But we are not talking about prohibition or outlawing gambling. Simply the possible reduction of a max bet on online slots to £2. They are simply not comparable and your point makes no sense in the context of this thread.
Good grief Chopley is soooo square and goodie goodie, I can't imagine what you must be like to be around we must regulate everything because people can't be trusted. Lighten up Chopley try and enjoy life not fight it all the time.
but he advocates regulation; it's just back a bit >
Australia is the best example too much regulation.
Totally agree the usual insane comparisons come about when anything gambling related is mentioned.
This is a good suggestion. Forcing the player to set their limits on a new site before they can deposit or gamble is a good way of making them aware of how much money they are comfortable spending in order to make gambling more of an enjoyable past-time and reinforcing the message that gambling is just a means of buying entertainment. This along with affordability checks should mean that the player is free to spend their money how they like within those predefined limits. If they want to do 500 spins on autoplay, play 4 slots at once or use a turbo play or feature buy option, they should be able to, again within the limits that they themselves have consciously set and know they need to adhere to. The UKGCC should be enabling people to limit how much money they can spend, not how they go on and spend it.
Agree, but when a non player of slots sees a streamer playing £20 stakes with unlimited match bonus’s
we can live in hope. Certainly watching certain affiliates and the stakes they play at won’t of gone down well with the powers that be.
The fun him will come to a end deposits and losses like that are just not sustainable no matter how much money he has...Only 60k?
Must have been one of his low-stakes videos then.
He is like the poster boy for irresponsible gambling.
His videos where he chases tops on Reel king are nuts.
Often goes 10-30k deep, and just keeps depositing and making 20k all or nothing gambles.
Ban low RTP and reverse withdrawals, go easy on taxes (only a tax on net income), max bet 1% of balance, RTP shown on opening a game.
That is all the new regulations you need.
You need a lot more on financial markets and banks though! Its all gambling and its all rigged too.
And destroys everybody, not only the ones that play. I lost more than 100k after the 2008 crisis and not because of investments going bad. Simply lost income because of the austerity that followed.
He’s actually a nice guy, spoke to him a few times. His wealth also comes from non affy and streaming ways I believe, granted now he’s popular it helps, but he earned money a different way before all this cancerous streaming crap
I enjoy depositing £20 and low rolling lots of the time. In fact my only ever wildline on DOA 1 or 2 came from a low rolling deposit.
Only 60k?
Must have been one of his low-stakes videos then.
He is like the poster boy for irresponsible gambling.
His videos where he chases tops on Reel king are nuts.
Often goes 10-30k deep, and just keeps depositing and making 20k all or nothing gambles.
luckily for me I wasn't drinking a cup of tea at the time.
I'm a bit of a aficionado of the bandit having watched about 95% of his vids, I lost touch when he was banned from youtube and instead uploaded the vids on his website. Mostly he seems to up the stake to get a recovery, so say he's deposited a grand and lost it doing £2 spins, then he redeposits and ups the stake to a £5 or tenner.
The reel king ladder seemed to be his cash cow other than on a few occasions when it turned bad, I think after the last blowout a fortnight ago he swore never to play it again, don't know if he'll stick to that idea, I hope he does, because a) I think it'll rob back all the money off him plus some if he gives it a chance and b) it is the least entertaining part of his compilation vids, it quickly becomes really hardcore gambling.
All the bandit humour goes out the window, like a life or death situation which I can understand when you're staring at a 30k+ loss suffered from a few hours playing, with few realistic options/ways to win it back. suck up the loss or possibly dig a bigger hole.
Then when the ukgc recently banned bonus buys that's also cut off one of his avenues for a quick recovery, buying a £2,000 bonus on a megaways clone, often he seemed to do well out of those.
Last week his vid was entirely low stakes, under a £1 I think, and he still lost the best part of £1,000. That's another thing with the bandit he doesn't have the reload bonuses streamers get, occasionally he seems to have some remnants of a loyalty bonus to play with.
I've noticed he has been getting a bit grouchy recently, on twitter and some of the vids etc.. I get the feeling he doesn't really need to do the videos anymore but having built up a loyal following, 43.8k subscribers, feels he should keep the show on the road [nickslots has 33k, 'let's give it a spin' also around 30k. And they do far more videos and streams than the bandit, but his humour always set him apart and above most of the 'streamers' for me....]
Dunover cracked me up today on his latest vid, I'm about 3/4 the way through, I won't repeat the joke for fear of a pc ban but it related to the usefulness of a certain sanitary product
This whole £2 limit proposal wasn’t helped by the likes of those you mention mate.I'm a bit of a aficionado of the bandit having watched about 95% of his vids, I lost touch when he was banned from youtube and instead uploaded the vids on his website. Mostly he seems to up the stake to get a recovery, so say he's deposited a grand and lost it doing £2 spins, then he redeposits and ups the stake to a £5 or tenner.
The reel king ladder seemed to be his cash cow other than on a few occasions when it turned bad, I think after the last blowout a fortnight ago he swore never to play it again, don't know if he'll stick to that idea, I hope he does, because a) I think it'll rob back all the money off him plus some if he gives it a chance and b) it is the least entertaining part of his compilation vids, it quickly becomes really hardcore gambling.
