A talk with 'Fast Buck Freddy' about the ins and outs of boardwalk games of chance
once wrote that the taste for gambling “is a kind of feeble-mindedness -- maybe even an insanity. Whenever it has seized a man of any visible talent he has ended crazy.”That topic came to mind last week with the annual release from the state“The Jersey Shore is one of the biggest draws in the state for families looking for fun and recreation,” Attorney General Matt Platkin said in the release. “We are making sure those families are not being scammed out of their hard-earned money.
A fellow worker stayed on the boards. Over the years he acquired several games of chance as well as a nickname, “Fast Buck Freddy.” In my experience, the problem isn’t so much that the games are rigged. It’s that the customers are not exactly math geniuses. Typical was the “Guess Your Weight” game Freddy used to work.
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