Experiences with gambling niche?

How hard is the gambling niche? I have a pretty nice aged domain with decent authority. I enjoy gambling and recently have seen how much money there is in the business. How hard is this niche? Is it possible to carve a nice income for yourself without much link building? I mostly want to focus on creating content.

One of the hardest niches available, your definately not going to make it with content alone. Prepare for a shitload of linkbuilding if you want to compete

Of course you can if you target the right keywords. I know people who are killing it with local gambling sites.

Learn proper keyword research, find some easy keywords and start from there.

Gambling is definitely lucrative. Start low and slowly build up rankings and you'll see results. Don't bother with the big money keywords yet.