Play real pokies less?

[Admin1]

Does playing Pokie Magic save you money? How much!? How much time do you spend playing Pokie Magic?

[Joe]

I would easily spend nearly $150 a week playing at the local RSL. These days I may visit once a month and spend the odd $20. $130 a month on average in my pocket instead of the govt. btw I like Monster Money the best. Playing on the computer at home is just as good.

[Adam]

The following link shows the amount of money lost by people in just one State in Australia to pokies:
Click here for link (http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6000845%255E2682,00.html)

Its quite amazing.

[Fanatic]

If I lost $200 a week on average I would not be surprised. Ten grand a year.

That was the old days.....now I don't even bother to go out. If those Adelaidians are losing that much money, how much is the whole of Australia putting in the maw of the machines in a year /webboard/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Yanni]

I dont have much that I can afford to lose so therefore had to limit my enjoyment for playing the pokies. Now I can play to my hearts content. With no guilty conscience. /webboard/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Joe]

Well, the Aussies win at cricket, footy and swimming, why not gambling?

Yahoo Gambling Story Link (http://in.news.yahoo.com/030225/139/21io6.html)

Yay us.

[Symo]

I used to go to the poikes on a daily basis and probably spend abt $300 a week then it got to the stage that I was just shoving all my pay check down the mouth of a pokie machine....I was really bad. BUT since I stumbled across Pokie Magic I am now down to $60 a week......Thank you, Thank you for developing such brilliant games. I hope that there is a LOT more to come. /webboard/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Yanni]

You read all these horror stories about the amount of money gambled on poker machines or slots. What I would like to know is just much of this money is going into the government coffers?

[Symo]

A really good Question /webboard/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Spyone1 (Greg)]

I tend to fire up one of the Pokie Magic games when I am downloading (on a dial-up...takes forever) or converting a VCD or something like that.
Usually a couple of hours a day, minimum.

[Admin1]

Good to hear Greg! The only thing is: Pokie Magic when running utilises 100% of the CPU especially when spinning the reels.

How does this affect the VCD conversion speed?

Also, do you leave the game on autoplay?

[Spyone1 (Greg)]

Funnily enough, it doesn't seem to take all the CPU. The VCD conversion (well, from AVI to MPEG really) took about double the normal time when I had Monster Money running in the foreground. (conversion took 2.5 hours instead of 1.3 hours).
I either had autoplay on, or was hitting the enter key for pays or every second spin.