Would you like chips with that? (giggle)

Hello there, people with little else better to do. I am the cure!

I just saw an advert promoting an online casino. Now, the way I see it, advertising your online casino with a combination of 'potential' winnings and slick special effects is a bit paradoxical. Their main selling point is that you, the viewer, could possibly, if you were really lucky, win some money. But they gloss over the statistics because they don't really do much to promote the website. So roll up! Roll up! Over 2,000 people won money last year! Now, that sounds like a lot, but when you consider how many people must have played in that year, and that anything from 1p upwards counts as 'winning money', you realise that the statement is vague and misleading. Or it could be that I'm horrifically wrong - you are very likely to win money, and those 2,000 winners are a large fraction of the overall yearly players. But hold on - if the website's so good, why so few players? That makes no sense, now, does it? Must be a bit of a scam. Shock! Horror!

Anyroad, I'm drifting slightly from my initial point. They make these claims, claims that sound optimistic and encouraging if you're an idiot (or a gambler - oh, I see now), but spend inordinate amounts of moolah on the advert itself. They are pretty much waving money in your face.

"Look at all this cash! Where did all this come from, I wonder? It can't be yours, because we're literally giving away cash here at SuperTiltCasinoJackpot.com!"

I would put more faith in my potential success rate when playing on their site if they made the advert with National Accident Helpline actors, the roulette wheel from the 'Go For Broke' board game and edited it together on Windows Movie Maker.