Worse. I know all about the psychological mechanisms that keep you playing.Ah, you guys realise what the legislated Return To Player is on these things right? And that the outcome is decided independently of you pushing any random button?
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Worse. I know all about the psychological mechanisms that keep you playing.Ah, you guys realise what the legislated Return To Player is on these things right? And that the outcome is decided independently of you pushing any random button?
I've won quite a bit on Tiki Torch in Vegas at times. Geisha was always a winner for me at Crown and I play it for nostalgia's sake here. My brother and I used to go to Vegas two or three times a year. Now I just can't, so he drives up from downstate and we go to a local casino. He now plays poker and wins. I still play the "slots" and lose. We get comped rooms and meals at Caesars Entertainment Casinos. I am embarrassed to say that my biggest single win in Vegas was at the airport. I was on a $1 machine, betting 3 lines and won $1200.
On my trip to Melbourne in 2009 I won $700 at Crown. On my way back home I volunteered to get bumped on the San Fransisco to Chicago leg of my trip and got a voucher for $600 from United, a first class ticket to Chicago the next day and food and accommodation overnight in SF. The Crown win and the United voucher paid for my return visit the next year.
Worse. I know all about the psychological mechanisms that keep you playing.
That's one generous airline.
It's subjective. While you might be happy to lose $10, for someone else it's $100 or $1000.Sadly, I was on the other side of the fence, having worked for many years for one of the operators - and used this information to tell everyone I knew to either avoid them, or if wanting to have a small flutter, use $10 or so, and if unsuccessful, walk away.
Ah, you guys realise what the legislated Return To Player is on these things right? And that the outcome is decided independently of you pushing any random button?
Sadly, I was on the other side of the fence, having worked for many years for one of the operators - and used this information to tell everyone I knew to either avoid them, or if wanting to have a small flutter, use $10 or so, and if unsuccessful, walk away.
No. No. No. Geisha is the one to clean up on or Tiki Torch. Do they still exist in Victoria? They're my favourites at the casinos here. I try to keep to mostly Aristocrat machines, made in Australia.
I miss going to Crown Casino on Friday evenings. Because of my caregiver responsibilities, I haven't been to Vegas since my birthday in Sept. 2013. That's the longest that I've been away from Sin City in the nearly 15 years since I've returned.
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Edgewater 17 March 2015.
Council apparently rejected application for 2 extra floors that were to contain 18 apartments.
Expected finish date is now end of October 2015.
Would make a good "spot the differences". I notice thatView attachment 116655
Edgewater 17 March 2015.
Council apparently rejected application for 2 extra floors that were to contain 18 apartments.
Expected finish date is now end of October 2015.
Would make a good "spot the differences". I notice thattwothree trees that were on the nature strip in February are not there in March. Accidents do happen in construction however.
Bird/large piece of timber, well spotted The car's still there though. Perhaps it's abandoned. Abandoned cars and stolen trees. Rough neighbourhood.Bird has moved from the top if the brickwork!
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Edgewater 17 March 2015.
Council apparently rejected application for 2 extra floors that were to contain 12 apartments.
Expected finish date is now end of October 2015.
We seriously have the wrong developer involved in all of this. There are all sort of planning hurdles involved with adding residential levels on top of a commercial site and to do so mid-way through construction is naive at best or possibly far worse.
So do I. The environmental approvals for a planning permit on residential development are quite different to a commercial one, and changing that mid-way through construction IS a big deal.
I would say a place like the TAB runs independently and the Bulldogs would merely be their landlords if they were to set up within Edgewater. DoggiesBet as well probably really had nothing to do with the Bulldogs, I believe it was run by LuxBet. We would have received something out of the deal but had no control over the operation of the website.This recent fiasco involving Hunter (and a couple of people bringing up the pokies at Edgewater in relation to it) has me thinking about a possibility. I don't understand the intricacies of social clubs and their deals with gambling organisations, so this is an open question.
Suppose the Edgewater club, as well as poker machines, also offers a TAB or similar in-person service for sports/racing betting. Do the operators of the club (i.e. the Bulldogs) receive profit from the transactions made at these outlets, as they do with pokies (apparently), or does it all go to the main Betting company?
If it's the former, I could picture a potential conflict of interest: a large number of people (who will presumably be mostly Doggies fans, given the location and purpose of the venue) place money on the Bulldogs to win/beat the line/lead at the first break/etc. at this outlet, and someone in the Operations Department works out that losing/winning under the line/not getting into gear until the second/etc. would lead to a profit for the club from the losing stakes.
I don't know if other teams' social clubs have betting outlets, so there may be some rule against it or the clubs just don't get a share in the revenue. I do remember a brief period around 2008-10 when each AFL team seemed to have its own betting agency (like doggiesbet.com.au), which might have also had the same risks associated with it.
Maybe it was more wishful thinking than anything. "Got nothing to lose" scenario.So do I. The environmental approvals for a planning permit on residential development are quite different to a commercial one, and changing that mid-way through construction IS a big deal.
I would say a place like the TAB runs independently and the Bulldogs would merely be their landlords if they were to set up within Edgewater. DoggiesBet as well probably really had nothing to do with the Bulldogs, I believe it was run by LuxBet. We would have received something out of the deal but had no control over the operation of the website.
Maybe it was more wishful thinking than anything. "Got nothing to lose" scenario.