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As a result, convenience gambling is emerging as the kind of gambling that everyone can dislike, a juicy target for opponents and a scapegoat for supporters of more acceptable kinds of wagering.
About 80 percent of the action will be on which team wins, but Vegas bookmakers offer more than 200 wagering options, including Player to Score First Touchdown (Eddie George, Titans, is the 9-2 favorite); the Double Result, a bet on who's ahead at the half and at the end (you can have Tennessee at the half and St. Louis at the end at 7-2); who scores first and who wins the game (you can take the Rams both ways at 5-6).
That means that even though there's no demand for money in Japan , which in turn means that it's hard to see how economic growth is going to be sustained there, investors are wagering that the Japanese economy is coming back.
If you're wagering 150 percent as much money as you have, the profits when you succeed will be greater than otherwise.
It will probably propose that casinos and state lotteries fund gambling-addiction research and that casinos take much stronger measures to bar problem gamblers from wagering.