Profile : The Bandit

2112jsm wrote:

Out of interest, Bandit, what was the fruit machine that you lost the £650 in?

It was an Empire Strikes Back – it was a repeat worker if you are that way inclined. In fact, once i had been made aware, i made £700 on it the next time i went to that holiday park lol

TheMagnetSpitter wrote:

Quazzi wrote:

This is exactly the response I was looking for! It also proves to everyone you’re no mug (anymore) when it comes to gambling and youve turned it into something lucrative for you!

Well played my man. Maybe as this thread grows you can share some little anecdotes with us also?

Thing is I don’t think you can copy what Bandits done, its been through his own experiences that have helped him to learn imo

Things happen for a reason and each of those losses made him look for answers. You can take what he offers on board but I don’t think you truly emulate what he’s done. I’ve always thought he might have been alone for a while which might have helped him? no friends or family etc so he used gambling as a way of keeping himself busy, but that sounds not right because he’s married with a kid in 2010, although could have been before that where he started to make breakthroughs.

 

Tbh in my life, i have never really had an “alone” period, i am quite a funny fucker in the flesh so friends usually stick around and we all have a laugh, there have been times when i have moved around so much that you don’t really get a proper circle of friends, job hopping, address changing every 6 months etc but even then, i still had my core group so always had people to knock about with.

They’d usually always know where to find me…. on the bandit haha

It’s possible that they choose an amount to pay rather than a x stake win i dunno, like it’s decided i’m paying out a grand, if you are on 50p then you are getting 2000x, if you are on £2 then it’s a 500x win – it is also completely possible that that is horse shit haha

Ok, i will try and give a brief, ha, i say brief, history of my gambling life. When i say i could write an awesome book – i mean it haha

At the age of 12 me and my mate used to go to the local pub as we were both pretty intelligent in school and they had a quiz night which you could win big money at and we fancied our chances. £1 to enter the jackpot round, 5 questions and you had to get them all right. Usually no one won and it was a rollover because the questions were silly hard.

Well one week, we got all 5 of them right but what is this sorcery, another team also managed the same so there had to be a tie breaker – a spoken tie breaker and first answer wins – “What is the capital of Somalia?” came the question and in stereo sound almost, we both answered “Mogadishu” ooOOOOoosh we won and pretty much there is where the gambling properly began. Prior to that i had played games in arcades on family holidays etc but nothing like that buzz haha

That very night i played the fruit machine in there, a £5 jackpot machine, i lost all the money in it and then every time the quiz was on, pretty much did the same thing, once or twice every 2 months i would maybe win a few quid but it was usually a “lose all my money” scenario lol

The years that followed saw me gamble on things that became available to me at certain ages, lottery and scratchcards at 16, the arcade over 18 area at 18 and then the casinos, i just used to spend all my money on gambling. I fucked up several jobs by stealing to fund my habit, i’d never pay my rent – i was moved out of my parental home at 16 to a bedsit, £38 a week it was and i even fucked that up because of the gambling.

Fast forward now to when my first son as born, still gambling but had made a lot of money from gambling in certain areas like matched betting, some trading, a twist on sports affiliation but again, had seen very big balances come and go down to simply a huge lack of discipline and an insatiable “must gamble all money” appetite but it was about to change, dramatically.

I went on holiday with the wife and the lad, 3 months old he is at this stage and it is 2010. I’m where i always am, in the arcade, in the over 18’s bit doing my bollocks in only this time, it was like robbery. I managed to put £650 in to a £70 jackpot machine without a jackpot and spent the rest of the holiday a bit miserable as we were down to the bare bones. When i got home, i decided to dig a bit to see if i could find out what had gone on there because that just isn’t right, was the machine broken? Anyway, my investigations led me to forums and led me to post asking about my experience, i was mocked quite a lot at first but then the private messages started to come, people offering to sell me the “method” for that specific machine, the price got lower and lower after having started at £1,500 until eventually, one lad offered it for free and emailed me it. The biggest light bulb moment of my life occurred right there – these machines can be learnt, their programs can be closely examined for holes, set ways of playing set machines can be discovered and bang i was away, looking at this that and everything and soon i was working out my own ways to play and i never looked back. I ended the first year of “knowledge” shall we call it having won £86k on pub fruit machines. I had fixed that area of my play, i no longer did all my money in, i payed smart and i took them to the cleaners and continue to do so to this very day. I lost £72,000 of that money i that first year in the bookies on roulette, i wrote every session down and read it after the 365th day and that cured me pretty much of that too.

I buy the fruit machines in to the house now to work on them and the way my brain is and the way i am means i absolutely pull the fucker apart and try this that and everything and i have worked out some very successful, very lucrative methods over the years that has enabled me to venture in to the trading of sporting events that i have mentioned from time to time where i can stake upwards of 6 figures if certain scenarios play out, in comparison to my trading, every slot stake i play is small. People often throw back to when i started and i was playing 40p and 60p and accuse me of having no money then and only being able to play big now because of affiliation – complete rubbish, back when i popped on the scene there were hardly any people playing, you had Nick on 60p, Kim on 10sek perhaps, it was just what was around at the time so that is where i pitched myself. It was going to take time to see whether a) people liked to watch what i did and b) the level at which they would like to see that – i’d gambled online before plenty but only on 2 games, Bruce Lee and Raging Rhino at various stakes but up to £9 odd a spin, the smaller stake at the beginning of the channel meant i could play all the other games and find out what was happening on them, whether they were any good etc and it hopefully wouldn’t cost the Earth.

Well, about 3 months in and a serious lack of wins, i was £24k down on my channel – a big expense that had started to take money away from other areas which i didn’t want to do, i was playing more because i was quite addicted to the positive comments from people, i loved that people loved the videos so i was doing loads of them but that hole had to be plugged, i had dabbled in affiliation before so knew there was the possibility so i joined Casumo affiliates and Bet Victor affiliates and it went from there with that. Once i started to earn a bit from them i turned to the giveaways and i dont care what anyone says, i genuinely started the giveaways to give something back to those that had chosen to support me, the thought ooOOoOoohh these giveaways will draw them all in hadn’t crossed my mind until some troll piped up with it so yeah, that was a bit annoying but no way was i going to let that take them away, people loved the fact i gave back and i give a fuck load back still to this day.

The evolution of the channel and the stakes is largely based on what happens across the scene, if people are raising their stakes, 60p becomes 80p, 80p becomes £1.20 and so on, you kind of have to go there or you’ll just get left behind and not watched anymore but for me, my stake raise came about because of a genuine hit – November 1st 2016, i raised to £1.80 stake for the first time on my channel – Game of Thrones i was playing and it rolled in a full screen of wilds bar 2 positions and both those position were Aces, it paid £3,726 and from that point, my stake never went below that again, the odd £1.50 if the options were £1.50 or £3 but that was the lowest then because when you hit on that stake, wow, you hit. My average stake isn’t really much above that £1.80 mark to this day, perhaps in the £2.50 area now.

There are loads of bits i have skipped or i would be here all day writing lol I have always gambled though, i am a gambler, it isn’t business to me. If affiliation was banned tomorrow, you would still see me, i’m not sure how many of the others would still be around though. I can think of a few.