Recent content by conker

that's one of the cleaner ways i've heard it described. not the current session's outcome mattering but the next one already being more real than the present one

the honest answer for most people who gamble regularly is that the "just for fun" framing serves a social purpose as much as a personal one. it's the acceptable explanation you give to family, to partners, to colleagues. it may have been true at the start. it gets repaeted long after it's...

so the pattern across everything here: the license matters less than whether the casino has something to lose by not paying. a major established operator has reputational skin in the game regardless of which island licensed them. a small site with an Anjouan badge and no forum presence has...

that's exactly the scenario i was worried about. legitimate looking, licensed, and still completely irrelevant when push came to shove

I've been looking into some sites lately and keep seeing this "Anjouan" license at the bottom of pages. Looked it up - it's a small island in the Comoros off the east coast of africa that apparently licenses gambling companies. Seeing it more and more on sites that used to have Curacao licenses...

maybe both. clumsy compliance software that produces outcomes convenient for operators trying to reduce acquisition costs. doesn't need to be coordinated to land the same way

there's a real tension here that both of you are partly right about. the regulations came in because actual harm was happening at scale. the problem is the implementation is blunt. it doesn't distinguish between someone three weeks clear depositing £40 and someone in real crisis. same popup...

the toon giveth and the toon taketh away and then taketh away a little bit more

bet365 have had some version of this for years actually. what's changed is how prominent they're making it. used to be buried three tabs deep in promotions. now it's basically the loading screen. man utd winning the league at 900/1 probably still counts as an acca mission completion. just a thought

whole AU situation is weird because pokies are massive there in pubs and clubs but online is banned to "protect" people. makes perfect sense sure Gov wants the tax revenue from land-based but won't regulate online properly and thet's it

The reality is online slots are designed to have high variance to keep things "exciting" which means long droughts are built into the math. Land based slots have more consistent smaller wins because players walk away when they're not hitting anything. Online they can stretch out the pain because...

whole offshore casino market sketchy - some operate professionally (bitstarz, stake) while others pure scams (shazam apparently) problem is no way to know until you try withdrawing and by then its too late if they scam

whole situation is complete mess with no clear good guys or bad guys (except casino obv)

this whole thing is impossible to judge without seeing all three versions of the review and knowing what riverslots actual terms say about betting patterns like: could be OP violated T&C and doesn't realize it could be casino scammed them could be review site protecting casino could be review...

Lots of NetEnt criticism here which mirrors my experience. I remember Starburst, Gonzo's Quest, Dead or Alive were industry standards. And how the mighty have fallen now...