Horror Story

[HorusHunter]

If you feel unlucky, I challenge you to beat what happened to me yesterday- I must be the most unlucky c*** in the world for what I describe below to have happened to me!  
 

I had been using 888 all night after winning on MrQ’s.  Woke up In the morning and played Monopoly Live and won about £300.  Did the big grocery shopping and lost my £300 profit back and decided since I had money in there already, I’ll use my 888 poker account via the app.  
 

The trouble is that 888’s poker app is s*** when you switch it to casino on live games.  For some reason it doesn’t display the bet side of things unless you press the X on the top left then you have to quickly place your chips before it switches back to full screen on live casino.  it’s really annoying and tricky to do but I thought it’ll be fine when I stick it on auto play.  
 

I was down another $150 and was doing a $24 bet, 4 on 5, 4 on 10 and 8 each on the rolls.  I had just added a chip to all 4 places a spin ago and reconfirmed the auto play… it hit 4 rolls… BUT IT HAD NOT PLACED MY BET!!!!!  🤬🤬🤬 why?  Because of that stupid reality check reminder which I could not see nor did I hear because of this ridiculous switching thing it does on this crappy poker app!  Oh and guess how much it paid?  Sod’s Law!  183X!  $1440 profit down the drain plus a tilt session that lost me another £600!  
 

I wrote an email to complain but I know they won’t give me a penny or a cent!  I could have deposited into the casino app itself and not had this issue but I already had money in the poker app and you don’t get paid in weekends by the tramps at 888.  
Of course, if I had played on the casino app I’d have been getting the same units in £s rather than $s and won even more money.  
 

So basically I missed one spin and that spin was the 183X!  Sick!!!

 

 

 

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Ouch. Just ouch. I'm sorry. 😞

[Mentholdan]

Gambling is hard work, especially on line, it requires a high level of concentration and you need your wits about you. It's quite common to have a headache after a gambling session, from the focus needed and from the screen if you are playing on line. I play in poker tourneys at my local poker club. When I know I'm going to play at the club I make sure I'm well rested. It's no good doing a day's work and then playing in a 8 hour tourney the same evening. 

I feel for you and your rotten luck but you have to be on the ball. The on line casinos shouldn't put reality checks on the screen whilst a game is in progress, it's bad form. 

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What do you mean by reality checks?

[BlindHaze]

1 hour ago, e_abrams said:

What do you mean by reality checks?

Some sites come up with warnings like you see on the FOBTs saying ‘you’ve been playing 20 minutes and inserted £100’. I’ve not come across them online though.

[BlindHaze]

On 2/3/2022 at 6:20 PM, Mentholdan said:

Gambling is hard work, especially on line, it requires a high level of concentration and you need your wits about you. It's quite common to have a headache after a gambling session, from the focus needed and from the screen if you are playing on line. I play in poker tourneys at my local poker club. When I know I'm going to play at the club I make sure I'm well rested. It's no good doing a day's work and then playing in a 8 hour tourney the same evening. 

I feel for you and your rotten luck but you have to be on the ball. The on line casinos shouldn't put reality checks on the screen whilst a game is in progress, it's bad form. 

Funnily enough, I was completely the opposite when it came to tournament poker. Used to go on the cheapo Monday night at Genting straight from work if I were off the next day. Lost more than I won, but it was a really nice crowd, I’d always know at least 10 of them. If you made it deep, it could be 3am by the time you left. I think I was just there for the beer and the company really. 

I think it was about £10 to enter and £10 if you wanted to top up after the first break. And £10 to buy back in if you went bust in the first session. Small fry which is why most people took it quite lightheartedly. 
 

 

[Mentholdan]

On 12/18/2021 at 6:52 AM, HorusHunter said:

If you feel unlucky, I challenge you to beat what happened to me yesterday- I must be the most unlucky c*** in the world for what I describe below to have happened to me!  
 

I had been using 888 all night after winning on MrQ’s.  Woke up In the morning and played Monopoly Live and won about £300.  Did the big grocery shopping and lost my £300 profit back and decided since I had money in there already, I’ll use my 888 poker account via the app.  
 

The trouble is that 888’s poker app is s*** when you switch it to casino on live games.  For some reason it doesn’t display the bet side of things unless you press the X on the top left then you have to quickly place your chips before it switches back to full screen on live casino.  it’s really annoying and tricky to do but I thought it’ll be fine when I stick it on auto play.  
 

I was down another $150 and was doing a $24 bet, 4 on 5, 4 on 10 and 8 each on the rolls.  I had just added a chip to all 4 places a spin ago and reconfirmed the auto play… it hit 4 rolls… BUT IT HAD NOT PLACED MY BET!!!!!  🤬🤬🤬 why?  Because of that stupid reality check reminder which I could not see nor did I hear because of this ridiculous switching thing it does on this crappy poker app!  Oh and guess how much it paid?  Sod’s Law!  183X!  $1440 profit down the drain plus a tilt session that lost me another £600!  
 

I wrote an email to complain but I know they won’t give me a penny or a cent!  I could have deposited into the casino app itself and not had this issue but I already had money in the poker app and you don’t get paid in weekends by the tramps at 888.  
Of course, if I had played on the casino app I’d have been getting the same units in £s rather than $s and won even more money.  
 

So basically I missed one spin and that spin was the 183X!  Sick!!!

 

 

 

You think you're unlucky??? My next door Neighbours TV interferes with my electric drill. 

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21 hours ago, BlindHaze said:

Some sites come up with warnings like you see on the FOBTs saying ‘you’ve been playing 20 minutes and inserted £100’. I’ve not come across them online though.

Oh, I see! Thank you for clarifying that for me!