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Hey, you. American. French. Israeli. Italian. Norwegian.
You're not allowed to play games online unless you play in the state lottery!

Great, so now what? Well, thankfully there are all these casinos that let me play anyway and in spite of your stupid laws! So take that, [country]! Anarchy! Pirate bay, isohunt rar yeahhhh!

Oh wait a sec. What are these companies that are letting me play online in spite of my country's laws against it? Aren't they breaking the ...

Not too long ago I buckled down and did the mid-year summary for the Pitch-A-Bitch section during which I noticed some interesting comparisons and contrasts to the same period last year. This is "man on the street" stuff but I think they're worthy topics for discussion:

• the trend for fewer, higher-value PAB issues continues. Many of the "pocket change" issues are simply not there this year. Not sure what that's about, perhaps people know the casinos have tightened up this year.

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As many of you know we spent last week at the ICE and LAC conferences in London. As ever these were great events and well worth the time spent. Sadly it was the last year for ICE at Earl's Court -- VERY convenient location -- and apparently next year we will be exiled to ExCel which appears to be 40 km out into who knows where. But hey, maybe it'll be magical.

What news from ICE? Well a few things, not the least of which is that I finally managed to get some inside scoop on what's ...

I'm not a big gamblers these days. Years gone by I was heavily into it. It went far beyond losing my own money. I was a pubic hair away from being a multi-milliionaire. Trading in options, not a good idea. To cut a long story short I ended up sleeping in friends & family's living rooms, if I was lucky I got a fold out bed.

from my knowledge in banking I secured a mortgage. I will fight for that with my life, yesterday, they withdrew the decree against my house.

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So here it is. My first trip to a real B&M casino.

We arrived at Turning Stone around noonish, and decided to gamble before checking into our room. I brought with me $300 (I generally play between 40c and $1, but even only taking $300 was optomistic).

I was murdered my first few games, $20, $20, $20... nothing, nothing, nothing. So I sat down at my nemesis, Stinkin' Rich (100 lines, 1c/line.. $1 a spin). I always.. ALWAYS get killed on this slot. But the ...