Betting shops

[GX Blue]

Betting shops are full of dossers and losers. Thank Christ for online gambling. Be a cold day in hell I pop in a shop again.

 

[hammocity]

He used to try and put it on the nose on high odd horses. 25/1 and upwards. usually they said no but on occasion he was allowed.

Did you use to wander into the other shops to put a bet on to see how many slips they had shifted in a week? The 2 other bookies in the small town I worked used to do it as well, in the end we just used to meet in the pub with a slip each and have a beer.

We also had loads of cash just sitting around. And yes, being a single-ish man at the time meant a few of the cashiers were fair game.

Yep, the checking of other shops, if I saw another Manager (you get to know them) I used to do the same just tell them our turnover and slippage in return for their info.

I worked all over the North West but ended up running the Area Office in Burnage, had the pick off the cashiers as I was responsible for the staffing of around 30 shops, some absolute crackers (hard to believe when you see the munters who work in shops these days).

One young Saturday girl Helen had such a short skirt and her cleavage on show one day we had punters in who’d never bet before. When she was around 19 she was telling me about how she had shagged a lad from college in a woods the day before and she had got a bit enthusiastic and ended up with pine needles stuck in her arse, I couldn’t stand up from behind my desk for a while.

They were great days and I ended up with a lovely Cashier for a while but we split up through my fault (too many nights out with the lads). It was a decent job at the time, good but not great wages. I’d hate to work in the shops now, it’s changed so much.

Where did you work Bob?

 

[BimboBob]

Yep, the checking of other shops, if I saw another Manager (you get to know them) I used to do the same just tell them our turnover and slippage in return for their info.

I worked all over the North West but ended up running the Area Office in Burnage, had the pick off the cashiers as I was responsible for the staffing of around 30 shops, some absolute crackers (hard to believe when you see the munters who work in shops these days).

One young Saturday girl Helen had such a short skirt and her cleavage on show one day we had punters in who’d never bet before. When she was around 19 she was telling me about how she had shagged a lad from college in a woods the day before and she had got a bit enthusiastic and ended up with pine needles stuck in her arse, I couldn’t stand up from behind my desk for a while.

They were great days and I ended up with a lovely Cashier for a while but we split up through my fault (too many nights out with the lads). It was a decent job at the time, good but not great wages. I’d hate to work in the shops now, it’s changed so much.

Where did you work Bob?

South Coast. Littlehampton and Bognor. Bognor was horrible, flooded by the Butlins lot at weekends.

 

[Gabriel]

It’s not an Industry I’d like to work in now, drug money laundering, open at night and Epos machines controlling everything from calculating bets, cash flow and handling liabilities. .

I had no idea about that. Is it as described in this report, admittedly old, or is it done differently?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/08/gambling-machines-drug-money-laundering-bookies

 

[worsleyweb]

Can someone explain this to me. If you have a load of drug money how does putting it on a bet make it clean??

 

[kippax4ever]

Betting shops are full of dossers and losers. Thank Christ for online gambling. Be a cold day in hell I pop in a shop again.

Be a cold day in hell I pop in a shop again
-40 tomorrow

 

[mikemcfc]

Poker was designated a game of skill by a US Court in 2012. There is an element of luck in any poker game but the fact there are Poker Professionals who earn their living from the game confirms the skill element.

Other gambling like slots, bingo and roulette are pure gambling games, there are no professionals making a living from those as they are a game of chance not skill.

really? like i didn't know, but that's fine.
but like i said, Poker is different, but it's still gambling, just because some have skills it doesn't mean that non-skilled addicted gamblers won't chase the action because at the other end of the spectrum they always will, even in poker, everyone knows that. As long as there is an outlet for any type of gambling it can be destructive, but the question isn't what any jurisdiction thinks it is. you said gambling is for losers, yet do you approve of poker gambling then? Not judging here, as like I said i like a good poker game, but it's gambling.

 

[m7mcfc]

Can someone explain this to me. If you have a load of drug money how does putting it on a bet make it clean??

On the crack machines put say £500 of your heroin dealing money in. Have a couple of £5.00 spins then cash out. The receipt will say winnings £490 or more if you won on your couple of spins. Happy days your money is no longer from selling deals on the street you won it at the bookies.
This is low level money laundering but Kev or whatever his name is now has a legit reason for having a few hundred quid on him if pulled by the police.

 

[Dubai Blue]

On the crack machines put say £500 of your heroin dealing money in. Have a couple of £5.00 spins then cash out. The receipt will say winnings £490 or more if you won on your couple of spins. Happy days your money is no longer from selling deals on the street you won it at the bookies.
This is low level money laundering but Kev or whatever his name is now has a legit reason for having a few hundred quid on him if pulled by the police.

The article posted above says that some firms will even transfer the money directly into your bank account.

Where's that 50k in your bank account come from? Won it at the bookies, didn't I!

Then there are favoured bookies. Ladbrokes, says James, is useful because you can transfer winnings in the shop to an online gaming account. In William Hill's you can ask for your winnings to be credited directly to your debit card, with the cash landing up in your bank the same day. "Look at my account and I am a very successful punter," he says.

 

[m7mcfc]

The article posted above says that some firms will even transfer the money directly into your bank account.

Where's that 50k in your bank account come from? Won it at the bookies, didn't I!

It's not as easy as that the police can look at your account and see the money you have deposited, won, lost and withdrawn. You cannot put 10k in your betfred account and then withdraw it the same day as clean money. They would be all over you. Where as the slots inside the bookies were not regulated.