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Online Gambling Running Out of Steam

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fewer-suckers-to-rob-at-the-tables dept.

dreamchaser writes "After a meteoric rise, online gambling companies appear to be taking a beating now with the loss of 33% in PartyGaming stock. Apparently the novelty is wearing off and no new players can be found. Why have you stopped playing?"

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  1. For starters by bigwavejas · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they want me to play they're going to have to put the bugs back into the progy. We're talking back-to-back Royal Flushes and hitting the refresh button on the payout...doubling your money

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    "Simplify, simplify, simplify!" Thoreau
  2. World of Warcraft by pirula · · Score: 2, Funny

    the title says it all.

  3. Because I'm Always Buying by FearTheFrail · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because I have played poker with PartyGaming on our usual poker night, once a week for the past six months, and not once has it offered to buy the pretzels and beer.

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    ___ In the words of Gen. Douglas McArthur: "I'll be right back."
  4. nothing to worry about by circletimessquare · · Score: 2, Funny

    the only thing that would keep someone from gambling is intelligence

    luckily, there is a permanent shortage of that in the world, so online gambling has a rosy future

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  5. I stopped playing because... by craXORjack · · Score: 5, Funny

    My pokerbot started stinking up the house smoking those big stoagies, staying up for days at a time, using my credit cards on porn sites, having hookers come to the house, and drinking up all my liquor. Things just got out of hand.

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    Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
  6. Losing money in a casino is fine by dreemernj · · Score: 1, Funny

    But losing it at home is just to depressing to to cope with :-(

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    1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
  7. Re:Did people actually used to do that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Or smart enough?

  8. It would be ironic ... by Tx · · Score: 3, Funny

    It would be ironic if all the gamblers stopped playing poker so they could bet their poker money on partygaming.com stocks instead :).

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    Oh no... it's the future.
  9. "Why have you stopped playing?" by switcha · · Score: 2, Funny

    Duh. I ran out of money.

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    You know what? ... A little club soda *did* get that out!
  10. Re:I never started playing. by telstar · · Score: 2, Funny
    Plus, at home, I don't get scantily-clad babes serving me free drinks
    Don't you mean scantily-clad ancient crones serving free water with a hint of color that might be booze (at least, you hope is some kind of booze because water really shouldn't be that color)?


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    Mike
    "Swingers"
  11. Re:One Reason by Sheik+Yerbouti · · Score: 4, Funny

    Poor married grad student? man you do like to gamble.

  12. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It also said "bite my shiny, metal ass" a lot, too.

  13. Re:No Lack of Suckers by Rirath.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're going to mention AOL and n00bs, you may want to avoid the use of "ppl".

    people. It's three more characters, saving a mere 9 keystrokes out of the nearly 400 you already used to type that post.