Love love all the stories, thank you guys for sharing!
What I think is that Gambling is an entertainment.
I want to hear stories like:
I won $200 on January and save into the bank.
I won $1000 on February and save $800 into the bank
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On december I already have $20,000 in my savings bank, all gambling money. Thanks to the online casino!
Can this scenario be possible??
Yes, but not for too long. The industry would adapt and remove whatever edge was keeping you ahead.
Around 1989-1990, UK laws changed for fruit machines, and operators got the stake doubled to 20p, but the jackpot only went from £4 to £4.80 - the had to persuade players that 20p gave them twice the value, so many places jacked the RTP "sky high", from the usual 70% to 74%, places were offering 90%+. Many games were the old 10p ones tweaked, and the new 20p games brought in new features. Many of the game features were "true skill", but adapted to be hard or easy depending on how much the machine had paid recently. THEY GOT ABSOLUTELY HAMMERED by players like myself, who took "true skill" beyond the design limits and forced some machines to pay 100% or more. I once lived an entire year, everything, purely on the pound coins being extracted from our local centre, which as well as bowling and cinema, had over 70 of the "right kind of machine". They eventually adapted by banning all the best players, and soon after getting rid of most of the machines. Now they have 5 or 6 in the whole complex. I took to the roads, and eventually in around 1996 the industry ditched "true skill" in place of "pseudo skill", and rather than making the feature harder and easier, the software made it "true skill" until an arbitrary "block" was reached depending on past payounts, and at this point the feature would "cheat" and block even skilled players from completing it successfully.
This period of around 6 years is what I call "the golden age" of fruit machines, where you could make a profit purely by your skill at playing the bonus features, rather than having to have inside knowledge of bugs.
In 2004 I tried online, and looked for any elements of skill. There were none, but a new concept emerged, that of bonuses. Other than one Blackpool arcade giving out 60p in play tokens for every £5 changed into coins, I had not come across this before.
Whilst playing online, I hoped that one day they would introduce UK style fruit machines with the "true skill" based features. Whilst the UK style games have come, they have not really come with the element of skill that enabled the best players to win more.
When I win big online, it's a case of being on the right game at the right time, and doing it often enough to offset the deposits being made between wins. I have removed part of the bigger wins from gambling funds on a permanent basis by buying stuff. Investing may hold the money for a while, but it does again become available, and some of it could again find it's way into the casinos unless it gets spent on something else first.
One way to invest, but also remove the money permanently, is in a pension fund, but they have been discredited over recent years.
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