takethemoney" I have replaced my online gaming with driving an hour to a land based casino. I never have a losing trip for more than 3/4 visits. It's sad that people have gotten disillusioned enough to think that 32 losses in a row is acceptable casino play. As I too came to realize, these days it's not even gambling anymore, it's merely throwing your money away. What a waste!
I , too , have given online a wide berth due to the relentless losses at ALL casinos...I still dabble here and there but not in the way as much as I once used to.
When someone says: I made xx-xxx amount of deposits withut a hint of a win ...think about it people, really think about it...I did, I thought about it, and I came to the same realization as TTM above. (Shortened your name, hope you won't be offended).
Playing online and making numerous deposits/losses is so easy to ignore and then to blame everything under the sun is happening and that is why you aren't winning...but if your friend went to a landbased casino 32 times in a row..what would you say to THEM? I mean c'mon, own up to it...NO ONE goes to a casino more than a few times without coming home with money.
I have been doing it since I was legal, over 30 years ago...but once I started playing online, I began to accept more losses. Why?
Because I was told this is the normal...well people IT AIN"T normal..no matter how much others want to sugar coat it, including the reps, the casinos and others on this forum...it ISN"T normal to go more than a few deposits at ANY casino..ask yourself again, just what would you have said to this so called friend when they told you they have lost the last 32 times they went to the casino...really think about that...
Because this is what has been shoved down our throats, into our minds by many, that it is NORMAL...well, it ISN"T...My longest deposit of losses at any 1 casino was over 102 deposits at an accredited casino and I was told...it was a bad run...and that is when it slapped me upside my head of how stupid it was to believe something such as this from someone wanting my money..
I mean really...yes, that was the day the lightbulb went off for me..Hopefully many others will start refusing to accept this unnatural occurrence and force these casino back to what was a normal thing and that was a few deposits, a few withdrawals..balancing out..If someone told me that the payout was set at 98%, I would say you are dreaming...because you cannot have a setting such as this with so many losers..and I would have to say "prove it" because I can prove a lot more are losing than winning so where does that leave the 98%...That, my friends is the true joke on us..
I, too have gone back to landbased casinos and have come home with money on my last 3 trips...why? Because now THAT is NORMAL.
Nisobar: Gambling should be treated as sheer entertainment, not as a means of producing income
That's hogwash. You can make a win at gambling. THAT is the ultimate reason we gamble...is to WIN and if you say otherwise, then just send me your money since you are not there to "WIN" and I can "entertain" you a lot better than a casino slot ...
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