Gamblers WOW!!!

Went with my wife for lunch at the local hotel (yeah it was good), and she went into the poker machine room to spend her usual $20.00. In South Australia we have one of the dumbest ideas ever thought of by politicians - they legalised poker machines in EVERY hotel in the state! Of course this provides the State Government with an incredible amount of money at the expense of people who can least afford it and many who have become gambling addicts resulting in broken marriages, homes, bankruptcy and even suicide.

I don't gamble, but I find it fascinating sitting and watching the habitual gamblers pouring money into machines that they cannot possibly win at.

This is what it looks like - they sit for hours in a zombie like state for hours at a time, completely oblivious to everything except the screen in front of them. The machinies are GUARANTEED to only pay out about 87% - which means that these people who continually play them are GUARANTEED to lose 13%.

Yep, that's right, there's no possible way that they can win, but they still keep playing.

But just out of interest, on the day we were there my wife won $70.00 - so we took it and left. Ha Ha!!