It’s a Friday night and Cory and Neil are on decent rolls on the roulette and blackjack tables. The 25-year-olds (who didn’t want their last names used) are a business graduate student and a law student, respectively, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Neither man knows or even notices the other. Instead of a seafood buffet and a bar with high-end booze, Cory has an end table with chips, dip, pizza and a can of Miller Light. Neil isn’t eating. There are no other gamblers or gawkers around him. And their roulette and blackjack tables? They’re confined to computer monitors in corners of their apartments.
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