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<div class="IPBDescription">Poker Machines are the devil</div> I just got off work. The time is currently 5:30am. It took me an hour to drive home.
Do you know why I had to work as Doorman till 4:30am this morning? Because 15 people have a gambling problem. I say that will all sincerity. If you are playing on a Poker Machine after midnight or you turn up to a club to play a Poker Machine after midnight, I do not care what your frickin excuse is, you have a gambling problem and you are a complete and utter moron and a plague upon society.
That's not to say stupidity is without some merits. Why by having gambling addicts constantly putting money into my club, it can help fund local sporting teams and other needy charitable corporations. It also means I get paid, not that I'm complaining too much on that point because stupidity is a very lucrative business.
I have watched people constantly going up to the ATM in the front foyer to get $100, 200 out of it and putting it straight through the machines and do you know what the best part is? I have a Responsible Conduct of Gambling certificate which means I can tell you right now that you are better off not even stepping into a club to play the Poker Machines. The odds are so far stacked against you it's not funny. I do machine reads on the occasional shifts, so I get to see how many times the Grand Jackpot has gone off. An amputee could count the number of times it's gone off. I can even see the percentage chance you have of setting it off. It's close to 0.00000000000008% (That's a true statistic)
So even though I know you have a fair chance of losing your money, and even though I have been adequately trained. I cannot go up to you at 4am in the frickin morning and tell you that you have a gambling problem. The law stops me from doing so. Yet I can tell you, you have an alcohol problem...
And do you know why I will never be able to go up to someone and HELP them?
Because the government makes <b>far</b> too much money off of problem gamblers to help them. The schemes they have out to help problem gamblers are utter bulls***. If they really wanted to help them, they would require giant billboards stating "GAMBLING IS AN ADDICTION. SEEK HELP" outside every Poker Machine area so every patron would have to look at it before they entered...
God I hate gamblers. The fact I pity the hell out of them, but can't say a thing annoys me no end. The government is simply a collective of deaf ears...
So the next time you're in a club at 3:30 in the goddam morning, give yourself a slap upside the head and stop playing the poker machines. If you're that desperate to win some money, play the lotto. The odds are far greater.
Do you know why I had to work as Doorman till 4:30am this morning? Because 15 people have a gambling problem. I say that will all sincerity. If you are playing on a Poker Machine after midnight or you turn up to a club to play a Poker Machine after midnight, I do not care what your frickin excuse is, you have a gambling problem and you are a complete and utter moron and a plague upon society.
That's not to say stupidity is without some merits. Why by having gambling addicts constantly putting money into my club, it can help fund local sporting teams and other needy charitable corporations. It also means I get paid, not that I'm complaining too much on that point because stupidity is a very lucrative business.
I have watched people constantly going up to the ATM in the front foyer to get $100, 200 out of it and putting it straight through the machines and do you know what the best part is? I have a Responsible Conduct of Gambling certificate which means I can tell you right now that you are better off not even stepping into a club to play the Poker Machines. The odds are so far stacked against you it's not funny. I do machine reads on the occasional shifts, so I get to see how many times the Grand Jackpot has gone off. An amputee could count the number of times it's gone off. I can even see the percentage chance you have of setting it off. It's close to 0.00000000000008% (That's a true statistic)
So even though I know you have a fair chance of losing your money, and even though I have been adequately trained. I cannot go up to you at 4am in the frickin morning and tell you that you have a gambling problem. The law stops me from doing so. Yet I can tell you, you have an alcohol problem...
And do you know why I will never be able to go up to someone and HELP them?
Because the government makes <b>far</b> too much money off of problem gamblers to help them. The schemes they have out to help problem gamblers are utter bulls***. If they really wanted to help them, they would require giant billboards stating "GAMBLING IS AN ADDICTION. SEEK HELP" outside every Poker Machine area so every patron would have to look at it before they entered...
God I hate gamblers. The fact I pity the hell out of them, but can't say a thing annoys me no end. The government is simply a collective of deaf ears...
So the next time you're in a club at 3:30 in the goddam morning, give yourself a slap upside the head and stop playing the poker machines. If you're that desperate to win some money, play the lotto. The odds are far greater.
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But like you said, stupidity is a lucrative business, and to many people they're following a motto of "screw people, I want the money".
I didn’t spend a cent. I honestly don’t see the point of gambling.
They all lost about $5-10 each, on keno and on the pokies. I thought it was fscking stupid but I smiled and kept happy. It’s their decision and I don’t want to wreck their fun.
I came out pretty sombre though, after seeing row upon row of people… sitting there… pushing a button over and over and over until their money is gone. Then they sit up, look around, glance at their watch, then head over to the change desk for another bucket of coins.
Really pathetic.
--Scythe--
A gaming addiction limits itself to a few people.
A gambling addiction hurts the entire family, friends, workmates, even ones life.
There are stories of people whittling away hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not idle rich people either, these are in some cases disability pay meant to last their entire life.
Problem gamblers screw themselves and everyone around them in the process. That is what makes it a plague on society.
And as Cronos says, gamblers hurt the ones around them.
Not only did I win more often than lose, I was able to walk away when I decided I'd won enough/lost enough for the evening.
Its an addiction like any other. Just because they're addicted to the endorphin rush they get from a win, their disease is as worthy of pity as alcoholics, drug addicts etc.