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03-01-2009, 06:21 PM
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What will you do for National Problem Gambling Awareness Week?
The week of March 1-7 is an important week for all of us, as it is National Problem Gambling Awareness Week, brought to us by our fine friends at the National Problem Gambling Council.
Strange that there is no mention of the week here. If you need ideas on how to participate in the festivities this week, please refer to the guide, and let everyone else know how you will be celebrating the week. 
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03-01-2009, 06:32 PM
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03-01-2009, 06:32 PM
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Well, hell, today's shot. I guess I won't look for a line on the Cleveland-Atlanta game tonight.
As far as during the week, I'll abstain but I'm going to get involved next Saturday. Anyone who knows gambling would want to be involved in the SA Handicap card. NT
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03-01-2009, 06:33 PM
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"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'."
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03-01-2009, 06:47 PM
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Problem Gambling is a real problem and these people are addicted to the action and addicted to the chase and are usually not disciplined bettors.
I've seen it first hand with family members and friends, and it's not pretty. considering 2% of players actually beat this game, i'm sure plenty of our friends and colleagues and fellow posters should examine their/our wagering this week and every week! that being said, I really like Stealth Attack and Flaming Bullet in the 10th tomorrow at Portland! ex box!
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03-01-2009, 06:51 PM
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In all honesty, I talked to a guy last summer at a meeting from a UCLA Problem Gambling Research Group, and he said that they don't spend much time or effort dealing with horse racing issues. He said that there are far, far more problem gambling issues with lotteries and slot machines, and that problem gamblers in racing are generally into greyhound racing, because more people play that like lotteries.
I was surprised, though, to not find anything in the "agenda" of the group StopPredatoryGambling.org regarding racing, which only supports the contention that less problem gamblers are into racing.
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03-01-2009, 06:52 PM
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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03-01-2009, 06:55 PM
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I will hide vouchers around the track machines
and put on an early Easter Egg voucher hunt for these disabled. We will then slaughter a live pig in an audaciously non-Kosher fashion and partake in green eggs and ham. I apologize.
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03-01-2009, 06:57 PM
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Lose more money betting ny breds.
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03-01-2009, 07:10 PM
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03-01-2009, 07:34 PM
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the track, spend a least half an eon covering a multitude of superfecta combinations on one machine. Then proceed to insert every ticket after the race to discover that one came up a winner earning them $40 dollars in the superfecta pool, not realizing they spent $50 dollars wearing down the already faded button markings in the first place. You will not be able to indentify these criminals. They have no discernable fingerprints.
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03-01-2009, 10:49 PM
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I think everybody on this board should make it a point to go to your local casinos and lobby to get all problem gamblers out!!!!!!!!!Then you could try to convert them to horseplayers, we need to get handles up!!!!!!And fresh players who dont know a thing about horseracing would pump up the pools so we can get inflated payouts!!!!!!Oh wait, we still have to figure out who is going to win the races? S.O.B.
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03-01-2009, 11:56 PM
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