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Different strokes and all that eh Haz. It reminds me of the late 90s browser war where some peeps were Netscape extremists while the others were IE hardliners!
So for me, being a £50 guy both online and offline, I’m dropping the offline bit as it was £50 lost on almost every occasion on a weekly basis since the Autumn statement and it wasn’t bringing me entertainment any more. Whereas with online, I make an overall loss but only at a relatively small loss and I’m still finding it fun, so I am keeping with online as the lesser of the 2 evils 🙂
The problem is, now that I have a bit of spare cash again, I’ll blow it on other addictive stuff like phones and other tech!
Nice one Haz 🙂
I had to do similar except that it wasn’t online gambling. It was the £500 arcade slots instead, so I had to fill in the forms etc to get myself excluded from the local adult gaming centres. I was never a degenerate, but things had to stop as I wasn’t seeing much disposable income since last year’s Autumn statement. What gets me is that it wasn’t the category of gambling that Theresa May was targeting (£500 slots). She was meant to be targeting those bookies table games (blackjack, roulette etc).
I’ve done online gambling for a few years though (Video Slots and Royal Panda) with limits imposed and I’ve never had a problem with those. That’s because when the monthly money is gone, it’s gone, and I’m not tempted to take those limits off. The other thing is not to sign up to a 3rd site, because if I do, then where does it stop?
1Can someone please tell me how to use image upload? Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t.
102% playing on Video Slots for a year, with my highest and lowest games below.
For my other site though, Royal Panda, I’m well down! I don’t think that Panda provides the overall RTP though?
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Happy birthday Geordie 🙂
As for age milestones, 18 is young. 21 is still young as well. I didn’t mind turning 25 either. Turning 30 is “ok” but pushing it. Turning 35 was what crossed the line for me because satisfaction surveys get me to tick the age bracket e.g. 15-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54 and so on, and so by turning 35, I have to tick the next box up. Now I’m 40, it’s downhill. Yes they say that life starts at 40, but I think my best days are over.
1There have been a few mentions of £4.80 and £6 jackpots. They were before my time, so does anyone have any information (year numbers etc) on historic jackpots?
I remember £10 in the late 90s, then it moved up to £15 in late 1998. Pretty sure it was then because I started university in late 1998 and the changeover from £10 to £15 happened around then. £25 was early 2002 and £35 was early 2007.
Reference Deal or No Deal in the post above this post, I think the idea was ok for the first couple of years. What Bellfruit basically did was they took one of their previous Bellfruit (or Mazooma) machines and added the Deal feature to it:
Take The Piece + Deal = Classic 4-reeler
Monopoly 2003 + Deal = Can You Beat The Banker
The Royale Banker + Deal = The Dream Factory
Getting Ziggy With It + Deal = What’s In Your Box
Any Games Media (e.g. Juggling Jackpots) + Deal = The Power Five
In 2009, was no longer early days for Deal machines. The jackpot doubled to £70 and the Deal machines and non-Deal machines started going downhill.
1Bonus buys tend to be pretty poor on most slots in my opinion. E.g. Fat Santa, Book of Gods, Extra Chilli, Machina, Spinal Tap, Temple of Treasure and Vikings Unleashed.
The exception (again in my opinion) is White Rabbit, where a poor feature will usually return at least 50% of your bonus buy and thus will keep you going for that little bit longer.
1) The 100k Drop
2) Raging Rhino
3) Captain Venture / Lucky Lady’s Charm
My 3 picks are for the same reason as Mondayblues23 i.e. I just don’t find them very exciting to watch. So I’m not talking about big losses which is Eye of Horus’s territory!
1I’ll see if I can upload the full image, although I seem to have problems uploading images onto BIAM it seems.
I should have read the replies first, but I stuck the image into Tin Eye first and indeed it gave me Billie Ellish. Tin Eye is a reverse image search that finds sites hosting that picture even if the image here was only a small segment or a crop of a fuller image.
As it’s a branded PC (Compaq), I think your best bet would be restore your existing copy of Windows back to factory settings. It’s easier to do it nowadays as you don’t need a CD. The factory copy of Windows is stored on a hidden partition. When you start up the PC, you’ll need to press one of the F keys e.g. F2 or F10. It varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, so you’ll need to check if you have any manuals that came with the PC. Looking on Google though, Compaq seems to be F11 to start recovery.
The idea of going back to factory Windows is so that the machine will run like it’s new again.
Make sure that you back everything up before you start though! MP3s, pictures, documents, game settings, internet bookmarks and so on.
Clicking on BACKINAMO.COM (next to the bandit graphic from Dead or Alive) at the top of each page will always take you back to the BIAM home page.
For the back button, what Mr B said. The buttons like back, reload, new tab, search etc are part of the web browser. The layout will depend on which browser you’re using, If you’re using just the Android stock browser, you could try going onto Google Play and download the one that you use on a computer like Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc. Then the button placements / layout might look more familiar to you albeit scaled down for the mobile’s screen size.
While I agree that gambling shouldn’t be carried out with borrowed money (including credit cards), I disagree that the casinos should take full responsibility on the woman gambling away £100k in 2 days. If she’s 18+ and has mental capacity, she should shoulder some of the responsibility. The rest of the responsibility should be down to safeguards that are agreed by the Gambling Commission.
My conspiracy theory isn’t about online gambling, but rather – offline gambling. Theresa May’s government announced last year that they were going to crack down on section B2 of the gambling act. This is specifically roulette on the bookies terminals. Some of you will know that the terminals also have slots (section B3). The new law went live only this month, but ever since the announcement got made last year, the B3 slots suddenly started to play much worse. I check the percentages screen and it’s still 90% on £1 play and £92 on £2 play (so no changes there), and yet it seems like something have changed from the bookies point of view and the 90% / 92% offerings is just a placebo effect.
Have anyone else found this? It’s now at the point that I’m probably going to blanket self-exclude myself from all bookies and just play my monthly £50 online on Video Slots and Royal Panda, as I’ve never had a problem with online gambling.
Haz, genuine question – what were the £500 games like in the 2003-2008 era? I think they were known as Section 16 machines back then? I only caught up with the £500s about 10 years ago and by then they were known as Section B3 (same as bookies FOBTs I think?) 10 years ago it was all Reel King, Rocky, Elvis, Cashino, Monty’s Millions etc. Barcrest and Astra were big business. Blueprint came much later on e.g. Imperial Dragon (my fave game), like around 2015. Had a really good run on the Blueprints but it went south starting 6 months ago, probably in preparation for Theresa May’s new gambling taxes.
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