When you spend some time around racetracks and casinos, you learn fairly quickly that good, bad or indifferent there is more to gambling for many people than merely the rules of the game and winning or losing.

And, when you are around the racetracks and casinos a bit longer, you cannot help but form observations and opinions about the games themselves, the racetracks the casinos and the people sitting next to you in the stands and at the tables.

Offered for your entertainment and edification, The Musings is a Gambler's Way editorial page, if you will: a place for us to get a little more expressive about what we like and don't like.

And, if you like or don't like any or all of it, write to us or, post it in The Forum.