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I recently went to my first casino and I was playing blackjack on a table on my own (was quite late like 4am) someone joined the table and the dealer placed some chips on my side bet and main bet saying the person wanted to play with me. I didn’t know what the etiquette was here whether I gave him some chips to play with or not so just kept playing but felt bad. I looked online after for I should’ve done but found nothing. What should I have done? And is there anything else similar to this that I should know for my next casino visit?
I’ve never been to a casino but the way I read it is that the player who wants to play with you is betting that you will win, so is betting on your cards as well as you. So if you win he wins – no need to give him a share of your money. If you lose he loses so you haven’t got any money to give him 🙂 I have certainly never heard of any etiquette which states that you have to hand over your cash to a bystander – contrary to the view of the multitude of African Gentlemen who frequent certain bookmakers down in London and seem to feel that if a number comes in after they have shouted it out behind you that you owe them a percentage of your winnings 🙂
I am also not a fan of the raffles, the issue being is that it became a competition between broadcasters to see who could offer the most outrageous prizes, and what 18 year old is not going to want to win PS4 or an IPhone X and think its worth investing £20 – especially when the broadcaster announces only 10 people in the raffle – He wins £100 from his deposit and we have an addict created!)
I am with you regarding the raffles. For me, raffles should be unconditional. In other words, there should not be a requirement to join a casino and/or make a deposit. And in fairness to Steve, he has done such a raffle with the White Rabbit World Cup.
As to the point of somebody winning £100 from a deposit and becoming an addict, that is like saying that somebody buys a bottle of wine in the supermarket, enjoys it and therefore becomes an alcoholic. Alcohol, cigarettes and gambling can be addictive but not everybody that enjoys these vices becomes one.
understand your point of view, but I think gambling is slightly different – you can’t lose 6.5k in a night as one guy on here did! You can only drink so much alcohol and smoke so many cigarettes :-). Bottom line, anything that encourages any sort of harmful addiction has to be wrong – hence my dislike of the raffles
Dammit, i thought the Extra Chilli might stump some folks haha Well done mate and yeah, the spoiler thing you said i may well ask about, i will get some more pics up soon though
It nearly did, I had to open another slot first just to make sure I was right
I thought you would be in hiding after the Secrets of Stones Picks 🙂 I was sure there was a biggy coming with 4 scatters.
When did we all stop being responsible for our own actions?
I hate this nanny state bollocks, I hate that a small group can spend all their time trying to get certain You Tube Channels closed down because they don’t ‘agree’ with the content.
Yeah right, don’t agree or are quite sad and as jealous as fuck that others are having a little success on Social Media? I know where my money is going.
I watch The Bandit as he is funny, entertains me and is <span style=”font-size: 1rem;”>bloody d</span><span style=”font-size: 1rem;”>ecent bloke, if I choose to spunk £200 quid on the slots, then that is my decision, not The Bandits or Paul’s or Kim’s or Nick’s, END OF.</span>
You can choose to spend it where you want, hooray for personal choice. However, if someone dangles a carrot on a stick saying “Hey, you might win a grand off me if you sign up to this casino and spend a couple of quid” you might be a little more inclined to do something you DEFINITELY wouldn’t otherwise. Especially if you’re a compulsive gambler (sorry, EX gambler) with a proclivity towards being suckered in to gambling.
I guess this is the background to the Love/Hate relationship that many of us have with the Bandit. I enjoy his video’s, and totally understand that he needs to generate income to make them, affiliation is the way to do this – I am not a lover of his “Big Win” pages, these big wins are funded by people who have lost big, but the average punter may not realise this and think it is going to happen to them – as the bandit says “there is very little chance it will” . The majority of the really big wins shown by broadcasters have been at stakes the average man or woman cant afford. (Jimbo’s massive DOA was at £7.20 a spin – 12 spins at that stake would feed a family for a week!)
I am also not a fan of the raffles, the issue being is that it became a competition between broadcasters to see who could offer the most outrageous prizes, and what 18 year old is not going to want to win PS4 or an IPhone X and think its worth investing £20 – especially when the broadcaster announces only 10 people in the raffle – He wins £100 from his deposit and we have an addict created!)
Bottom line – love the bandits videos, mixed feelings about affiliation but really hate the raffles and the big win advertisements. We shouldn’t encourage people to sign up for gambling, and as for the argument that you have to search for gambling videos I have just watched a Slipknot Video and you tube has autoplayed Justin Bieber next as a suggestion – I may never recover from the trauma!
I’m still at a loss why he is still here?. He openly admitted he wants to see the bandit go up in flames so why stay on a site the bandit made?. Its like me as a Newcastle fan, saying I hate Sunderland but buy a season ticket to go watch them?.