All the bandit humour goes out the window, like a life or death situation which I can understand when you're staring at a 30k+ loss suffered from a few hours playing, with few realistic options/ways to win it back. suck up the loss or possibly dig a bigger hole.
Then when the ukgc recently banned bonus buys that's also cut off one of his avenues for a quick recovery, buying a £2,000 bonus on a megaways clone, often he seemed to do well out of those.
Last week his vid was entirely low stakes, under a £1 I think, and he still lost the best part of £1,000. That's another thing with the bandit he doesn't have the reload bonuses streamers get, occasionally he seems to have some remnants of a loyalty bonus to play with.
I've noticed he has been getting a bit grouchy recently, on twitter and some of the vids etc.. I get the feeling he doesn't really need to do the videos anymore but having built up a loyal following, 43.8k subscribers, feels he should keep the show on the road [nickslots has 33k, 'let's give it a spin' also around 30k. And they do far more videos and streams than the bandit, but his humour always set him apart and above most of the 'streamers' for me....]
Dunover cracked me up today on his latest vid, I'm about 3/4 the way through, I won't repeat the joke for fear of a pc ban but it related to the usefulness of a certain sanitary product
]
Bandit made fortunes with match betting over the years, slots are a sideline to him, and as said in another comment spoke with the guy a few times and he’s a decent sort.The thing with most of the streamers they made winning look easy, and were/are putting on an act of amazement with the huge wins, which if they play as much as they do [and the casino funding half of it] they are bound to get at some point. It's a kind of a deceptive performance to my mind, in order to best milk the public unexperienced in gambling and slots.
People getting angry with slots like dunover today, really angry, and then making jokes and humour off that back of it, is much more enjoyable for me than watching nickslots hold his head in his hands saying 'I don't believe it, it's still going' while watching a big win roll in for the umpteenth time.
I wouldn't put the bandit in the frame for the £2 limit coming in, I'd say 75% of his vids, at least, have been losing ones, especially the first two years [not sure how long he's been going for, 3-4 years
Whereas on the streamer channels probably 80% of vids are winning sessions/compilations, that's the issue, the unrealistic portrayal of constantly winning and making it look easy.
Hypalinx, dunover and chopley are the main ones I watch now alongside the bandit, [although his vids are not what they were, which is understandable given how long he's been doing them for and the jaded with slots process is bound to occur] all the rest I find cheesy, smug and fake.
The bandit has got a steely, business side to him, I've seen that in some of his replies to folk, it's much more apparent now after he's built up his successful ventures, but there is something about his best videos, the rapport he creates with the viewer even though when he's doing it, he's talking to himself, not many can do that as well as he did.
and watching his big win [i think it was on dhv but could have that wrong, nb. just remembered it was the high voltage bonus] and his response was definitely not fake or smug, the key ingredient for me is 'can I relate to this' what I'm watching and with most of the streamers and pro slot youtubers I can't.
The thing with most of the streamers they made winning look easy, and were/are putting on an act of amazement with the huge wins, which if they play as much as they do [and the casino funding half of it] they are bound to get at some point. It's a kind of a deceptive performance to my mind, in order to best milk the public unexperienced in gambling and slots.
People getting angry with slots like dunover today, really angry, and then making jokes and humour off that back of it, is much more enjoyable for me than watching nickslots hold his head in his hands saying 'I don't believe it, it's still going' while watching a big win roll in for the umpteenth time.
I wouldn't put the bandit in the frame for the £2 limit coming in, I'd say 75% of his vids, at least, have been losing ones, especially the first two years [not sure how long he's been going for, 3-4 years
Whereas on the streamer channels probably 80% of vids are winning sessions/compilations, that's the issue, the unrealistic portrayal of constantly winning and making it look easy.
Hypalinx, dunover and chopley are the main ones I watch now alongside the bandit, [although his vids are not what they were, which is understandable given how long he's been doing them for and the jaded with slots process is bound to occur] all the rest I find cheesy, smug and fake. [I should say the main well known channels, interlog for example doesn't come across to me as suffering from those traits, there are probably some other good ones out there too but I tend to prefer watching the hour long compliation/gameplay vids than 3-4 hr streams]
The bandit has got a steely, business side to him, I've seen that in some of his replies to folk, it's much more apparent now after he's built up his successful ventures, but there is something about his best videos, the rapport he creates with the viewer even though when he's doing it, he's talking to himself, not many can do that as well as he did.
are there no lower stake options on Grand spinn?
Don't forget 1p spins on cleopatra, I had to resort to those earlier, if two scatters land you then get the mind blowing sum of 2p
4p spins seems a bit hasty to me
The audience will be on the edge of their seats with this new type of slot streaming.
When I first started playing slots I mostly played wms spartacus at 10-20p, I thought 50p for 100 lines was las vegas style high rolling, if I won a fiver off a 20p spin I was over the moon, it soon changes as you venture onto more games and experience bigger losses, very much a slippery slope
I like that out of all the dodgy people and rogues you chose me hahaha
Thanks for being a fan mate means a lot
