Crazy week at ECG. The big news was the plan for major changing in horse racing and Atlantic City. The plans seem major, but they’re just plans and this is coming from the government, so I’m taking a wait and see while watching how things unfold.
This week will be the beginning of significant changes to ECG. I’ve been wanting to change the layout for a while, and that will happen in the next two weeks which mean that content will be slowing down and things will likely get (more) funny looking.
In this time I’ll explain why I’m welcoming the New BetRevolution.com to be my new sportsbook sponsor. It’s almost football season! Here’s the fun from the past week.
Lots of good stuff this week on ECG. I’m going to slowly start ECG 4.0 in the next few weeks. I’m going to try to do this behind the scenes, but my lack of programming skills may not allow that. So if the site looks as if it’s under construction then it probably is. This won’t effect the blog updates, but some features may go away.
Feel free to email me if there’s something you’d like to see on the next version of ECG or if you have an idea for a logo. You can reach me than [eastcoastgambler] at [gmail] dot [com].
I was checking the TripAdvisor Atlantic City message board and saw a link to the 2007 documentary by Louis Theroux “Gambling In Las Vegas.”
This is a cool look behind at a weekend of gambling with high rollers at The Hilton. This shows the fun parts and bad parts of gambling. You can watch the youtube videos, in 10 minute segments below or you can buy a Louis Theroux box set if you want to own it.
I’ve read quite a few good reviews about “Tyson“; the documentary about Mike Tyson’s life. Everything I read was about how this was a very “real” look at his life. As I watched the movie I realized that this was indeed very real and a raw look at Tyson’s life.
Listening to Mike Tyson talk about growing up as a kid that was picked on and watching him grow into a bully himself and a petty thug was a little uncomfortable, but interesting. Even more uncomfortable to watch was Tyson talking about sex, violence and his marriage to Robin Givens.
As a boxing fan I was more interested in his relationship to Cus D’Amato. D’Amato was Tyson’s trainer and seems to be the person that saved Tyson from life in the hood. Tyson seemed to look up to D’Amato as his savior and a father figure. As he said “Cus broke me down and rebuilt me as a new person.”
Sure Tyson won the heavyweight championship after D’Amato died, but it seems as if Tyson began his downward spiral on D’Amato passed away.
In the latter part of the movie Tyson goes into graphic detail about getting whooped by Evander Holyfield, then biting Holyfield’s ear and the bad people he surrounded himself with. As the movie went on, it got more and more brutal.
The movie had a lot of quick cuts, which made it easy to watch and digest. This is definitely a well done movie that is easy to watch. This probably isn’t a movie I’d watch too often, but I don’t watch many movies more than once. I was happy to see the end of the movie because it started to get a little depressing. I’ve lived through most of this movie and it was great to see everything I’ve seen on the news in 90 minutes.
I’m a day behind with my week in review, but I was away this weekend and wasn’t sure if I could update ECG from my iPhone, which I can as you’ll see in my last entry of last week. If you were keeping tabs on my weekend via twitter, you know a lot of went on, but I’ll post a full trip report & pictures later this week. For now here are the headlines from the week.
The last post for the week is my favorite. Not only was I enjoying a nice cold corona, but it was my first post from my new iPhone. Hopefully in the future I’ll be able to post some quick and fun blips from my excursions. I’m sure there will be more on this to follow.
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