pegasusMy Poker Machine Addiction
August 24th 2006 03:26
August 22
Written off due to big day on the poker machines. I know - hopeless hey!
August 23
Today I’m experiencing poker machine remorse. It’s where you spend hours trying to win a jackpot; blow all your bucks and head home. Sometimes pissed. Then the following day you look at the massive dent in your bank balance, feel remorseful and promise yourself faithfully you’ll never do it again. It’s all about those stupid bloody features. I mean how annoying that I even get sucked in by them. Take for example the Queen of the Nile poker machine. According to statistics this is the most popular poker machine in Australia. Imagine spending half an hour out of my short life sitting in from of this machine waiting for three simple looking pyramids to appear. Only then to be savagely disappointed when they don’t “pay” me. As I write this down I feel really embarrassed. It feels even more stupid writing about it than it does doing it. So back to those blasted features. As you may or may not know some of them have jackpots attached to them. The highest one is in the realm of $75,000. I know one woman who won it. And another who won about $25,000. I’m not silly enough to believe that I will win one of these (but I might!). However, the smaller jackpots – say around the $100 mark – these ones believe I have a shot at. Attempting to crack a jackpot however is very damaging to one’s pocket. Yesterday for instance my sister and I were attempting to crack one. I put about $30 in and she must have put about $40 in it. There you go: we wasted $70 trying to win $100; go figure? Writing this down I realize how pathetic it must sound to people who don’t gamble. But what can I say: it’s all part of the addiction. Tomorrow: Shifting the blame to governments!
Written off due to big day on the poker machines. I know - hopeless hey!
August 23
Today I’m experiencing poker machine remorse. It’s where you spend hours trying to win a jackpot; blow all your bucks and head home. Sometimes pissed. Then the following day you look at the massive dent in your bank balance, feel remorseful and promise yourself faithfully you’ll never do it again. It’s all about those stupid bloody features. I mean how annoying that I even get sucked in by them. Take for example the Queen of the Nile poker machine. According to statistics this is the most popular poker machine in Australia. Imagine spending half an hour out of my short life sitting in from of this machine waiting for three simple looking pyramids to appear. Only then to be savagely disappointed when they don’t “pay” me. As I write this down I feel really embarrassed. It feels even more stupid writing about it than it does doing it. So back to those blasted features. As you may or may not know some of them have jackpots attached to them. The highest one is in the realm of $75,000. I know one woman who won it. And another who won about $25,000. I’m not silly enough to believe that I will win one of these (but I might!). However, the smaller jackpots – say around the $100 mark – these ones believe I have a shot at. Attempting to crack a jackpot however is very damaging to one’s pocket. Yesterday for instance my sister and I were attempting to crack one. I put about $30 in and she must have put about $40 in it. There you go: we wasted $70 trying to win $100; go figure? Writing this down I realize how pathetic it must sound to people who don’t gamble. But what can I say: it’s all part of the addiction. Tomorrow: Shifting the blame to governments!
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Comment by phil
One thing I'm hoping you could shed some light on is people who like the pokie machines. To me they're just a machine programmed to take your money, there's no way I can think of to play smart and beat the odds. I'm not trying to judge you or anything as I have lost big money at the casino myself, I'm just interested.
Comment by Kylie
regards
Kylie