In my last blog post, I wrote about the reasons why good people do good things, and the reasons why I do what I...
this is her story
July 29, 2011
Monthly Archive: July 2011
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why?
I’ve been writing about gambling, in all its different guises and forms, for a while now. As a former pokie addict you could say...
July 26, 2011 -
what does “double standard” mean?
A Richard Willingham article in Friday’s Age had me scrambling for my Flip Dictionary, which is best described as an intuitive thesaurus on steroids....
July 24, 2011 -
pokie habits
There is a common perception that the vast majority of poker machine players do not have a gambling problem; that poker machines are (in...
July 20, 2011 -
poker machine mathematics II
A short while ago I published The Truth Behind Poker Machine Mathematics, an article that explored how poker machines can pay out 90% while...
July 14, 2011 -
the punch and judy show, clubsnsw-style
Remember Punch and Judy? Those wacky, zany puppets who smack each other (and anyone else who comes near) around with big sticks? Well there’s...
July 12, 2011 -
the narooma news puts pokies before people
Ah me, ah my. The local papers of NSW are at it again; wilfully printing inaccurate, biased stories about poker machine reforms and the...
July 6, 2011 -
and still i weep
In 1995, without any prior gambling history and with the world seemingly at my feet, I played a poker machine for the first time;...
July 4, 2011
