Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.
Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.
But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.
The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.
The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.
Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.