Oregambling 6: How to know when they've had enough.

Last night was my kiss-off to the Oregon State Lottery's grand larceny. They've had enough.  Enough of:My MoneyMy TimeMy Shameful Emotions as I Creep Past the Bar Full of Strangers, Having Just Lost My Entire Bank Account.My adrenaline.&

Posted By tips4service on July 22, 2008, 6:12 am

Oregambling 5. Signs that it is a bad night to play the Video Lottery Machines of Self-Destruction.

My now-ex boyfriend is leaving Oregon to get away from the Video Lottery Death Machines, which suck out your bone marrow, and also to get away from all the remodeling projects he started in our house, which I am not left to deal with. Bless him! 

Posted By tips4service on July 20, 2008, 7:41 am

Oregambling 3, story remains the same, new players enter the game

Like a generation of Manchurian Candidates, the youth of today seem to have suddenly discovered video poker. Everytime I go out to play the video poker machines (and by "play" I mean lose all the money I have in the world), there are more y

Posted By tips4service on April 5, 2008, 6:50 am

Oregambling 2, Machines are off today... and yesterday

So, in the first post I wrote on surfing the Video Lottery in Oregon, I told you that I'd let you in on a secret, and that it had to do with the lie that the Video Lottery is a purely random system. That is to say, the state of Oregon tells us th

Posted By tips4service on March 21, 2008, 12:55 am

Oregambling

You know them. The gray people, hunched over the video lottery terminals. They smoke, usually, and stare straight into the eyes of the beast. Time after time they feed the machines another bill, and push the button, and watch the pictures spin, and p

Posted By tips4service on March 19, 2008, 4:21 am