Gambling & Betting

Point that finger at me ----- PLEASE!!!!

Advantages: Chance of getting rich overnight.
Disadvantages: As a form of gambling it can be addictive.

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." -= Spike Milligan The National Lottery keep telling me ---"It could be you" - but it never is, well never with more than a tenner anyway, but I still live in hope!! The National Lottery in the United Kingdom is run by the Camelot Group, and started on 19 November 1994. I can remember well the night it started - we had visitors for dinner and I bought everyone a ...
...as the numbers were drawn - needless to say none of us were winners!! And do you remember Mystic Meg?? My funniest ever memory of the lottery was one saturday night - around 15 years ago - when my three (then) teenage daughters and their friend were getting ready for their Saturday night out( the words small, whore's and handbag spring to mind!!) when the Lottery draw came on TV. Suddenly a touring caravan came in view, with Mystic Meg sitting on ...

oldchem 05.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of national-lottery.co.uk

Bet against strangers as if they were friends

Advantages: Better odds, refer-a-friend, the lay system
Disadvantages: Irritating interface

Betfair is a bookmakers that is not actually a bookmakers at all- it is rather a 'bet exchange', or "betting as it should be" as the slogan goes, like bets between friends, but it takes 5% commission on all winnings something that really grated me. It can do this because it is internet only, and like most things the internet has bought us it is marginally better than real life (here represented by grotty betting shops), but still nothing to enthuse ...
...to provide an average of 20% better odds (although it does not seem noticeable while you are playing it, and of course they take 5% of your winnings), they give you a free £25 bet (once you have bet £25), they will give you £25 (used to be £15) for referring a friend (dependent upon them fulfilling some criteria), in-play betting, and a loyalty bonus points scheme that gives you a discount on future bets (the points are very hard to come by, you ...

boredstudent180 29.07.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of betfair.com

Roll Up, Roll Up, Bingo, Games & Much More!

Advantages: Great site, easy to use, cash match on first deposit.
Disadvantages: Some of the prizes are very small.

tombola.com is an online bingo and gaming site. To join up is simple you just need to create a username, password etc and provide some basic details about yourself. They have a long term offer running that when you create a new account and deposit £25 they will match your deposit thus giving you £50.00 to play with. There are quite a few games on the site and more are due in the future according to people who chat in the bingo rooms. They have bingo ...
...the website is frequently advertised during the daytime so you may well have heard their adverts already. There are four versions of bingo with various balls called and patterns required to win either the one line, two line or full house prizes. You can choose for the numbers to be daubed for you or to do it all manually yourself. There is also games such as battleships and cinco so there should be something for most people if you don't like to play ...

katyeverett 22.06.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of tombola.com

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned

Advantages: The suspense
Disadvantages: The sure way of getting nothing from something

If you are not just a little scared when you enter a ladrokes, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough. I went to Ladbrokes the other day to place a bet on a horse i recieved a tip about and saw that you could play various cames including roulette and blackjack. I gave up fast on the computerised Blackjack because i personally believe it is rigged. Yes i did win 1.50 but that was only because i went against the rules of blackjack. ...
...in Ladbrokes is great fun as it only costs 20p per place with the minimum bet of just one pound. So having a flutter will only cost you a pound. But there is an old proverb about gambling. With gambling there is always a fool and a thief. A little harsh i know! Especially as of late i have been rather successful at their games but as i write this review i realise that perhaps the safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it ...

gumjoy 23.03.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of ladbrokes.com

Win someone else's money

Advantages: Better odds than bookmakers. You're up against people like yourself. Site runs beautifully on PCs.
Disadvantages: Won't work on a Mac. Commission on bets and withdrawals maybe a bit high.

Betting has never been a way of making money but having money at stake on something (for example the recent England vs Greece game), can make it so much more exciting. Since the Internet betting revolution began most of my online bets have been made at Flutter.com. The simple reason being that I take far more pleasure out of winning someone else’s money than that of a bookmaker. On the other hand if I lose I’m safe in the knowledge that my money ...
...than Ladbrokes’ favourite Swiss bank account. The concept is, I’ve found, initially quite difficult to grasp. Imagine though a simple bet you make in the office with a colleague as to whether he will pull a certain female that evening. The bets for a tenner, i.e. if he scores you give him a tenner and if he doesn’t he gives you a tenner. Naturally the bird just wants to be his friend and you’re a tenner up the next morning. More to the point though ...

Briz_Hatchings 29.10.2001 · Read Full Review
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Review of flutter.com