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pinnit2015

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  1. Gamban is only a site/device blocker,no? Do you mean Gamstop?
  2. An even simpler one Bet 365 and other Uk Bookies They ask for for nothing as E-Verified 4 corners, selfies if defo a Malta/MGA, Coco-pop licence requirement
  3. Probably best to just concern yourself with your own play and not anyone else's play
  4. Think what Coco is saying is what do you mean by bouncing? If it's Trustly etc it can only deposit what you have in your account, so how can a deposit bounce? (unless a chargeback)
  5. Is 20c even gambling? Christ, if reduced to that i'd have to fire the earth into the Sun
  6. There'll be no issue, as long as a decent casino - so, who is it? Fact u deposited more than ur limit - that's on them, you've breached no terms whatsoever
  7. Yeah, but it's not the post introducing the comp so, why should we expect them to find it?
  8. As someone with no skin in the game, to be fair, i have a bit of sympathy with the poster re the boost bet - i would personally read the original post re the comp and i don't think there would be expectation on them to scroll down etc to find out any 'clarifications' - whether that comes on page 1 or 1000 is, IMO, pretty irrelevant.
  9. I don't play anymore mate - well Mrs has some accounts still open so some freebies there but deposits from my own account are a thing of the past, otherwise i would
  10. Their history put to one side, PP aren't a bad provider of slots - the Zombie game IIRC can pay ok if you get the 3 on the board and the DH Megaways, like the original, isn't scared to pay out on half decent stakes. The one you collect the gold nuggests is pretty grim i think - get a full board of wilds and it pays poorly and those fish collection games are horrid IMO Good luck!
  11. On the plus point, bonus's, even in the crypto's are being phased out, so these issues will no longer be an issue Play with own money, withdraw own money
  12. 4p spins, 1 p spins.... Do casinos have the GDP of the UK?
  13. Is winning counting as a mechanic? Depends on your playing dreams i guess....some might not play a No Limit Slot for the fun in the mechanics of the game (half the time i find it impossible to work out what's going on and they lack, cos of that, the anticipation value a lot of the time) but they can spit out (even for UK players, monsters - see the latest, Disturbed which doesn't look like it needs a Bonus Buy for 55k odd x) 2-5 quid bets, some might be happy with 100x wins in a Netent etc on those stakes.... I played games like DOA, not for the actual game play, because lets face it, it's as dull as ditchwater but for the variance. Overall, the mechanics mean little to me - what i would say, is whilst true, the can annoy - PNG's games are famous for the 'anywhere but there...and yep, it lands there' Reel Strips v almost scratchcard like outcomes like jamming jars: again, not fussed as long as have potential to pay. Tumble games, not my favourite - again, like i mentioned, sometimes they serve to infuriate more than often but a games not good until you win on it and then it is... If you're a rep and want to see a truly awful mechanic then check out RAW games or Leander - certainly RAW make some of the worst games i've ever seen Other things like volatility, how the RTP is split between base and bonus games and the general balance of a game, that are more important.
  14. You'd be better using this HP One thing with them is their webcam quality etc is pretty *****, which in work situations isn't great. Apples are ok if you don't intend on doing much with them (though they've certainly upped their game with their own chips)
  15. Aside from the pay dispute, the use of AI is one of the pinch points for the Writers Strike in Hollywood - someone was saying an AI mocked up a 3 minute advert for a 'proposed/fake' Wes Anderson film and it was pretty much inline with his cinematic style/genuine looking (whether than 3 minutes can be stretched out to 90mins, not so sure) Being said, i think AI could write the scripts of a lot of Hallmark Films and you'd not see the difference.
  16. Yeah, we're told that, for example, number of players etc don't affect a games style/play - odd then that a lot of older games seem to be dead more than they used to. But that could be memory/confirmation bias It is pseudo/controlled-randomness - like Afi says, how it actually goes is a mystery to most - we can hear the lines trotted out: doesn't matter if someone wins big on one spin and how it doesn't alter the chances of someone else hitting on the next RNG out of the hat but, you know, who knows! Folk have often wondered: the RTP's must be monitored and corrective actions taken if too much standard deviation from the 96 etc but i believe the answer from people in the industry is no....but hmmm... Oft wonder why some games run on different platforms - eg Bonanza has about 3 - is it geo reasons? EG MG don't operate in some countries, NYX do, so it's a way of getting round that. It's something i think that A. you accept you will probably never really know how it's worked out but just choose to play or B. Think, oft, that is fishy and don't. Compensated games, online, which is what you kinda talk about are, seemly, prohibited online (as opposed to some physical AWP's that you'd see at a seaside town/pub, i believe - where, due to bugs many moons ago, you could literally force, in some circumstances, the machine to payout)
  17. There's a lot of instances where you have to wonder just how data security conscious casinos are: Eg. those that still insist you send information via email....unencrypted email? Sure, what can go wrong.....If i told my bank to start exchanges sensitive info via my Outlook account I'd be met with a: no chance. How likely are they to restrict access to the info to small, vetted, employees? er.......Bare in mind as well, a lot of the staff in these places aren't exactly paid mega money so it couldn't be hard for groups to target such staff with the promise of ££££ if they slipped them a few details (I'm sure it happens as i know it happens elsewhere) When GDPR came out, particularly around data minimisation, it was almost an acknowledge that your data will be leaked (and we've seen it happen with large companies with greater security protocols than a casino) so the best thing you can do is LIMIT what is shared/given to you. What do some casino's do? They refuse documents as they aren't unredacted, even though they don't actually need THAT other data if you send in (which is in itself a possible breach of data laws). -ergo increasing their data leak risk. Pretty sure some casino hold more info and data points on you than your mortgage provider - which, when you think about it, is pretty insane.
