SEXY GAMBLING? YOU BET!

05-01-2007

Edward Cameron onhow frittering away your fortune in online gambling can make you truly irresistible to the opoosite sex. Honest.

You love sex. She loves sex. You love money. She loves money. You have money. She loves you.

Well that would be nice, I thought to myself as I zipped up my fly.

This bold advertising statement was on posters above every urinal in the gents' loos of Wolverhampton's Hog's Head bar as I did Christmas last week.

The posters were advertising www.vcpoker.com, yet another of the multitude of online gambling sites.

Now I'm the first person to get irritated by the panicky types who object to advertising on the basis that the products might have a harmful effect on a small group of should-know-betters.

We're all entitled to choose what we buy, what we eat and what we want to do without some busy-body pontificating on our behalf.

However, if you look at adverts for Maccy Ds and Burger King they never actually suggest that a processed ‘beef' burger is good for you.

I found this poker advert a little bit worrying, even more than the bloke peeing next to me who was more than a little disturbed by my getting my camera phone out while he was exposed.

Drunk as a skunk and fed up with another boring night in town it's just the sort of advert that could suck in the easily led.

Gambling is a terrible affliction. It can be as damaging as alcohol both to the health and the family.

One of the times I went to Monmore Green dog track I caught site of the rather twee reminder in the programs: ‘Remember, you're buying entertainment, not making an investment'.

I do love money. I definitely love sex. But playing poker online is no surefire way of getting it.

And this has got to be treated as bad advertising. Far worse, in my humble opinion, than putting a cheap plastic toy in a box with a hamburger.