I've never played the game.... but many do

We only run for the money, got no strings attached!
We take all the action we can meet.
(Springsteen)

That is what paid my way thru college and supported me for many
years.

There is still plenty of action to be had in Vegas area and a fortune still
changing hands on a regular basis.

My boy still does now and then.

You better bring a full size/Street legal/Small tire low 4's eighth mile car that can run
straight down Broadway and hook anywhere OR you will be heading Home =
Broke and Embarrassed!

It used to be in the 60s/70s, a $1,000 race would be talked about all month.
Now they race for ten times that much regularly.