Commentary | Criminal Activities with a Gambling Backdrop

Without the mafia protection, people would dare to commit crime against the casino. When the casino was a yakuza, people fear to offend the casino. People just need to see some fangs to know fear. As a nice legal guy, the casino is just a harmless kitten. Below are some cases XingCai covered previously to prove her point.

• Cheating the Casino with Edge Sorting
  The eye in the sky poses no threat to those who intend to cheat the casino. A team of four-man-team comprising of two dealers used edge sorting to cheat the casino. Chinese triads would have their hands chopped off if they pull such stunts in their casino.
• Serial Cheaters at Casinos
  A team used the camera's blind spot to pull off a chip forgery scam at several casinos. With their activities recorded, observation eventually uncovered their plot.
• Violence at Betting Shops
  It is common for sore losers to return to the shop with hammer or axe to cause greater damages to gambling facilities in Europe.
• Murdered at the Bookies
  The violence gets taken up a notch when a life was taken at the betting shop.
• Arm Robbery at Betting Shop
  The "gutsiness" also get promoted when it comes to stealing from the casino. Armed robbers had targeted betting shops just any other convenience store.
• Cruelty for the Sake of Gambling
  XingCai had a unique case of a mother leaving her daughter unattended for the sake of gambling. This is the only crime that is not against the casino.

Facing the law is essentially spending time behind bars. In contrast the mafia can take up a vendetta against your entire household. XingCai had also brought up an interesting study to support the casino being transformed into dominant institutions of capital and government.

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Commentary | Cruelty for the Sake of Gambling

People could be leaving their kids locked in the car for hours and would not come under heavy criticism. Once it is done for the sake of gambling, the term "landu" (compulsive gamblers) will most definitely be attached to them. One unlucky woman locked her daughter in the car and went to the casino and was being charged for leaving a confined and unattended child under the age of 8, neglect of a minor and child abuse.

Chinese believe that if you are landu enough to neglect your children, you have the tendency to convert them into gambling chips and wage them on the gambling table. This "revelation" or "prophetic curse" goes back to the time when children could be sold off as slaves because they had witnessed enough of children with such ill fate during the era.

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Commentary | Sweetness of the Forbidden Fruit

The state of Ohio had decided to allow minors to gamble provided they are accompanied by a state-licensed employee at all times.

The inquisitiveness and eagerness of minors can now be satisfied. Sneaking in to casinos will no longer be an issue by allowing minors to gamble. The casino can assign them an babysitter and it would suffice.

Xingcai had criticized this policy as illogical from the business and social point of view. With the knowledge that "develop nation" are as corrupted, I wonder how much the casinos had stuffed into the pockets of the legislators. When Rob Ford, Toronto's mayor, decided that the city could use a casino, people thought he was on drugs. As it turns out he was really on crack cocaine. I wonder what drug the Ohio's legislators were on.

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Commentary | Scenarios of the Gambling Addict

Drawing on her past articles, XingCai is made a comprehensive conclusion on the issues that surrounds the gambling addict.

• Gambling Addicts to Hell
  Families of gambling addicts put up with enough disappointment and would have shunned them. Whenever they felt pressured to contribute back to their families they turn to gambling to add on to the trouble. They are as good as taking the highway to hell.
• The Lonely Turns to Gambling
  Lonely soccer superstars turn to gambling to ease their emptiness. The rich who can't handle success would have done the same. Gambling happily turn a prince into a pauper overnight.
• Chinatown Becomes Betting Strip
  Bookies had turned London's Chinatown into a betting colony. Once a shop moves out, a betting shop moves in immediately. Dweller find the temptation had to resist with betting shops everywhere since they are more prone to gambling addiction.
• Murderers and Gambling Addicts
  Gambling addiction could commit murder for money to gamble. Even wives or lover are not spared. The casino may be entertainment but it is a dangerous place to look for love.
• Gambling Addicts Sue Casinos
  Gambling addicts lose to the casino as well as on the legal battlefield. As long as you are an addict the casino will always win. You will be open to attack when the casino dangles the carrot in front of your face.
• Medicine for Gambling Addicts
  The medical field bring hopes for gambling addicts but the wonder drug to make your gambling urges disappear still far from being found.

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