Mr. Tan, however, says these watches are not for hard-core gamblers.
Hard-core gamblers can now lose their money in casinos in Connecticut or New Jersey.
In the first are the hard-core gamblers, obsessed with speed figures and lineage and probability.
This is the time of day when the hard-core gamblers come in, and they are all unique characters".
Even the hard-core gamblers, she said, seemed to be taking a rest to watch the Olympics on television.
This development, most of it taking place on the Cotai Strip, will propel growth by attracting visitors other than hard-core gamblers from the mainland and Hong Kong.
The crowd included hard-core gamblers, pneumatic women in velour tracksuits, the adult film star Ron Jeremy, and a handful of tourists with terrible timing.
But that fact will be irrelevant to the many fans -- and even some hard-core gamblers -- who will be placing $2 bets to win on Smarty Jones not as an investment, but as a souvenir, hoping they can turn the ticket into a keepsake if he becomes the 12th Triple Crown winner, and the first since Affirmed in 1978.
But the bright lights conceal a gambling area where flinty-eyed dealers watch over hard-core gamblers, many lined up three deep at the blackjack tables, loudly outbidding one another for hands.
There are basically two kinds of people in this bracket: the well-heeled amateur and the hard-core gambler.
For the purposes of this article, however, we will set aside the hard-core gambler because they tend to follow the money and don't necessarily need luxury amenities to attract them.
