Since the advent of legalized sports betting in NY, one of the few forms of illegal gambling that still remains for knockaround guys to eke out a buck, are private social clubs offering video-gambling (joker-poker type) machines, and card games.

They still take sports bets, but the volume of customers and action wagered has been gutted...and gets worse day by day. Same as years back when OTB came into existence. Horse bets went out the window.

The gambling rackets, which were also a staple and cash cow for the mob, have been slowly, but surely, whittled down to pennies, by comparison to years back. It's fast becoming a dying form of revenue.