How Casinos Enable Gambling Addicts

[Milano]

You really are very asinine. Why do you even bother to post? To troll?

Wooah. Easy on the personal attacks bro. Kindly observe his safe space.

 

[Rouxenator]

You really are very asinine. Why do you even bother to post? To troll?

Because it seems we as humankind conveniently choose to ignore the first law of nature : Survival of the fittest. Addictions are a weakness. Die.

 

[konfab]

Because it seems we as humankind conveniently choose to ignore the first law of nature : Survival of the fittest. Addictions are a weakness. Die.

 

[Jase]

Wooah. Easy on the personal attacks bro. Kindly observe his safe space.

His safe space is in an Opel!

 

[Cray]

Modern slot machines develop an unbreakable hold on many players—some of whom wind up losing their jobs, their families, and even, as in the case of Scott Stevens, their lives.
Rest in link. Scary stuff.

Eish, listening to him explain exactly what his family needed to do to avoid being burdened with his debts, all the while planning to kill himself -chilling.

 

[Rouxenator]

His safe space is in an Opel!

Only for the lack of good 407 coupes in my area.

 

[The_Ogre]

I think the casinos doing everything legally possible to increase usage of their facilities is simply good business, no?

Yeah, but things like this should be illegal.

Virtual reel mapping has also enabled a deliberately misleading feature, the “near miss.” That’s when a jackpot symbol appears directly above or below the payline. The intent is to give the player the impression of having almost won—when, in fact, he or she is no closer to having won than if the symbol had not appeared on the reel at all.

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Yet another feature made possible by virtual reel mapping is the uneven distribution of winning symbols among virtual reels, known as “starving reels.” For instance, a 7 may come up four times on the first virtual reel and five times on the second but only once on the third. The first two reels are thus much more likely to hit a 7 than the last one, but you wouldn’t know this by looking at the physical reels. Just as the craps player expects the dice to be numbered 1 to 6 and the blackjack player expects the dealer to use conventional decks of 52 cards, it’s natural for the slot-machine player to expect equal odds on each of the reels, says Roger Horbay, a former gambling-addiction therapist and an expert on electronic gaming machines

That's deceptive and pure profiteering; and why the practice was outlawed in Australia and NZ.

 

[Dan C]

He is 52 and she is 23 with three daughters :erm:

 

[The_Ogre]

He is 52 and she is 23 with three daughters :erm:

They're married for 23 years

 

[GoneWithTheWindows]

He is 52 and she is 23 with three daughters :erm:

Read again. She is his wife of 23 years.