Never put up a bad post and then found you can’t delete it 🙁 I do disagree with the Bandits approach to slots on you tube in some ways as I think posting big wins, offering free draws etc does have the potential to draw people in who otherwise may not have been brought into the gambling world, which I think we will all agree has more downs than ups, nevertheless I do enjoy his content. More importantly, Kudos to you for admitting to being a Newcastle Fan, that takes a level of bravery that I could never aspire to 🙂
Point taken and accepted – apologies, I just get slightly irritated when individuals lose money and start screaming that it’s someone else’s fault or complain thAt casinos are frauds and crooks because they have personally failed to read the terms and conditions. If we are old enough to gamble we should take responsibility for our own actions and also check what we are getting into :-). Will be more polite in future
I have enjoyed the Bandits videos but you make a valid point smellmacheese.
If someone broadcast a video of themselves doing Heroin twice a week and showing that it can be enormous fun, and then adding a link where you could have a go at it the stream would be down faster than you can shake a stick.
Gambling is an addiction like Heroin and can be just as harmful in the long run, it is just more invisible as you don’t have needle marks or the shakes.
Now as I say, I have enjoyed the videos but my personal view is that You Tube did the right thing. I have watched many of these and seen so many people posting that they have lost money, including one who lost £6.5k in one night after being inspired by the broadcasts – he was close to despair.
We don’t need videos of gambling on you tube which anyone can come across to make it look exciting to young minds, and we certainly don’t need to incentivise it with free raffles and big win posters. By all means the Bandit should keep broadcasting, but use this medium where his hard core fans can view them, don’t go out seeking the weak and easily influenced who might come across it by accident, see one of the big win videos and think its going to happen to them.
Notwithstanding the huge profits the Bandit has made its not smart and its not ethical, and I would hope when his young son grows up he will realise what harm can be done to immature minds whilst chasing financial gains. If someone got his son addicted to an item, be it drugs, alcohol or tobacco in order to make a profit, I feel sure he would be screaming foul and cursing the individual concerned,
Ah by Logan Paul has 10 million subscribers, the bandit has 22 thousand. Mr Paul has become too big in terms of you tube advertising links to lose – he is a blue whale to Bandits Minnow. He also promotes the sale of merchandise, which is different from doing affiliate raffles and promoting online gambling – the first is considered the second is not, in particular in the current atmosphere where governments are largely cracking down on gambling
New channel different name = building up subscribers from scratch again and changing format removing adverts and affiliate links – totally pointless as the point of the channel is to generate income – however I suspect the bandit has enough affiliate support to continue without you tube and can run his raffles on here
In all fairness you could say they are taking a moral stance. Bottom line is that the bandits videos, entertaining as they may be, not only promote gambling but actively encourage addictive behaviours by offering financial incentives.
As I said earlier- remove the links, remove the free raffles, remove the advertising and the videos won’t get removed
Do you tube advertise gambling, yep, but they get paid for it – where is there incentive to allow the bandit to do it?
babyface wrote:
” they will then be legal”
And when does youtube set the law? How is it illegal?
Its not illegal per se, but it breaches the terms and conditions which they set for broadcasting on their site.
It’s not actually illegal for me to walk through a clothes shop munching a sausage roll and drinking a can of pop, however the store specifically states that if I wish to enter I must leave those outside otherwise I will be evicted from the shop
Basically they own the site, they set the rules for inclusion. If you set up a broadcasting site and said no broadcasting in mankini’s, as the owner of the site you could evict the fat guy in the mankini even though he was breaching no laws 🙂
Oh noo!!! I was about to watch his new video but decided to have food first and when i got back on, boom, his channel was gone. I feel as though my heart was stolen from me. Youtube can suck my dick.
Don’t get too hopeful, with over 1 billion individual subscribers watching their videos each day you may be in a long queue for a dick sucking 🙂
To put this into perspective from viewing figures – there is a woman on here with channel who delivers a couple of 4 min videos each weeks where she swims around underwater with a tiny bikini and huge boobs. She has 300,000 subscribers.
Bandits 20,000 doesn’t even figure on you tubes radar from an impact perspective with probably around 2000-3000 views across the entire life of the videos
How is this even surprising. If you look at the You Tube Terms and conditions they say no advertising.or potentially harmful acts
The Bandit
Promotes online gambling
Advertises his own website
Advertises the website he is gambling on
Advertises half a dozen other casinos during the videos
Runs raffles on you tube.
He is breaking so many you tube rules I am only surprised it lasted this long. Eventually all streamers will go the same way, they became so prolific and spent so much time in competition with each other to offer bigger and bigger rewards to get people to sign up that it has now become a business. There is a crack down all round the world on this sort of stuff – Craig Slot and Jimbo will no doubt be next.
You have to ask whether you tube are wrong or not. By continually showing big wins and big win videos, screenshots etc this is promoting gambling, as is incentivising sign ups by offering entries into raffles with large cash prizes.
If this is purely for entertainment as the Bandit initially stated when he started up, remove the affiliate links, remove the raffles, remove the advertising and just broadcast – they will then be legal
Unless of course it’s all about the money 😉
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