Matteo Ferraro writes about the human side of gambling: the jobs inside a casino, how the industry has changed for the people who work in it, and the stories that are documented well enough to be retold.
He does not publish interviews he has not conducted and does not build articles around composite characters. Where a story comes from a published account, he says which one.
His interest is in the ordinary detail rather than the dramatic one: what a shift actually looks like, what the rules are behind the table, what changed when the halls moved online.
"The most interesting thing in a casino is rarely the big win. It is the routine that everyone around it has agreed to follow." — Matteo Ferraro, CasinoLobi.net
Matteo Ferraro writes for CasinoLobi about people and working life in the gambling industry.
He covers the roles inside a casino, how the work is organised and how it changed as the industry moved online.
Only when they actually took place. Articles built on published accounts say so and name the source.
In the CasinoLobi Blog section, with exclusive interviews and true stories from the Italian gambling world.
Yes, responsible gambling is part of the subject: the working side of the industry is also where its limits are set.
This page used to carry an interview that never happened. In its place: what the published rules and procedures say about the job.
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