Sportsbooks are dark and odds are long in Las Vegas

Nobody would have given odds on this.

Inside the glittering casinos that line the Las Vegas Strip, the slot machines were turned off and the sportsbooks were dark. On what would have been the biggest Monday of the year for bookies, not a dollar changed hands.

No big national championship game bets, no wagers on Tiger Woods to win the Masters. No sports means no action, even for the most hardcore gamblers.

About the only thing degenerate sports bettors could do was go online and find a Russian table tennis match to put their money on.

"Russian pingpong has stolen the show," said Nick Bogdanovich of the William Hill betting chain.

"You can't even find it streaming anywhere to watch, but people are betting on it."
"Sometimes it hits you real hard when you're walking through the hotel and you don't see a soul. I can walk through the entire property and not see one human being."
"We handle more people, we handle more tickets. The money, if you take the first four days of the tournament, will surpass the handle on the Super Bowl."