Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)
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Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)
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Re: Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)
#2“Pokies” appears to be Australian slang for ‘video poker machines’
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#3“Pokies” appears to be Australian slang for ‘video poker machines’
small addition: not just for video poker, it's slang for any slot machine.
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#4Some real australiana here.
To paint the picture for those who aren't familiar, the industry is enormous and, in NSW in particular, extremely powerful.
For a while (still? Not sure) in Brisbane, for example, you couldn't enter a bar after 1:30am unless it was a casino.
In NSW the sports clubs, of which there is one in every midsized town, have busses which circulate the retirement communities and bring the elderly to the poker machines for the day then drop them home again, broke. The busiest day is pension day.
Most small pubs have a larger and busier poker machine area than bar/beer garden area. Large "sports clubs" dedicate entire floors.
Australians lose the most money per capita to gambling by a significant margin.[1]
[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/552821/gambling-losses-p...
Re: Don't bet on the joys of pokies (2011)
#5Man this article is sad. Being addicted to gambling really does suck the life out you.
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#6“Pokies” appears to be Australian slang for ‘video poker machines’
Yeah, I was sorely disappointed, that's not what I associate with pokies at all.
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#7I don't recall the name of the paper, surprising to me, it was fairly detailed on how the 'satisfaction' gamblers experienced was from the familiar losses, not the occasional wins, viewed in that light it's even more tragic.
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#9Some real australiana here. To paint the picture for those who aren't familiar, the industry is enormous and, in NSW in particular, extremely powerful. For a while (still? Not sure) in Brisbane, for example, you couldn't enter a bar after 1:30am unless it was a casino. In NSW the sports clubs, of which there is one in every midsized town, have busses which circulate the retirement communities and bring the elderly to…
I'm not even Australian, but thanks to friendlygeordies, even I know gambling in AUS is a cartel:
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#10I started my career working on gambling apps, and it’s one of my red lines now when looking for work.
It’s an evil industry - full of dark patterns. I remember implementing a “cancel withdrawal” feature where essentially: the casino could deposit money in a customers bank account in a day when they request it. They instead choose to hold it in a pending state for a week, and allow them to cancel the withdrawal at any point in that week to immediately play with. Presumably so it didn’t feel as real as money leaving the gamblers bank account.