Crew members began roaming the boat with trays piled high with sickness bags and crackers. I’ve seen fewer sick people in the Ben Taub Hospital emergency room. (“It’s 2 pm on Tuesday, why is traffic backed up?”) Once the boat leaves port, it takes about 1-1/2 hours to reach federal waters, 9.1 miles offshore, where it’s legal for the captain to say, “Let the games begin.” The boat has 180 slot machines and tables for shootout poker, blackjack, craps, chuck-a-luck, and other games. You want to arrive a half-hour early, a built-in safety against those inexplicable traffic jams on I-45. It’s about a one-hour drive from Houston to Galveston. Tickets are $15, including two free drink tickets. The cruises generally take between six and seven hours. Jacks or Better has sailings scheduled every day, and twice on Fridays and Saturdays. Between rough seas that canceled more than a dozen departures, damage from hitting a buoy that put the boat in dry dock several days, and seasick guests backing up toilets and sinks with vomit … the boat is looking for calmer waters this summer. It hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing for the Jacks or Better gambling boat in Galveston.
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