Slot Machines Doing What They Can For Katrina Refugees
READ MORE: Casinos, Hurricane Katrina, Slots
Who says random number generating electronic casino games don’t have a heart? CNN.com proves that even soulless machines were touched by the plight of hurricane refugees:
“The 57-year-old retired librarian won $1.6 million playing the slot machine at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, Louisiana.
When asked how she’d spend the money, Sherman replied, ‘First of all, I would like to find somewhere to live because my house was destroyed in Katrina.’”
There was one time we got a flat tire and had to change it on the side of the road all by ourselves, and we didn’t get so much as a $5 scratch-off winner to balance out our bad luck. Some people…
2005 World Series of Slots - Spin Em To Win Em
READ MORE: Online Gambling, Slots
Are you a button pusher? Do you enjoy letting a random number generator do the gambling for you? Are your dreams permeated by sets of things in threes? Bars, cherries, bells? If so, we have just the event for you:
The Jackpot Factory (www.jackpotfactory.com), a leading online casino group, has announced the launch of the World Series of Slots, a month-long promotion sure to score a home run with their casino players.
We prefer to play our online slots at the Jackpot Factory Outlet. The jackpots may have a scratch, dent, or ding, but they’re all at least 30% off retail.
Jackpot Factory Introduces the World Series of Slots [Pressbox]
Jackpot Factory
Gambling Gifts For The Ridiculously Rich
READ MORE: Craps, Gambling, Poker, Roulette, Slots
· Is there anything (besides berets, croissants, and a latent contempt for America) more patently European than gambling using rectangular poker chips? For $300, these high end checks can be yours. [Italian Papers]
· If you’re like us, you’re tired of throwing dice in back alleys and in dank basements around town. $4,449 and a casino quality craps table can turn even the lamest laundry room into a den of inequity in mere minutes. [SuperDuperGames]
· We’re not going to vouch for validity, but if you’re a WSOP buff and have more than a couple bucks to spend, how about bidding on the supposed actual final table from this year’s WSOP? [ebay]
· This table is the perfect gift for the gambling antique lover in your life, provided of course you’ve got $16K to drop. We don’t like anybody that much. [Joseph Marc]
· Those 11.5g poker chips you got off of ebay? Composite resin with an insert, not the real thing. If you’re interested in getting some real clay chips, it’s going to set you back. $670 sound like a deal? [No Limit Poker Store]
· Grandma coming for a visit? Keep her busy for hours with your very own slot machine, only $3,000 from Christopher’s Games of Quality & Distinction. Just don’t steal any of Nana’s pulls, old ladies get awfully protective of their machines. [Christopher’s Games…]
Jackpot!
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From CNN:
“A truck carrying tons of quarters caught fire Tuesday and spilled most of them on a highway, where workers used heavy equipment, shovels and buckets to scoop up the singed coins.”
A 72 year-old woman found filling large plastic cups full of the debris at the scene remarked, “And I didn’t even have to pull a lever for all this!”
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Triple Seven! You No Pay Fee Now! You Winner!
READ MORE: Gizmodo, Slots
We had mentioned this in passing a couple of weeks ago, but it looks like our bucktoothed nerdlinger cousins over at Gizmodo have bribed some Japanese chick to take a picture of the new ATM slot machine game, wrap it up in a pair of soiled panties with some fish-flavored crunchies, and ship it over to them here in the States. All in exchange for two Dragonball Z videos in their original wrapper, and a Mobile Suit: Gundam action figure. Mint in box, naturally.
This would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. We mean what these Gizmodo guys will do for a lead on Japan’s latest in technology, not the game itself. That’s pretty cool.
Japan ATM Slot Game [Gizmodo]
Slots: More Addictive than Any Drug on the Planet
READ MORE: Casino Games, Slots
No wonder our grandmother has been scratching at imaginary bugs on her arms for the past two days. According to Ed Looney [sic], slot machines are the most addictive form of gambling. It’s tough to think of penny slots as something “highly addictive,” considering we take most of our pennies and throw them at bike messengers from the top of our roof, but Looney says otherwise:
The addictive part of gambling revolves around “the anticipation of the outcome of the bet,” Looney said. A bettor might have to wait as long as 20 minutes between races at Penn National Race Course. “With slots, they’re doing it in 8 seconds, 12 seconds,” Looney said.What else can be considered highly addictive and be done in as 8 seconds? Hmm… bullriding with Luke Perry? Most definitely.
Slots considered most addictive form of gambling [The Patriot Ledger]
One day, everything will be a wager, from a hand of poker to the likelihood you'll be struck down by a bioterror attack before the next brain backup. One day. For now, there's Oddjack. It's a sneak peek at the future of gambling.
