Commentary | Students Gamble Away Their Study Loans

As a disciplined gambler, I always laugh at questions used by gambling rehabs to spot a "landu" or a person with a gambling addiction problem. Over the past decade their questionnaire are not structured to differentiate the discipline regular gambler and the landu. Pinkie brought in a crude one to the thread several years ago. It had rated most of our regular and disciplined gamblers as dangerous.

The recent questionnaire which XingCai brought up in Gambling Addiction does separate the pros from the punters. XingCai still see problems with the new improved guidelines when applied on those who are not willing to wash their hands from gambling. This explains the reason WhySee (our rehab guy) is facing so many problems trying to help the potentially hazardous gamblers.

XingCai take a whack at students lured by easy money until they gambled away their loan. This time she cited a Malaysian case of student using the PTPTN loans to gamble. This really irks me as I had been strict on minor gambling on our GGC thread. I wish WhySee could reach out to these young horns to tell them that backtracking is a viable option.

It would be appropriate to conclude this blog with an advice to students not to attempt to use their intellect to master gambling. This is where logic breaks down and emotion dominates.

More about students getting in trouble on XingCai's Webpage.

Commentary|Borgata Sues Phil Ivey $9.8 million

Charitable Ivey is like the hero in the God of Gambler movie. After knowing about Ivey's philanthropic heart, GGC had regarded him as the fictional character in flesh and blood. Not many gamblers are giving. Most of the time gamblers are looking for money to gamble. Ivey should reserve his giving heart for the needy. Crocksfords, owned by our homeland casino Genting, deserve not quarter from him.

By sparring Crocksford, nobody will be compassionate to Ivey. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City had commenced legal proceeding on Ivey. The way the media had twisted Ivey's words, it is only a matter of time before Ivey is seen as a low-down hustler. This will lead other casinos whom Ivey had whacked with edge sorting to join Borgata in the legal battle.

SavySeph look at the keywords that will most likely be twisted like a snake as Ivey case goes into the legal arena.

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Commentary | Borgata versus Phil Ivey

It is kinda whimsical that people see the casino as an expert in gambling. On the contrary, the casino needs to be taught a lesson by gamblers to become wiser. Gamblers should be proud about this because we educate the casino. Xingcai's latest breaking news commentary tells about the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City using faulty cards for a long time until Phil Ivey took advantage of the flaw with edge sorting.

We had previously covered edge sorting when our sour-grape homeland casino at Crocksford, Mayfair denied payment to Ivey. Edge sorting is a method to mark the cards without placing any physical markings on it. Xingcai covers Ivey's tactics using edge sorting and compared it with the crooked way.

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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.

More on XingCai's Webpage.