Comments on: Online Gambling Causing Credit Card Debt

By: BackgammonPit.com

BackgammonPit.com — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:45:17 +0000

Funny, the media and celebrities are blamed once again. How about people making their own choices and (hopefully) using some common sense?

By: StatikKling

StatikKling — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:04:21 +0000

“I bet this guy just got his Aces cracked on a .05/.10 limit hold em table.”

I hate it when that happens and I too write a story about gibberish (now with extra nonsense!!!11!onehundredeleven!!1) afterwards.

By: dugglebogey

dugglebogey — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:23:32 +0000

“Online gambling is being seen as pushing up consumer debts and thatâ€™s not good for the economy.”

Whenever someone says “is being seen as” instead of “is,” you can be 99.9% sure he is totally full of shit.

By: Drizztdj

Drizztdj — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:11:55 +0000

I bet this guy just got his Aces cracked on a .05/.10 limit hold em table.

Poor fella.

By: StudioGlyphic

StudioGlyphic — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:08:00 +0000

If I could use my AmEx on a gambling site, I’d charge the hell out of it, rack up points, then withdraw the money to my bank account to pay off the balance. Just like PayPal in the old days.

By: Randy G

Randy G — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:11:18 +0000

This is a classic write-up of gambling and poker by someone who knows nothing of what he speaks. It’s kind of like the Ball State sports report done by not only someone new to broadcast TV news, but also someone who knows little about sports. Good find. It is basically just another example of people in modern society not having the discipline and self-control to manage their money, which is in no short supply these days. The end result is these people trying to supposedly “recoup” their losses will just enhance the bottom line for those that play online poker as a profession and that poker is not much of a gamble.

By: cc

cc — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:07:52 +0000

This also assumes that you can ever get a credit card company to let you deposit into a poker site, a feat that I’ve desparately tried only to never be able to accomplish it (figured it would be easier to explain to my wife than a withdrawal from our checking account).

By: Pokerwolf

Pokerwolf — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:09:01 +0000

This whole post sniffs of “come give me your business, given the website. It sounds like this doofus is appealing to gamblers and using the poker boom to try to boost his own sales.

Nice and hypocritical of him to do so.