the only reason that there are so many pawn shops in vegas is because the people that lost everything of value in gambling are desperate to try one last time to be the lucky one! "it never happens"
it is a problem that gamblers have, when they have lost a lot of money, they start to think of mortgaging whatever they have,, and by that time they start to gamble irrationally. they will gamble with no longer thinking and spend it back .. because they gamble under pressure ,, and that's where the profits of the pawn shop