Slots and Gaming Machines Are The Worst Form of Gambling

Most punters realise that slots are no go zones. However, wherever gaming machines are in the world they rake in huge amounts of money and lots of people do play them.

If you are a regular player you know that you are losing. If you think you aren't, you are. If you kept a diary of your results you would know you are losing but obviously I don't recommend this - I recommend you stop playing them and never play them again. If you know you have a problem get help today. Every day that you delay getting help will just cause the size of your problems to increase.

Why are poker machines so bad? Quite simply because they are programmed to return less than they take in. A typical machine takes around 10% of all money it receives for itself and only return 90%. So for every $100,000 placed in a machine, the owners make $10,000 in easy, risk-free, profit. And of course you the punter can't exercise any judgement (choosing whether to double up or choosing how many lines you play doesn't count as being able to use judgement).

In what other walk of life would you accept something so unfair? As with all other forms of gambling where you can't exercise judgement, you should only ever play once in a blue moon for a laugh, put in $20 and see how you go and then (once you've lost it) walk away and have some fun doing something else.

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