Phil, you say that video poker is promoted as a profit maker and you equate as addictive and a drug as potent as anything created by the pharmaceutical industry.FloridaPhil wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:09 amThis post started out talking about discipline. Since we have now moved to TV characters, I wonder who remembers the Seinfeld show called "The Challenge"? I won't discuss it in detail due to it's adult nature, but you can Google it yourself.
I have a challenge for the members of this forum. I'm betting you can't stay out of a casino for longer than a month. Since there is no way to verify our results, I won't offer a cash prize this time.
The casinos are not the problem. When video poker is promoted as a profit maker, it encourages addictive behavior through a cycle of never ending punishment and reward. It's a drug as potent as anything created by the pharmaceutical industry. Depression and stress create serious medical issues. To add fuel to the fire, we allow ourselves to be poisoned by tobacco smoke, exposed to alcohol abuse and assaulted by immoral characters.
To keep myself from being negatively affected, I don't buy into the casino's marketing. I know the casino will eventually take all the money I can put into their machines, so I play small 99% of the time. To reward myself for having the discipline to do that, I save $50 to play the big machines at the end of the day and walk out with whatever I win. When one of my end-of-day potshots pays off, it offsets the tiny losses I endure during the day. It's not a big profit maker, but it has worked better than anything else I have ever tried.
It's been ten days since I went to a casino. I miss it already. Let's find out who the real addicts are.
Let me ask you this: How many years did you play max. coin, dollar denomination, before you curbed your addiction?
GET OFF YOUR PREACHER'S SOAPBOX. We get it: you are now on a crusade here to tell people all about how addictive video poker is. You also say that you play here regularly so just exactly how much have you curbed YOUR video poker addiction?