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#4530301 - 07/16/20 09:04 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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#4530306 - 07/16/20 10:19 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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#4530313 - 07/17/20 12:38 AM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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#4530452 - 07/18/20 07:31 AM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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Gambled once in my life. Friend was one of the managers at an Indian Casino. She gave me a card with like $20 starter amount. Told me I couldn't cash it out, I'd have to gamble it. I went in hit the "nickel slot machine". Well, $19 and change into it, I hit a $25 win. Walked out with the $25 and never looked back.

Left there after she exposed corruption that was going on between the casino and a few members of the tribal counsel.


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#4530962 - 07/22/20 02:53 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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Looking back over thread...always interesting to see old usernames long gone.

I'm in casinos all the time (well I was before the virus), been on many cruise ships, have a nice poker kit. Yet I've never gambled in my life that I recall (including never having played the lottery). No moral objections, just no interest. I wouldn't turn down a freebie, however.

My wife's aunt and uncle did it right, IMO. Once a week they'd gamble $50.00 on a Casino boat (Baton Rouge had two on the Mississippi River). IIRC, $50.00 was the minimum for a free buffet (known to be very good). They thought it was worth dinner and a couple of hours of entertainment (mostly slots, I think). And when they occasionally won something, they still stopped at their original $50.00. Smart.



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#4531057 - 07/23/20 05:14 AM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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Gambling is too much like giving cash away. I've never been into that.


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#4531063 - 07/23/20 07:34 AM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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Ages ago when I was a young fresh lad in Hong Kong me and a few mates would purchase return tickets to Macau, grab our passport, the equivalent of USD60~100 in cash each and off we would go for 24 hrs.
Never ever took our credit cards or cheque books with us, just the return tickets...

Our Macau sorties would usually have us ending up early at the ferry pier Macau side for our trip back, nothing to do, hungry, tired, sharing a pack of Marlboro and terribly short of cash hahaha
Rarely, one of us would get back with more cash in his pockets than he had when we left Hong Kong.
Never a life-changer, but always fun.

It’s all about blocking access to additional cash and, yes, keeping your kidneys where they naturally belong !

Oops, the thread is about online gambling, oh well, much more dangerous I reckon.

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#4531071 - 07/23/20 11:26 AM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: Mad Max]  
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Originally Posted by Mad Max
Gambling is too much like giving cash away. I've never been into that.



Just think of what would happen in places like Monaco and Las Vegas if hardly anyone gambled? They would have to find another industry to rely on and fast.


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#4531072 - 07/23/20 11:27 AM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: MarkG]  
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Originally Posted by MarkG
Looking back over thread...always interesting to see old usernames long gone.

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Yup, same here. I've been on SimHQ for 19 years now so it's always fascinating for me to see all the people who have come and gone. The ones who have passed away are especially poignant.


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#4537278 - 09/16/20 03:09 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: Nixer]  
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I totally agree with you! It is very easy to start to gamble, have fun and spend a lot of money on it and it is very hard to quit gambling or to learn ho to have more self control in order to count your money and to understand when you need to stop or to go on. Anyway, I'll better play games like poker or blackjack. There, I have much more chances to win because everything depends on my skill and not on my luck. Usually, I like to play on Link deleted and I suggest everybody to try it as well, because it is worth.


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#4537281 - 09/16/20 03:25 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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#4537282 - 09/16/20 03:42 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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I'd rather invest in the stock market than take my chances at a multi-shoe dealer table where the odds are manipulated to be in the house favor. Or a roulette wheel that could be magnetized, or electronic slots that are artificially manipulated, legally, by the algorithm flags inside and their placement in the casino.

#4537284 - 09/16/20 04:31 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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Andrew Avery, now what made you resurrect an old thread ?

Just asking to see that you are not a bot.


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#4537285 - 09/16/20 04:36 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard
Andrew Avery, now what made you resurrect an old thread ?

Just asking to see that you are not a bot.



I also found the location of Corinth, Greece to be odd. We all know we don't have any Greek members on SimHQ!


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#4537288 - 09/16/20 05:33 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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In recent times, we've seen a lot of these kind of users.

YvonneGrant, AngelaTurner, henrywalts, Office Work Design, grabdexter, Dasko, DVermont... Most have something to sell, but the intriguing ones dig up old threads for no apparent reason and vanish as quick as they came... Would love to see if this is AI or not smile

#4537294 - 09/16/20 06:27 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard
Andrew Avery, now what made you resurrect an old thread ?

Just asking to see that you are not a bot.

Im here, I am not a bot and I did't see the year of this thread haha, sorry man!

#4537295 - 09/16/20 06:28 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted by oldgrognard
Andrew Avery, now what made you resurrect an old thread ?

Just asking to see that you are not a bot.



I also found the location of Corinth, Greece to be odd. We all know we don't have any Greek members on SimHQ!


I often visit Greece, that's why.

#4537296 - 09/16/20 06:29 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: Vaderini]  
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Originally Posted by Vaderini
In recent times, we've seen a lot of these kind of users.

YvonneGrant, AngelaTurner, henrywalts, Office Work Design, grabdexter, Dasko, DVermont... Most have something to sell, but the intriguing ones dig up old threads for no apparent reason and vanish as quick as they came... Would love to see if this is AI or not smile

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#4537303 - 09/16/20 07:23 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: marko1231123]  
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Ok. That’s good and welcome aboard. Lots of good sub-forums and people to help you with issues. Community Hall is for anything you want to talk about except leave politics and controversy out of it. There is a sub-forum for that at the bottom of the list.

We’ve just been getting a number of bots coming on so we try to be sure.


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#4537386 - 09/17/20 12:00 PM Re: Online gambling is destroying people's lives. [Re: Andrew Avery]  
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Originally Posted by Andrew Avery
Originally Posted by oldgrognard
Andrew Avery, now what made you resurrect an old thread ?

Just asking to see that you are not a bot.

Im here, I am not a bot and I did't see the year of this thread haha, sorry man!



So what was it about this thread that piqued your interest enough to revive it? I mean, you must have had to click through quite a few pages of threads in order to have discovered it right?


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