‘Sharon’ has been addicted to poker machines ‘pokies’ since they first arrived in Australia in 1992.
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Through this animated documentary, she reveals the devastating impact gambling has had on her life. Her story culminates with an incident that pushes her over the edge: an encounter with her seven-year-old daughter and her precious piggy bank.
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Put a gambling block on your bank account opt out on all gambling sites so you can’t do online banking and cut up all your bank cards so you have no access to cash it has helped me a lot, I no longer can access cash to gamble. I pay for everything on my phone that I need and it works.
Addiction comes in many forms, including the devices you’re using to watch this video.
And then she took the money played for the last time won 1 millon in a night and payed for her daughter's collage loans with that money
Move to WA, no pokies!!!
You mean the electronic gaming machines in 1992. Poker machines have been around much longer.
Watched at 2x speed and the pace of this was still too slow. Art over substance
4 minutes in and I can already tell she's going to take zero accountability for anything that happened 😂😂
If it were up to me gambling would be outlawed. Im in the minority though.
case in point: once you hit your first jackpot, take those winnings and leave the casino.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with gambling / playing the lottery as part of a comprehensive, diversified wealth creation strategy.
Just like i don't understand why people are addicted to cigarettes because its so nasty and damage your organs, i never understood why people are addicted to gambling at the casino. I've been to the casino a couple of times and i found it kind of boring.
Luckily the second time, i won $500 and i was smart enough to walk out of there with my cash in my wallet.
Shoudlve played blackjack
The matimatical models getting a 250 000x on a slot machine is beyond human logics. Should be strictly banned, receiving the amount of dead spins will left the player in a black hole of loosing entire life and family, imagine only few players hit maxwin on a 5000x slot after spinnin 20-30 years. PRNG uses the most unlogical mathematical models to keep the player loosing, playing slots is more far dumber than drinking alcohol each day.
Casino is a big problem here in Philippines. They. Even advertise it in TV. What a shame! 😅😂😮
Non stop sound of machine..whispering to the machine. And even. Praying.. gee, Musical band. Play,n great entertainment.
What. Do u get! Penniless, headache, sleepless. Nights, so on and. So. Forth, Don’t. Even. Go to casino😮😮😂
What's the worst part about casinos is the complete lack of rationality…even in emotional compulsions
Next level dedication taking your kids money to the pokies 😭😭
Gambling should be illegal, sinful and evil to let people ruin their lives like this.
Bro if a jackpot isnt enough to win everything back just win the jackpot twice?
An exceptional work.
My aunt is going through this except hers is a scratch off addiction lottery tickets a video needs to be done on that now
i'm in this video
Rule of thumb. Left pocket what you started with. Right pocket with what you won.
Never use your winnings back into the machine. You dont win with whats already been won.
Let's go gambling!!!
aw dang it!
It always terrifies me that people so heartless as to build such exploitation machines exist
you have to be dumb to believe this hahaha
97% of gamblers quit right before they were about to win big
She quit right before winning big womp womp
25 years gambling? thats nothing, my degen mom's been gambling 45 years.
Sober people dont gamble, quit drinking ! Getting hammered is not awesome
More of a narrative than anything informative… Take a thumbs down.