crazy stakes

[marcus russell]

thought id have a look at other online videos of gamers and i was like wtf!crazy starting balances of £50000 and £1000 bonus buys and £40 spins!i mean come on!a flutter here and there is fine but crazy gambling is fucking stupid

[Fatsax348]

Yup it’s mental and totally unrealistic to the normal person not much joy in watching those vids as it’s something most people will never do, should just with stakes upto £2 max

[marcus russell]

yea i only really do £2 stakes and set a limit of £300 a month tbf

[Partytimearena]

5 hours ago, marcus russell said:

thought id have a look at other online videos of gamers and i was like wtf!crazy starting balances of £50000 and £1000 bonus buys and £40 spins!i mean come on!a flutter here and there is fine but crazy gambling is fucking stupid

I wonder whose money they're playing with? Is it even real?

[TheKingInTheNorth]

1 hour ago, Partytimearena said:

I wonder whose money they're playing with? Is it even real?

Playing with the money they make from mug punters signing up through their affiliate links.... They get a cut if anything you lose, yup, lose! The literally want you to lose so they get more affiliate cash to feed their own habit!

[DaveM]

Fake money. No way they are making that much from sign ups

[marcus russell]

just stupid money really!yea maybe fake money

[Mentholdan]

When I made my initial post in another thread about these rediculous high stakes, the point I was making was that these guys are there own worse enemy. If they keep on doing £40/£50 & £100 spins then streaming will get banned eventually, either by the government or by them putting pressure on the likes of twitch and youtube to regulate it, and rightly so. It doesn't take an Einstein to work out why the streamers are doing it or what they want to get out of it. I've deleted my twitch app, that's how strongly I feel about it. 

[Vautour]

The Bandit videos where he was consistently gambling huge sums on the reel king ladder I found difficult to watch. The percentage of people who show a profit on slots must be very low so gambling those sums every few seconds just seems frightening and ridiculous.

[Skippy888]

They can ban them from twitch / FB etc but they could just go online with their own site. Far less accessible, but it's very difficult to ban stuff, you end up with a crazy policing task like Prohibition in the US. There are bigger issues the government will tackle first like Betting adverting/sponsorship in football.

The Bandit's vids are real IMO. but I'm highly doubtfully of those Malta guys. 

[marcus russell]

the bandit slots were the ones i was referring to when i put this discussion up!£40 stakes in reel king then gambling the bonus!i mean getting to £16k on the ladder then gambling is stupid beyond belief!

[Stormy]

It's difficult to know what to make of Bandit's videos, they seem genuine enough. I sometimes find them hard to watch and clearly there is other gambling going on that doesn't get shown, he even admits as much.

Not much entertainment in watching losing so understand why they have to be edited. Problem it it reinforces an unrealistic perception of the chance of winning when in reality it is hours of losing to maybe pick up one decent bonus win. Not much relevance to me as I can barely afford £2 stakes.

Bookies slots playing from cold seem to want to take a lot of money before giving out a decent bonus win. If a bonus drops in for little outlay 9/10 times it pays small.

[marcus russell]

yea i agree totally with the above comments!99% of gamers cant bare to lose £50 let alone 10s of thousands!some of bandits videos are unwatchable especially if he plays reel king all the time!

[The crisp man]

I used to love the bandits videos, they were so genuine. He used to play on £2 stake and most of the time finish down, but sometimes got a decent win, I always found myself rooting for him.

Then something changed, basically 90%+ of his videos ended in a win and I began to feel that it wasnt 100% genuine, either editing out bits or not being 100% genuine.  Ive not watched him for a while, but the last time I watched I think he was £40,000-£50,000 and still walked away in profit. 

He used to talk regularly about the issues he's had in the past with gambling, so to become an affiliate and have £40k to spaff on reel king and promote a positive result most of the time, doesnt in my mind promote responsible. That's not to say he isnt entertaining.

[marcus russell]

trouble is if you like reel king then his videos are for you!the constant swearing is a bit annoying at times tho