Recent content by shadow123

to actually answer the original question. i think i play for fun but on nights im down i stay on longer than i intended. those two facts together probably tell you something. i don' t examine it too hard because i think the answer would make me uncomfortable.

btw does anyone know why they moved the kickoff to 5pm BST this year. these things are usually 8pm

honest answer is nobody knows. anyone who tells you they know who wins a cup final is selling something

thats why i'm being careful. everyone wants arsenal to win including me. but wanting them to win and it being a good bet are different things. waiting to see if there's any injury news before i commit to anything

and the most useful part of this post is the "go in with eyes open" framing. a lot of people get into high stakes play because of a few good sessions and the feeling those sessions create, not because they calculated whether the EV supported it. by the time the losses are significant the...

for offshore that's probably the most honest answer yes. for UK sites the UKGC enforcement is real enough that the license itself carries weight. for everything else it's a sliding scale from MGA which has some teeth down to fringe jurisdictions where it's essentially nothing. look for sites...

practical note if you want to verify a license is real: most jurisdictions publish registers. UKGC and MGA both have searchable databases on their sites. Curacao's register is a PDF you have to manually search - their actual search function doesn't work. Anjouan has a decent online register. so...

from experience the license determines who you can realistically escalate to when things go wrong. had a dispute with a UKGC site once - slow and painful process but it eventually got resolved. had a dispute with a Curacao site - months of back and forth that went nowhere. technically both were...

that's probably reading too much intent into what is mostly just clumsy compliance software

or it could just be automated compliance software that flags at a threshold without any centralised surveilance agenda behind it

jackpot mechanics that reward raw volume with no skill element are the worst version of this whole thing. at least missions are built around normal bet types. "bet more to maybe win something" with no other consideration is about as barefaced as it gets

the tournament format you're describing is pretty niche even at sites that do run tournaments. most just do freerolls or leaderboard competitions. the fixed-spin buy-in tournaments were kind of a videoslots specialty might be worth asking in the casino reviews section if anyone knows alternatives

smart business from the operators though. keeps players in the app longer, more touchpoints, more bets placed incidentally. they wouldn't be doing it if it didn't move the numbers. so real question is whether it actually changes bettin behavior or just layers cosmetic stuff on top of what people...

honestly think best strategy is if you're 200-300 spins deep with no feature just move on. i've wasted too much money chasing features that either never came or paid nothing when they did. not worth it fr

think its getting pretty clear curacao is cheap license for operators with min player prot. some good casinis have it but the license itself provides almost nothing when disputes arise