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Players or casino's? Not much effect on the casino's tbf, here's Leo's latest press release. Likely the same with others; sports betting offset by increase in virtuals etc as well. Those however with actual betting shops may have different results, not looked tbh but those places are getting phased out anyhow, or certainly downsized in their portfolios. LeoVegas concluded the record year 2020 with its strongest fourth quarter ever. And we did this despite frequent changes to the gaming requirements in our markets in addition to finding ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic.

Apparently there'll be a major reform of the NHS (won't hold my breath, they were saying that when i worked there 20 years ago) but will see; it won't be done properly for political reasons so we'll end up with some half baked reform that achieves nothing. Scotland's eyeing up pulling social work into a new National Care Service, sitting alongside NHS Scotland but again, i doubt it'll go far enough. Still talk of a Japanese model of private insurance/public funded but that'll be a tough sell to the left.

With a series of semi cryptic/weird posts, he certainly has a bit of the Dave Morrisons about him

I used to be a big fan of the old gangster films; from the GF, through the Once Upon A Time in America, even Gang of NY but now i struggle to even watch them the odd time - think your tastes change over the years; the use of the word EPIC etc now strikes fear into me as it means, to be anyway, long winded/bloated/self indulgent etc Now prefer shorter, punchier films that provide a bit of escapism, nothing that i have to seriously concentrate on for 2.5-3hrs. 30 minutes for a TV prog 1.5 hrs for a film

You've just highlighted all my pet hates - Supernatural being the worst IMO; how many times have they died? The same story just gets rehashed - same for the WD: same story, different ish plots. If you can't tell a full arc in 3 seasons (5 max - even Breaking Bad staggered in the last few seasons) then don't bother. Mortified to find that supernatural has gone, what 15 seasons? I stopped after 7 i think. NCIS was another pet hate - it's gone 21 seasons for the same tagline: we've got a dead marine, load up. Really? Another dead marine? Wandavision is ok - nice, crisp 21 minute episodes Then you get good shows stopped after 2 seasons, yet you look at American Horror Story, which has about 3 good episodes on season 8 or whatnot - nuts. Film wise the worst over the years has been the Irishman -running at what feels like 4 hrs, it's totally irrelevant. Good luck if you managed not to slip into a coma during that

There's not that many eps a season, maybe only 5-6 i think: normally one great, one good, one average and a few poor Last few haven't been that great tbh; steam seems to have ran out of Brookers train (that 'Death to 2020' was penned by him and was rubbish)

Drag me to *****, of recent years, was ok IIRC

Sign of the times in this 'Woke' society we live in: so many justice warriors it's hard to keep track of.

Yeah, you've got no chance of changing it. It's dodgy Curacao territory or nothing - i'd select nothing. If you do want to play again in 5 years and, given autospins are to be fully banned in the UK there may not be much incentive, you'll likely encounter trouble reactivating your old casino accounts anyhow; i know some operators, with people coming back from GS, simply refuse to re-open as a matter of policy.

I've been rewatching the old Hitchcock classics to be honest: more suspense than horror obviously, tho The Birds still gives me shivers.

Bly wasn't great; i get they didn't just want to make a Hill House 2 but Bly was so pedestrian in places to the point it was pretty dull. The Blumhouse productions are OK, thought not jumpy horrors: Get Out was good i thought. I much prefer the psychological films these days - they shock far more than ghosts

Bonanza, IMO, has never been, nor is capable of being, a Jamming Jars, NLC hit game: what it is good at is, if in the mood, giving you 500-750x smash and grabs if in the mood. The new Jackpot Version of the game has a 12000x max win seemingly 1k plus of the win came on the last spin - slow-mo, the emeralds came lumped in on a x16 multi

As always, being black and white and a realist....3 years in total? That was spin 70 or so for that session wise though - was from the VS battle weekend as had got 150 quid and was playing down to 140 ish. Also, somewhat compensated feel as it's almost like all the 10x wins have been rewarded 1kx wins on Bonanza are ultra rare, no stats but even playing it often, probably less than 10 in total.

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Seems a bit excessive for, what, 25 quid? Like, a Chinese and a Burger King.

BTG have a deal with PlayOLG i think so you probably wont find them in a lot of places.

The casino has a cheek to tell players to read the terms whenever they can't read themselves regarding offering UK players etc services. Brave person to be sending in documents to these people as well - probably somewhere for sale as we speak.

We all lose, just some have the fortune of taking longer to do so than most. Best you can hope for.

