An independent magazine for people who actually do the work.
gammonfrog covers casino floors, cruise ships, ports, and the careers that connect them. Written by working professionals, read by working professionals.
What this is
gammonfrog is the second of two sister sites — alongside dicefloor.com — covering the same beat for two different audiences. Same reporting, same interviews, same audio. Different voice on the page.
If you're 22 and on your first ship contract, this is the version we built for you. If you want the longer-form, more editorial read, that's at dicefloor.
What we cover
Casinos: the pit, the cage, the count room, careers, money, and how the work works.
Cruise: agencies, contracts, ships, what crew life is actually like month two.
Ports: what to do off the ship, on the actual budget you have.
Skills, hiring, how-to: the practical stuff. No filler.
Who writes this
A small group of current and former casino floor staff and cruise crew. Most of us are non native speakers. Drafts get edited by Claude for grammar and rhythm before publishing.
The judgment and reporting belong to us. If you read something that does not match what working on a floor or a ship is like, that is on us, not the editor.
Three things from the floor every Friday.
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