Aside from being a bullshit movie critic and lame liberal newspaper columnist, Richard Roper has written some books and he expresses his love of gambling in a book called " Bet The House". In this book the addict and media elite Roper gambles a grand a day at various gambling venues around the country and then writes and brags about it in this brackish book. This is a guy who loves his poker and being part of the one percent way overpaid as a media personal seems to justify the irresponsibility of Roper. Whether Roper actually bet his personal money with this ..this book "project" is not quite clear but it seems the purpose was clear. Roper was looking for media exposure and found himself with many media offers to appear on television through this book. Writing a book inspired by a anti- McDonald's well known documentary did get King Richard on many programs such as Howard Sterns satellite show where they discussed his gambling casino addictions. Too Ropers credit he does seem to give so e critique to the culture and especially the changes in the past decade as it has gone dramatically more upscale clearly to intimidate the middle income gamblers to pretty much not feel welcomed and stay in their local riverboats. Las Vegas is a playground for the worlds elites and bob from Albany New York needs to stay in the Hudson Valley.
This book is pretty worthless aside from the number of gambling possibilities that Roper exposes and perhaps his best was for the old dairy greyhound track in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It took some time for this high roller to discover that his one hundred dollar bets was changing the odds in the often three hundred attendant races. This was the last greyhound race course in the Midwest that has since been shut down along with the oversized OTB in downtown Chicago that was called Stretch Run.
If there is any more reason t raise taxes on the rich it is because these pricks avoid taxes so they can play in these various poker tournaments and casino offerings that are now available in America in this golden age of inequality. A real journalist for would expose this aspect on our culture but instead we have corporate ass kissers like Richard Roper who want to join it and s so desperate for money he makes up an awful published account of his gambling addiction.
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