The spell of the Internet already gives them the opportunity to bet when they want - sometimes illegally - on Web sites from the privacy of their home.
"For me it's pretty relaxing," said Craig, an Annapolis resident who declined to give his last name.
The 27-year-old said he plays online blackjack through CasinoFortune.com once or twice a week in 90-minute sessions.
"I do other things at the same time," he said. "It's sort of therapeutic in a way."
Anti-gambling activists fear that the estimated 1,800 Internet gambling Web sites...
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