I started the giant task of getting ready to upload pictures to the image manager for the Fake Birthday Party – the party wasn’t a fake, the birthday was. Bad Beat? Or just another delay in the fabric of time? The programmers moved PokerWorks to a new server today, as they did, the blogs were in and out of commission, all appear to be working now. When my main blog page was accessed, it was a bunch of giant text. That was fixed. I believe the programmers are all tucked in for the night as they are nine hours ahead of me. When I tried to access the image manager, I got an error, apparently no pictures until tomorrow so the birthday party post is post-poned.
So let me address this tasty, little morsel about morality. I hate it! In a way I can liken it to dealing poker and listening to a player state that all dealers were stupid and he wouldn’t tip them because all they did was go gamble their money away as he’d seen them at the Sport’s Book, machines, and table games on too many occasions. Who was that guy? Sid the Kid! Umnhnnhhh. Does that mean if you are a lawyer, or a service clerk, or a politician that you should be able to throw your money away in a bar on a machine? Or is the fact that taxpayers pay the costs of welfare and that money should not be spent on gambling?

Who judges what another person does with their income? What is the fine for blowing off your rent in a machine at the bar, or the craps table, or the sports book, or in a poker room, or the titty bar down the street, or maxing out your credit cards until you have to file bankruptcy?
Is it OK to remove poker machines and then allow the newly sanctioned government keno lottery games? How do we put a padlock on the money people spend and where or how they spend it?

A lot of people are looking for the Cinderella story, especially ones with no or low income. As far as whether it’s right or not, that doesn’t matter, the point is that they are still looking. If one source of gambling is removed from their choice, they will find another. It’s hard to save someone from themselves if they don’t want to be saved. If you close one door, they’ll find a crack in the floor and it may be much more harmful than the door was. At least the door is regulated.