Walk through the Tenderloin and you’ll see them often: Flashy, colorful slot machines in corner stores next to racks of chips and candy bars, a row of people hunched over them. Or at least, you’ll hear the fevered clicking emanating from the back of the neighborhood shops as players hope to win big.
Now, the city’s cracking down.
Over just the past year, nearly one in five Tenderloin mini-marts and smoke shops have been searched and raided for hosting illegal gambling machines, according to records from the San Francisco Police Department…