mudslinging was to patti, she accused me of working for a casino.
and yes i've played 32v, but it's not near as disreputable as the epic of cloud, curran, crystal and friends. they've recently been called the biggest assholes in the history of online gambling. 32v just bonus-ban whores and give random sketchy bonuses, and their sister site gave me a chance before banning. and i don't remember them deliberately screwing players, fabricating reasons to lock/seize, or slow-paying. plus, their live chat is available in english now lmfao!
yes i go after bonuses, but i do follow their terms to the letter, and i don't try to breach the rules in any way. bonuses are offered to entice deposits and play. believe me if casinos didn't offer bonuses, i would not be playing right now. attractive, competitive bonuses will draw business.
would you deliberately shop at a grocery store that never offered sales/coupons? is it wrong to maximize your savings by stocking up on sale items? or to hit up different grocery stores to get the best deal on many items?
as for my comments on the US legislation bit, i just meant to undertake a particularly LARGE bonus that you know will take many hours to clear and won't be credited until after you've wagered it all. and player was not forced to play poker, as he had every right to cash out at any time. the notion of sunk costs dictates that money spent/lost should not bear on a future spending decision.
when US players were banned, and poker was offered as the only way to complete the bonus, no one held a gun/club/SARS to his head and demanded he continue to meet the wr. player's balance at that point was between 700-800 i believe at that time, and this is not insignificant. that is money you can do something with, and it makes little sense to keep throwing money into what is a losing/volatile proposition.
if you are going after littlewoods free 25 quid monthly, and you lose, say, 50 pounds and have only cleared 15% of the wr, it's not unreasonable to just quit for fear you will lose even more and since the 25 pounds won't even cover what you've already lost. or you enter a poker tournament with rebuys and you find yourself terribly outclassed no matter what table you're at, then when you bust it doesn't make sense to rebuy just because the field is smaller than when it started. or you begin working on a government project, and unforeseen anomalies cause your estimate to skyrocket or public support to decline. you will pack up and scrap the project.
or perhaps you send your country to war, and you start realising to complete your task will require hundreds of times what you expected. yes, gwb, you need to cut and run, staying the course is just throwing money at something that won't ever be fixed. trillions of dollars wasted, no definite end in sight, and no reason to continue being there (not to mention how further lives are being pointlessly spent as well - troops, civilians, even militants who just want the US out and would be productive citizens were they left alone). accept it as a loss, but quit dumping money into a negative expectation.
