinos with table games. It's true: gambling is for suckers. I lost a little bit of money, but we had fun, and the drinks are free.
Jackpot is right over the northern Nevada border, about 3 hours away. The town is nonexistent, basically several smallish casinos surrounded by a trailer park and discount liquor store. We stayed in a hotel/casino, and even went to the buffet and swam in the pool. I played mostly blackjack and watched my friends lose money in no-limit hold em. I think the key is to play penny slots till your arm falls off and keep the complementary drinks coming.
It's easy to get depressed in casinos. The median age is old, the Social Security checks of the vast majority of gamblers either trickling away in nickel slots or gushing forth in $10 buy-in black jack. If you can ignore the reek of loneliness and decrepitude, you might just have a good time. If not, at least you've reminded yourself of some of the worse 'what-ifs' in life, speeding back across the Sawtooths toward the loose embrace of a different kind of escape.
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