Atlantic City has shed half its casinos since 2014, and everyone who knows anything will tell you the money dried up — except Brianna, 34, who will respectfully disagree from her fully paid-off home in Ventnor. She works one of the remaining high-roller rooms at a Boardwalk casino, where the clientele is smaller but spends harder than ever because the competition is gone. She made $121,000 last year and has been over six figures for three straight years, working four nights. (Her ex-husband, who left because he thought she was "wasting her potential," now works in middle management in Philadelphia and makes $68K — she hasn't said a word, but her silence is doing a lot of work.) Brianna knows every high-limit regular by name, drink preference, and approximate mood from fifty feet away. That's not a skill they teach in business school, but it absolutely should be. And her secret to keeping regulars loyal? That, she says, she'll never tell.