I confess, I haven’t spent that much time on (or would it be
in?) VR casino games. Given that the prices of decent VR
headsets are still a little on the steep side, I haven’t yet
been able to make the commitment, and buy one for myself. What
I have experienced of VR at a friends place has been
impressive, though, to the extent that I really hope VR finds a
foothold.
AR - that’s augmented reality for the unversed, or those who
played Pokémon Go and were astounded by how it worked - I
haven’t experienced it at all in terms of the casino sector,
given that it’s barely entered into the real world. And I’m not
a fan of chasing funny creatures about in public,
so no Pokémon Go for me.
The concept of AR does sounds incredible though. However, I do
fear that AR and VR fighting for a place in the online casino
market will be rather messy, and perhaps not the best idea,
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Source:
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Las Vegas is one of those names that summons up a certain
series of thoughts. For me, it conjures images of outrageously
attractive showgirls, indoor sunglasses wearing guys playing
poker, and a veritable forest of bright neon lights. These
images may or may not be out of date. I can’t say for sure, as
my stay there was so debauched I’d like to leave what happened
in Vegas…well, in Vegas. But, the point is that if Vegas
doesn’t manage to at least partially match the perceptions
people had about it, it wouldn’t be long before Sin City lost
it’s tourist attraction powers.
What does this mean? It’s means that Vegas has to keep
evolving, changing, and being a myth, or it will surely die.
That may sound harsh, but it happens to be the truth.
Predominantly tourist attraction cities have to keep up
appearances, and keep offering new things to see, ...Continue reading
Stress is a killer,
everyone can agree on that. In fact, if you pay attention to
those cheerful charts that helpfully list the various things
killing people, stress sits at number one. A round of
applause for stress and its incredible achievement!
Certainly no sarcasm here people, I give praise where it’s
due.
But to be serious for a moment, keeping stress levels down
really is something every person has to take seriously. I
personally have a habit of clenching my teeth when I’m
stressed, and let me tell you, a particularly stressful day can
leave my jaw aching. How do I keep my stress levels down?
Running helps, I find. And there are a number of casino games
that do my stress levels a world of good as well.
Slot
games are good, but my go-to stress relief game is, without
a doubt, bingo.
That Lady And Her Relaxing Voice
I named my favourite online bingo ...Continue reading
I once had the worst online casino experience of my life. And
that’s saying a lot, given that I’ve visited a number of
seriously questionable online casinos. In my quest for great
deals, of course.
As I recall, the casino did not register a deposit, which in
itself was completely unacceptable. But then, to rub salt in
the bitter wound, the customer support centre turned out to be
run entirely by a person who did not understand the difference
between your and you’re. If that gives you an idea of the level
of professionalism. Or to put it another way; interacting with
the person in the chat window was akin to having a pair of
drills pierce my eyeballs.
After roughly an hour of confusing interaction, my deposit
finally came through. But, naturally, by then I had lost all
intention of spending any time at the casino. I withdrew the
amount immediately, and sat seething. An hour of my life had
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Don’t lie to me and say you haven’t thought about robbing a
casino. You have. Its okay, we all have. I was doing it five
minutes ago, which is why I wrote this blog. There is, after
all, something very alluring about the thought of putting in a
high risk, small amount of work, and afterwards being set up
for the rest of your life. And yes, I have also seen
Ocean’s Eleven, and yes, I agree it seems like you
could be incredibly cool pulling off a casino heist. Not
‘George-Clooney-cool’, but as close as the average person can
get.
The universally agreed upon thought seems to be that a casino
really wouldn’t miss a few million, in the case of it being
stolen. I mean, just look at your average casino. Take in the
mammoth architecture and overly flamboyant design. Would the
owners of this building miss a million or two? Of course they
wouldn’t. And, let’s just pretend that the owner of your ...Continue reading
Something that occurred to me recently was that I had spent
most of the time I had played Red Dead Redemption, a game
largely about shooting people, engaging in casino
games. Red Dead Redemption, like many modern open world
games, allows the player the option to holster their
six-shooter, kick back, and enjoy a few rounds of poker. It’s
odd, really, considering how long I’ve been involved in the
gambling industry that it has only just occurred to me how many
video games allow you to participate in a bit of
consequence-free gambling.
For those unaware, Red Dead Redemption is an outstanding
Western game, its main focus on allowing players to live out
fantasies of being a cowboy. Such fantasies involve; pulling
you six-shooter and killing bandits, pulling your six-shooter
and killing animals, pulling your six-shooter and killing
Native Americans, and, of course, tying up victims and leaving
them ...Continue reading
I’m not sure about you, but I’m pretty certain that
touchscreens were sent from hell to torment everyday humans
(especially those of us not blessed with the most dainty of
fingers!). How it is that my touch screen and auto-correct
still think I’m regularly talking about ducks is beyond me. I’m
not talking about ducks, thank you auto-correct.
I loathe touch screens. They take my exceptionally fast laptop
keyboard typing speed and reduce it to a mess of
incomprehensible gibberish. Why, oh why, did handheld devices
ever move away from buttons, replacing them with smooth, flat
surfaces that bear about as much resemblance to a real keyboard
as a duck does a bald eagle? See? I meant duck this time, and I
got duck.
I set about finding the oldest phone I could, and decided to
use it for a day, testing it in all the key areas of my life.
Sending texts, playing mobile casino games, and checking
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I mentioned awhile
back that I find superstitions fascinating, and I still do.
There is, after all, something fairly amazing about the
extents people will go to in order to try and bring some
kind of order to the unknown. Even if that something is
putting a mandrake root in fresh milk, and stashing it under
your bed. Apparently this chases away evil spirits, since,
as is well known to all who have perused the evil spirit
textbooks, there is nothing evil detests more than roots and
milk.
So, I thought it high time I dug in to the subject of
superstitions. I happen to have read up a great deal on the
subject already, and that information might as well be useful
somewhere.
Personal Superstitions
I make a lot of jokes about superstitions, but know that I am
not immune to them. Yes, I am aware that it is completely
nonsensical to think that something like the ...Continue reading
Casino
games have a great deal of superstition around them, which
makes sense, given the human propensity to make up “rules”
where there are none. Since casino games rely on luck to
varying degrees, it also goes without saying that there is a
degree of chaos involved. In such cases superstition is bound
to flourish; giving imaginary rules to the chaos.
I like superstitions, because for me they are a demonstration
of the extent people will go to in order to give personality to
the unknown. A thing with personality can, after all, be
reasoned with, can’t it not? Surely the badness can be kept out
if I sprinkle salt across the threshold of my door. Problem
solved, badness defeated, order restored.
Forgive me for getting all philosophical there, it was fleeting
and I’ll stop immediately. I really do like superstitions,
though, and decided to dive into one of my favourite; dead
man’s ...Continue reading
If you’ve played a
few modern online slot
games, you’ll know that they are undergoing some serious
quality upgrades. I mean, I admit that I prefer more skill
based casino games like poker, however there are some
amazing slots that really appeal to me. In fact Pollen Party
and Thunderstruck are two of my not-so secret favourites...
You’d also have to be a seriously cynical person to not at
least appreciate the obvious amounts of effort that go into
making modern slot games.
The Scrooge Story
Scrooge is the well-known Christmas story about a wise old man
named, aptly, Scrooge. Scrooge did well for himself, working
hard, saving his money for retirement, and making sure he never
wasted a penny in his life. We can all agree that Scrooge
sounds like the kind of person who had his head screwed on
straight.
Unfortunately for Scrooge, he lived in a town full ...Continue reading