Paypals extremely limited: only really Uk, Sweden, Italy and a few others round the world re gambling. That's the major con. Other con, is you're adding another buffer to cause issues with withdrawals - random security checks etc. With VISA direct, Trustly - all being free unlike PP and the rip off merchants Skrill, for the UK at least, there's very few positives these places have over VISA/Trustly Plus, they've normally bonus banned as well. So, yeah, more negatives than positives. Edit - PP does have fee free transactions to be fair but still. Meh.

Think anyone who plays casinos, even moderately, needs to remember they're not immune to a decent into addiction. Sometimes you could be one bad day away from triggering a series of events that could push you under. So, when you hear someone's lost houses/jobs through stealing etc, try not to judge them too much as one day that person could be you. Longest was probably 10 years ago for a year. Personally, i've always had issues with impulse control. Not as much with gambling funnily enough but more with my drinking in the second half of my 20's where i'd literally disappear for weeks on end - just not knowing when to stop (one of the highlights being having the living s*** kicked out of me in Frankfurt when working there). I don't need to exert TOO much re gambling but still need to check it now and again. Then we have NLC advertising 150000x wins which are really 75x, leading to probably more actions to come from the UKGC and MGA (see MGA are kick starting more SOW's) which will, anyway, probably reduce the temptation for many

70x sounds like a Casumo/Energy deal where maybe wagering starts when you first spin, not when you're in the bonus funds. Personally, i don't mind that - though many hate it: just load it up and max bet it until busto/cashout-o One casino had an offer of deposit ten, get 200 quid; there was no max cash out but the max bet was a quid but the wagering was 100x: i got to 15k/20k wagering, which i was quite impressed with considering how low the max bet was.

Really? Hard enough to even play in the USA but there's codes for no wagering bonus's there as well? So, what are the names of these USA casinos that have/accept such codes?

Did wonder where the phrase can't give it away, came from.

The constant tanking of the RTP's isn't helping - even TK with the 94 Jin Chan and MG tanking Immortal Romance with a 94%; more and more providers are offering the variable ones for a race to the bottom. Go play a 96 (or 98 in some cases) slot on Unibet for a few sessions and then 91% on somewhere like Aspire and after a few sessions you'll notice the differences: depends where the 5% is taken from; could be reducing the 1000x wins, could be a reduction in the 250x-500x range etc. It creates a different game. Sure, you'll hit a big win on 91% but long term it will be worse. Wish providers would move away from the headline grabbing 60000x wins and start to offer more games with a more even 250x-500x range - i can't honestly believe anyone gets any joy from 100 quid, 100 autospins, 15 quid balance at the end, sessions. Maybe they do, i don't know. You certainly don't sit on those slots for hours, so a smash and grab is fine now and then but not if, on Sunday, you fancy a few hours session. Not every one needs/wants to be hitting 100000x: i'll just do the Euromillions instead. Netent/TK also get a shout out for games that turn the fan on in my mac - feels like my laptop is running more scripts than Tom Cruise. Their interface is also one of the clunkiest things about. Forgot about Pragmatic...far from the worse but have never seen a provider more than them whose games hate highish stakes; catch them on a good day and the 40-60ps can get the balance up relatively well, up to a quid and above and the balance hoover comes out: every-time, without fail. Still one of the more enjoyable providers if in the mood but have never had a real balance booster from them bar the 5 scatters in Madame etc.

MG to continue their decent into oblivion; the non conversion of some of the classics into HTML5 will jolt that forward a bit more Netent/Redtiger - terrible games: the days of Wild Rockets are all but gone BGT - their cluster games are awful; some of the worst i've played: just get back to making decent MV games. That Cybershot game is one of the worst releases this year. To be fair, at least they try and be a bit different. No Limit to continue to release games that will bust you, despite some of their max wins being low for such a HV (eg 8KX on some of them) I had hopes for 4thePlayer but that 123 Boom is up there in terms of the worst slots of 2020: regardless of it's 96% RTP PNG to reskin every game they have every made and probably come up with a 75% RTP release soon Thunderkick - meh. More of the same. Push Gaming seem to have disappeared recently. Stakelogic's games aren't THAT bad - but they really need to do something about that slot speed: meant to be 2.5 secs, feels like 10 -unplayable slots atm. No real biggie as there was - more slots for different moods/preferences: not a bad thing, Netent and MG ruled the roost for too long and while many don't like the current array of slots (me included), at least there's some choice now cf 15 years ago etc. i forgot about IGT slots - hahahha; oh boy. Woeful. They'll never improve because they appear to have either old aged pensioners developing their slots or 23 year olds fresh out of Uni - terrible