gambling

Explores the benefits and drawbacks of gambling, includes personal accounts of teens who have had gambling problems, and discusses the business of gambling and how technology has promoted it.

Examines legalized gambling and the civic and personal issues at stake.

Eleven articles explore various aspects of gambling, including the lives of professional and recreational gamblers, gambling addiction, and what it is like to work at a casino.

Presents a compilation of primary and secondary source materials, including graphs, quotes, articles, and charts, that provide information about gambling in the United States, covering supply and demand, casinos, lotteries, and sports and Internet gambling.

A compilation of primary and secondary source materials, including graphs, quotes, articles, and charts, that provide information about gambling in America, covering casino gambling on Native American reservations and elsewhere, lotteries, bingo, pari-mutuel betting, and illegal gambling.

Eighteen-year-old Barry competes in a non-sanctioned boxing match in hopes of helping his recently-widowed mother, unaware that his best friend and manager, Alby, has his own desperate need for a share of the purse that may put their friendship on the line.

Describes how a group of overachieving, anarchist MIT students joined a decades-old underground blackjack club dedicated to counting cards and beating the system at major casinos around the world, managed to legally take several Las Vegas casinos for more than three million dollars.

Sixteen-year-old Denn finds himself alienating both friends and family when he becomes obsessed with playing high-stakes poker with adult gamblers.

Compulsive gambler David Caine uses his brilliant mathematical mind to outsmart the odds at Manhattan's underground poker clubs, but when he experiences a severe epileptic seizure at a key moment, he finds his life spinning out of control, and agrees to try an experimental treatment that soon causes more harm than good.

Addresses the issues of legalized gambling, illegal gambling, and compulsive gambling in an even-handed way.