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“Mary” was a poster child for the warning signs of compulsive gambling. It would have been obvious to anyone that she had a serious problem. But not to Mary. At least not until one day in 2009, as she sat in her car outside a Minnesota casino.

A decade before, Mary had discovered gambling could be a “wonderful way to totally escape.” In the years since, she had also found it be a path to mental and financial ruin. But on this day, as she stared through her car window at the casino, she could think of only one thing: “I’m sick and tired and of being sick and tired.”

“Emotionally, gambling had become a chore,” Mary says. “I was so scared that I was going to end up doing this for another 20 or 30 years. I was scared that I was going to get fired from my job. I was scared that I was going to end up in jail.”

She wanted to stop. But what scared Mary most was that she couldn’t — or that she didn’t know how. “I was on auto-pilot,” she says. “I had no ability to stop. I couldn’t limit the time or the money I was spending on gambling.”

It hadn’t always been that way. At first, Mary had a lot of fun playing the slots. “But I quickly discovered I had no control,” she says.

Once she started gambling in the late 1990s, it wasn’t long before Mary was visiting the casino three or four times a week, burning through several hundred dollars each trip. She took cash advances from her credit cards, then couldn’t make the payments.

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“I went for eight or nine months without gambling, but that was because I didn’t have access to any money,” she says. “Finally, things were better, and I wondered what would happen if I went back to the casino. I found out. Within four days, I had overdrawn my bank account and they closed it out. I was out of control again.”

Mary began “borrowing” funds from the company where she was president and chief executive, and because of her position there, she was able to take the money and pay it back without anyone knowing.

That worked until she realized she had taken more than she could repay.

Even at that point, with the walls closing in on her, Mary says “I didn’t want to admit I was a compulsive gambler. I didn’t want to say it out loud. It’s hard to admit you’re a liar and a cheat and a thief.”

But she did. Instead of getting out of her car and going into the casino, she went to work. And she told her business partner everything that was going on.

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With the support of her company, she went to a meeting of Gamblers Anonymous and found a sponsor. But she also realized she needed more help than GA would provide. She checked into the Keystone Treatment Center in Canton, S.D., and spent a month there.

“The people at GA took me under their wing, and they didn’t treat me like a ‘bad person,’” she says. “And the people at Keystone saved my life.”

“I kept thinking I was something special, that my situation was unique,” Mary says. “But I wasn’t, and it wasn’t.”

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After leaving Keystone, Mary returned to Minnesota to embark on her aftercare program. One of the first things she did was meet with her company’s board of directors. “I was terrified,” she says. “But they gave me a second chance. These were people I had lied to, and had manipulated. They wanted me to prove I was committed — but they gave me a second chance.”

After 18 months in recovery, Mary remains committed. “I’m paying back what I owe, and I go to GA meetings a couple of times a week,” she says. “It’s so important; it’s essential to me to have recovering people in my life.”

She’s where she is today, Mary says, because of two reasons. “It’s my higher power, and because of some very kind people who saw good things in me, but knew I needed help.”

“When I first went to GA,” she explains, “I couldn’t believe these people had been compulsive gamblers. I couldn’t understand it, because they were happy. Now I know.”

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The casinos here in Ontario Canada are all regulated by the AGCO. Also known as the OLG. No one wins with the OLG. They are just a greedy organization that does everything behind closed doors.
They silently lowered payback percentages last year without anyone knowing. How I found out is the fine print on their mismanaged website. I figured they were up to something when there was a sudden 'software upgrade' implemented on many of their slot machines across the province. With the pandemic shutting everything down again,who knows what they are doing now. I don't trust them one bit.

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Last year the OLG spent millions redoing their online casino (coding, rebranding, marketing, and launch mostly), which has been a disaster since launch back in Sept. Biggest issue (still a problem) is the game kicks you out after 5 minutes. They still only host IGT/SG platforms (never got Blueprint like we anticipated). And they only release two games once every few weeks. I for one don't play on the site as you never win on there. Also the payouts are slow.

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There's Seneca across the river, but they are just as bad (if not worse). Seem some questionable things done there in the past. For example, one time I saw them removing machines and replacing them with the exact same looking machines (but they were not the same). I also noticed that Seneca does an large amount of game changes. They tend to over saturate one type of game (and take the variety out). Eg: they must have like 40 stinkin rich games in the new cabinets (but remove old it games and still leave the old ones too). Seneca in the past few years has removed what was considered the 'best mix of older slot games' and replaced them with new money tight games that are all the same. They really butchured the game selection.

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They bought hundreds of new machines (from questionable funds) but never once invested in their players tracking systems. By far the worst. Half of the time it never reads your card and you don't get credit for play.
Anything further out tends to payout better. I been visiting Batavia Downs in NY state more as I find my money last longer (than Seneca). They tend to have a better selection of older games there (and even new ones too).
My favorite would have to be Turningstone. Its a ways out there, but its larger and has a great mix of older and newer.
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