Gambling In Atlantic City
By Adel Awwad, Sat Dec 10th

Gambling in Atlantic City, first legalized in 1978, has given atremendous boost to the economy. As a result of this, AtlanticCity has now become a major tourist industry, with millions ofvisitors each year spending billions of dollars onentertainment. This alone has greatly contributed to theincreasing demand for new hotels, restaurants, and retailservices, providing much-needed employment for over one-third ofits population.

When you think of gambling in Atlantic City, you'll more thanlikely think of poker. Over 50 million people play atleast once a month and Atlantic City offers some of the bestcasino rooms in the country. The majority of these arelocated along the Boardwalk and in the Marina area. Bally's,Harrah's, and the Sands are relatively small in comparison tosome of the other gambling casinos, but they offer manylow-limit games and daily tournaments in Texas Hold'Em,7-Card Stud, and Omaha poker.

The rooms at the Sands, Bally's Wild Wild West, and mostof the other casinos have a large number of non-smoking tablesfor players. The Tropicana has a low-limit room, aswell, with televised sports events, viewable from every table.The Tropicana also features the Trop Club, open 24 hours,7 days a week, where its members can earn anywhere from 50 centsto $2.00 an hour for each live game they play. This moneymay be used for room, food, or beverage credit and are justanother incentive to play poker.

Gambling in Atlantic City is often closely identified with thevery popular Trump Taj Majal, which introduced the firstnon-smoking room. There are over 70 tables, where you canplay many kinds of poker, including 7-Card Stud, Texas Hold-em,and Omaha, for a low entry of $1 up to $600. Daily tournaments,Hi-Lo games, and two annual tournaments, including theU.S. Championship and the Trump Classic, are held eachyear. The Taj Majal, along with several other casinos, offersfree lessons for the beginner. If you're gambling inAtlantic City and seeking luxury and elegance, you shouldconsider the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa and Caesar's. Casinosin Atlantic City are primarily smoke free and food and beverageservice

are readily available.

Gambling in Atlantic City has brought new life to what was oncea fading city. Discover gambling in Atlantic City; it's excitingand fun.

About the author:Adel Awwad is the webmaster of Online Casinos - http://www.casinoguide.ws Copyright © 2005All Rights Reserved. This document may be freely redistributedin its unedited form and on the condition that all copyrightreferences are kept intact along with the hyperlinked URLs.