1.   As Martinez details in his book, serious gamblers still get free meals, rooms and even airfare.

2.   Big-time gamblers got to players.

3.   A gambler can get on a roll, build a stack of chips and feel pretty good.

4.   After being narrowly defeated in April, games of chance were approved by voters in November and gamblers got their first chance at the new machines on Friday.

5.   But very few gamblers get to keep their chips.

6.   How desperate do gamblers get?

7.   The new machines are designed to let gamblers get more money and cut down on fraud.