  18. Few reasons why we played there, despite the not so great aspects - one of the few - might well still be, not played there for 3 plus years - who used to give a lot of offers so it was a trade off (though they have a lot of restricted games i think) A few times as well they set free spins (at 50 spins): was meant to be 50p a spin, but set it (wrongly) with a stake value of 5 quid - kerching - they actually honoured the 500 quid cash out (wager free) - think the other one was 300 out (though later on they started to disallow the w/d's where they made a mistake) Problem with them is that if you're used to other places paying quicker, have a slicker site (i think theirs is quite lumpy), better support etc you go to SON and notice a difference.....
  19. They're kinda like White Hat Gaming - slow payers, slow verifiers but they're not a dodgy Island joint. Using pound signs so presume UK? Technically you should be verified before you're able make a deposit - ID wise. (though i dont see many UK casinos adopting this - a few stop you, but not many). Their support is woeful - you might wait a while to get a response and by the time you do, probably already verified - took them 72 plus hours for me when i played there a few years ago If it's like some of their other casino groups i don't think you can see that you're verified (not very useful Playojo) so there's a chance you might well be now (they email to say you are though)
  20. Bit of a linkage there as well - poor casino practices gave weight to allowing some 'pressure groups' to call them out as not doing x,y,z: which in turn, brings in the regulator who, to look like they're all powerful, use a sledge hammer to crack a nut. Shouldn't really be a surprise that where some casinos specifically use data/marketing to target addicts there won't be some backdraft on the industry. You kind of see that in other areas where there is de-regulation - companies 'trusted' to monitor themselves, they don't and then comes the call for regulation when folk realise they're in a viper's nest. There must be some data on links between RTP drops and addiction - for me personally, if i had a good run on a deposit but never got to take anything out, but had play time - re depositing to play right again doesn't enter my head. If folk are busting out in record times then there comes that temptation to re-depo. The fact these various white papers never even mention RTP, kinda says it all. The guise of 'we're here to protect players as a casino'm is a joke as well: - protecting them from having casino's randomly pulling out: selfie on ur street nonsense? - protecting them from casinos using their own t's and c's (many of which are back of a ***** packet) to deny legit payouts -protecting them from: hand over your companies accounts before we process withdrawals Meh
  21. It's hard to think of a lot more industries that have really capitulated over the years - the one you're looking at today has shifted so widely from that it was, even back in 2016. Hard to pinpoint any sole reason, sort of like a melting pot between Government intervention (USA/Australia etc), inept Regulators (UKGC), increased political influence, a wider societal element (culture of players), some casinos going public (increased shareholder pressure) and casino practices in general. It'll still continue though, albeit in a more slimmed down (a la Monarchy) form - certainly here in the UK. The real blow will be any limits to high rollers - who are pretty much the lifeblood of the slot element of a casino. Easy to think back with rose tints but in 2013/14 you could deposit, maybe grab yourself a perk to keep playing for long (i remember playing MG games over a weekend with 50 quid deposits), play slots that weren't robbing you at <90% and at a proposed 5 seconds a spin, and never get asked for a P60. Only speak from here but one thing that had improved is the payout speed but casino's misuse their 'document request at withdrawal' still. You were spoilt for choice as well here years ago - had 50 to put in and probably had a good 8-10 casinos to choose from, depending on what perk you fancied. Money certainly goes nowhere near as far as it did - at 88% RTP's that's a mathematical given. For a lot of people it's time to move on and i don't blame them
  22. The reform of the Gambling Act in the UK, whilst not delivering a full KO to the regulated market here, will certainly have the count at 8. Still tbc but looking like 5 seconds between spins? Wtf - 5 second spins with no autoplay. That's a chore, not a hobby. No bonus's? Meh - hardly is any now anyhow cos of a few reasons Enhanced affordability checks which is basically saying: open banking, so someone on minimum wage can pretend to know what they're looking at. Stakes between 2-15 quid: they stopped short of a max stake of say 2 quid across the board. What the UKGC are doing is taking some headline grabbers: Someone loses 70k in 5 hours etc and using these, which i'm sure are hardly in a majority of cases, to dictate policy. They even say: well, 8/10 players will not be subject to enhanced checks - so, the patterns of the 20% are driving policy changes that are so draconian they are to the point of madness. (checks in the background are mentioned which means soft searches for i imagine, pretty much everyone though) My favourite though was enhanced powers to get ISP's to block certain off shore gambling companies...er, VPN's? That makes that new action pretty much pointless. 'Court Action' against black market sites? Arf, Arf - court against against a money laundering operation whose business is registered to a shed in Curacao? Good luck with that. New Ombudsman to allow redress to punters where casino's have failing with respect to player protection - can see them being flooded already with people crying about having lost - dunno if it'll cover general operator incompetence mind you. meanwhile, as places like Willy Hill offer up their 86% slots, not a peep (if they're that concerned about protecting players they should at least look at that because %'s like that are verging on robbery)
  23. Think Afi and BJ need a good old fashioned boxing match to sort out their differences. It's how we used to sort grievances out before the Liberals seized control
  24. And what's wrong with that? If casinos don't want people accepting bonus's they, er, simply shouldn't offer them - you can't critique someone for looking them out. Not now, but in the past i was the same. As some who bets 2c a bet, i'd have thought you, more than most, would understand in getting 'bang for you buck'
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