I can only reiterate, your sad arse poor people need to gamble to make an honest days living.
I indicated to Household Chef that he have a night off cooking and we would go to the pub, The Elsternwick. He gratefully accepted the offer. We scrutinised the menu to find cheap meals and as usual I chose the Senior's sirloin steak with pepper sauce, salad and chips for $18. R had the Senior's chicken schnitzel for the same price.
Pre dinner I think R had lost $10 at the pokie machines and I had lost $5. After dinner I gave
R my gambling ticket with a $15 credit as I was bored with gambling and told him to take it down to $10 or if he got it up to $30, take the money. My motto is double or nothing.
I sat outside for a while and then re-entered. R's machine was doing something. He told me to click things on the screen that came up. It's your money, as he said. I went to click on the screen in an instinctive place and then changed. Each time the selection came up, I did the same, that is not click where my first instinct went. Some scrolling display began spinning upwards to about $950. I said to R, that is some kind of jackpot we could win. He replied, I am speechless.
We had won $950. Divided that is $475 each for fifteen or so minute's labour. That has more than covered any of my previous gambling losses.
If you are a poor poverty stricken pensioner, you really need to step up and not be such a burden on society and invest your pension money into these gambling machines to become wealthy and not need a pension. We play rarely but if you did so daily, I reckon you could become a millionaire. But the too lazy to gamble poor will always be with us.
Impressive - and proof that you do indeed have to be in it to win it. I doubt I have put $10 into the pokies in my life (and don't buy lotto or lottery tickets either). Do you have plans for your windfall?
ReplyDeleteEC, indeed you do but the odds are slim. I am in front overall but R is not. I refuse to play more than $10 per time. The funds will go to a very special fund known as consolidated revenue.
DeleteThe gambling industry is a series of trap in loops to capture the vulnerable population. But the pepper steak seems quite a good price in this day and age. Hope the portion is decent
ReplyDeleteRoentare, it is fine if you play small time, but for some it takes a terrible hold. Five minutes and I start to get bored.
DeleteCongratulations, walk away while you are ahead. MGM built a casino across the river from us (3 miles away.) I go maybe three times a year, and my limit is $20, when that is gone, so am I, if I get $10 ahead, I cash out and come home. Parking is free, it is a good place to walk inside on a cold winter day. It is entirely smoke free - that makes it a lot easier these days.
ReplyDeleteTravel, I do take the money and walk away. Money is too hard to come by. You have exactly the right and sensible way to gamble...and you never know how you may get lucky. Except for the VIP area at the Casino, you can't smoke at all in ours in out state, but I think it is different in other states.
DeleteI picked up $100 while waiting for breakfast in Deadwood South Dakota one morning, it was like the second spin and it paid out.
DeleteI would rather be poor than use poker machines, they are for mindless fools . You suggest even with humour that poor pensioners should go down this idiotic path is completely insulting and offensive .
ReplyDeleteAlways Anon. "Satire: the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues."
DeleteOh dear, Andrew. You have ruffled some feathers!
ReplyDeleteI dutifully contribute to the retirement fund on our infrequent visits to the local pub. I am assuming that when it gets big enough the machine will return our investments with interest!
Is the Grant's a purchase with your winnings?
Caro, I do at times. I stand by what I wrote. I can't remember the name of your local. B something. No, even I could not drink that much Scotch in the hour we were home and I took the photo.
DeleteBarettas aka The Langy Pub!
DeleteLangy Pub sounds better to me.
DeleteThat would be the walking distance pub Tradie Brother was once banned from.
DeleteYou can keep that advice to yourself! I see too many people heading to the nearest pokies room on pension days and then eking out what's left of their money for the rest if the fortnight. I don't go to the pokies myself, but I have gambled too much on Lotto, with the losses outranking the wins by about 97%, so next year that money is staying in the bank! By the end of 2023, I may have enough to fly over and visit my brother in Fremantle again.
ReplyDeleteRiver I hand over $17 a fortnight to R for Lotto. It is usual that we win a somewhat less than that per fortnight. We had a decent win of a few hundred dollars in about 1992. Lotto has probably the worst odds. I suppose the air fares are high now, but hopefully will drop next year. I think you would really like to make that trip.
DeleteThat's so funny. Except---congratulations on such a huge win! That part was not funny, just awesome! I'm one of those lazy retirees, who just won't make the trip out to the casino and play the one armed bandits. What a loser I be.
ReplyDeleteNever mind Strayer. You have to remain a responsible person for the sake of the cats.
DeleteDarn! I want to be a winner, spin those wheels, throw my money down, cut loose!
DeleteTo bet on a poker machine, you may as well give the casino owners your bank details and tell them to help themselves to your cheque account.
ReplyDeleteBetting is only fun if the gambler knows enough to make a reasonable guess about who might win an event - tennis, cricket, football, horses, greyhounds etc. The bet could still well lose, but at least it is not suicidal.
Hels, generally you are right. People brag of their wins but not their losses, just as they used to with horse race betting. As I remarked earlier, I am now in front as I put so little in whereas R is minorly behind because he puts more in. You are right about educated gambling though. The odds are much better.
DeleteCongratulations to the gamblers ! That's nice to stop in the right moment. I love to play Roulette but I am very careful I am not a gambler at all. Rick never played because he was a gambler and couldn't stop ! I gave him always what I had won and he would loose it then ! I just read your post below about Christmas and was suddenly happy to have a mini family, I don't support so many people anymore. Today is the last year of this awful 2022
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment Gattina. I hope 2023 is kinder to you. But you have done well, all the same.
Deleteand we have 14°C instead of below 0° and a strong wind which blew my advent wreath away !! Have a very happy new Year and a good health that's very important !
ReplyDelete14 is not bad at all. That is a cold winter day for us. Happy New Year.
DeleteOh yes, I always think of those flashing gambling machines as free money sources. It makes me wonder why anybody ever bothers to work when we have such easy access to free cash. Seriously though - Excellent News!
ReplyDeleteYP, mass earnings from gambling machines is complicated, but you can just get lucky as we did. I don't feel any richer.
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ReplyDeleteWell that's exciting! Enjoy it because it will probably never happen again. :)
ReplyDeleteSteve, indeed it probably won't. Sometimes having a low boredom threshold can be useful.
DeleteFor some reason the gambling gene didn't grab me even though I worked in the gambling industry for a while and (I know - judgy me) classified the players as suckers.) I've hung around casinos too with gambling brothers. I refused to invest my own coin so they had to subsidize my bored self plugging their money into machines. I never buy tickets, etc. I look at the odds and the awful tragedies around gambling and thank the stars I'm not afflicted.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah lucky you ahead of yourself :)
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M, it does seem like it is a gene thing to me and I just don't have it either and so I really don't understand gambling addiction, although other addictions make sense to me.
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