Shonica Guy
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*Shanica Guy
*Shonica Gooden
In this episode Ash chats to Julia Karpathakis and Shonica Guy about Pokie addiction. PODCAST: Shonica Guy – Taking on the pokies Shonica Guy was introduced to poker machines at the age of 17 when her boyfriend asked her if she wanted to play. Before long, she was the one insisting they go to the pokies where they would easily pour all the money they had into the machines after they had paid the bills. Since last year, Crown and pokies manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure have been fighting the lawsuit launched by Shonica Guy, 41, who argued that design features of the ’Dolphin Treasure’ poker machine were misleading to gamblers and fuelled addictive behaviour.
The perfect poker machine—it never loses, you do
Morning Mail will soon offer shares in the latest poker machine (they call them “gambling machines” now) that never loses which means you never win. Purchases are limited six machines per MM customer. Start your own lucrative business. Ideal foe family reunions, at garage sales, political demonstrations and in hospital parking lots. Venues are only limited by your imagination.
Gambler Shonica Guy, has taken legal action. Her lawyer Jacob Varghese said academics purchased a Dolphin Treasure machine, then took it apart and analysed it. They discovered its fifth spinning wheel was much larger than the other ones, thereby reducing the chance of winning. They also found the machine was designed to deceive players by having multiple winning symbols on most wheels and only one winning symbol on one of them.
Source: ABCGambler ‘ripped off’ by deceptive gambling machine, court told
Crown Casino will vigorously defend a lawsuit which claimed the Melbourne venue engaged in deceptive and misleading conduct by designing a poker machine which deliberately tricks gamblers to play and lose.
The statement of claim lodged with the Federal Court stated the machine called the Dolphin Treasure, built by Aristocrat Leisure and operated by Crown Casino, was designed contrary to consumer law.
Shonica Guy has taken the legal action against Crown and Aristocrat Leisure after being addicted to poker machines for more than a decade.
“I’ve been ripped off. They stole 14 years of my life,” she said.
Ms Guy said during that time the Dolphin Treasure was her favourite machine to play.
“You put more money in because you think the win’s just around the corner,” she said.
“You think free games are coming up or I’ll get my money back and it never happens.”
One wheel inside poker machine is larger than others
Her lawyer Jacob Varghese said academics purchased a Dolphin Treasure machine, then took it apart and analysed it.
They discovered its fifth spinning wheel was much larger than the other ones, thereby reducing the chance of winning.
They also found the machine was designed to deceive players by having multiple winning symbols on most wheels and only one winning symbol on one of them.
“It’s one thing for a machine to be designed for entertainment purposes,” Mr Varghese said.
“It’s another thing for machines to be designed with tricks that players are not aware of, which encourage them to keep pressing that button and keep losing money.”
Despite losing tens of thousands of dollars on poker machines, Shonica Guy is not claiming compensation or damages.
“She is seeking a restraint that these kind of tricks are taken out of poker machines,” said Mr Varghese.
He said there will be industry-wide ramifications if the lawsuit is successful.
“There is a federal law that protects consumers, and establishing that they are bound by that law, and that they can’t conduct their activities with deceptive and misleading conduct, will have ramifications across the industry,” Mr Varghese said.
Crown said it would vigorously defend any claim.Shanica Guy
Aristocrat Leisure has been contacted for comment.
© AAP Image/Joe Castro Shonica Guy and Maurice Blackburn’s Jennifer Kanis (right) launched the case in September.A former gambling addict who argued a popular poker machine was deceptive and misleading has lost her landmark court case against Melbourne’s Crown Casino and the game manufacturer.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn brought the case on behalf of Shonica Guy, whose gambling addiction lasted 14 years.
It argued the Dolphin Treasure machine, which is manufactured by Aristocrat and available to players at Crown, had been deceptively designed to give players the impression they had won, when they had in fact lost money.
But the Federal Court has ruled the machine complied with regulations.
Lawyers for Ms Guy claimed the machine uses light, sound and images to fool gamblers, and has an oversized fifth reel, which misrepresents the true chances of winning.
Both Crown and Aristocrat denied they had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct.
Lawyers for Aristocrat told the trial their machines had been scrutinised by regulatory bodies and complied with strict standards.
Peter Jopling QC told the court Aristocrat was operating in an ’intensely regulated’ industry.
’We say that we’ve followed the standards to a tee and nobody has said that we haven’t,’ Mr Jopling said.
’They haven’t withdrawn our licence for the machines.’
There are 38 Dolphin Treasure games among the 1,080 Aristocrat brand poker machines on the floor of the Crown Casino.
Lawyers for the casino argued the machines were tested and approved by the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation.
They said Crown was doing nothing more than making authorised machines available.
Victorians lose billions to pokiesShonica Gooden
Every year Victorians lose more than $2.6 billion on the state’s 27,000 poker machines that operate outside of Crown Casino.
Data for Crown’s pokies is not published by the state regulator.
The State Government receives more than $1 billion in tax revenue from pokies every year.
Crown is also under investigation from the state’s gambling regulator following allegations from whistle-blowers that staff at the casino tampered and manipulated poker machines to boost profits.
Need help or support?
* Call Lifeline on 13 11 14
* Gambling Help Online
* Gamblers Anonymous
* Relationships Australia
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*Shanica Guy
*Shonica Gooden
In this episode Ash chats to Julia Karpathakis and Shonica Guy about Pokie addiction. PODCAST: Shonica Guy – Taking on the pokies Shonica Guy was introduced to poker machines at the age of 17 when her boyfriend asked her if she wanted to play. Before long, she was the one insisting they go to the pokies where they would easily pour all the money they had into the machines after they had paid the bills. Since last year, Crown and pokies manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure have been fighting the lawsuit launched by Shonica Guy, 41, who argued that design features of the ’Dolphin Treasure’ poker machine were misleading to gamblers and fuelled addictive behaviour.
The perfect poker machine—it never loses, you do
Morning Mail will soon offer shares in the latest poker machine (they call them “gambling machines” now) that never loses which means you never win. Purchases are limited six machines per MM customer. Start your own lucrative business. Ideal foe family reunions, at garage sales, political demonstrations and in hospital parking lots. Venues are only limited by your imagination.
Gambler Shonica Guy, has taken legal action. Her lawyer Jacob Varghese said academics purchased a Dolphin Treasure machine, then took it apart and analysed it. They discovered its fifth spinning wheel was much larger than the other ones, thereby reducing the chance of winning. They also found the machine was designed to deceive players by having multiple winning symbols on most wheels and only one winning symbol on one of them.
Source: ABCGambler ‘ripped off’ by deceptive gambling machine, court told
Crown Casino will vigorously defend a lawsuit which claimed the Melbourne venue engaged in deceptive and misleading conduct by designing a poker machine which deliberately tricks gamblers to play and lose.
The statement of claim lodged with the Federal Court stated the machine called the Dolphin Treasure, built by Aristocrat Leisure and operated by Crown Casino, was designed contrary to consumer law.
Shonica Guy has taken the legal action against Crown and Aristocrat Leisure after being addicted to poker machines for more than a decade.
“I’ve been ripped off. They stole 14 years of my life,” she said.
Ms Guy said during that time the Dolphin Treasure was her favourite machine to play.
“You put more money in because you think the win’s just around the corner,” she said.
“You think free games are coming up or I’ll get my money back and it never happens.”
One wheel inside poker machine is larger than others
Her lawyer Jacob Varghese said academics purchased a Dolphin Treasure machine, then took it apart and analysed it.
They discovered its fifth spinning wheel was much larger than the other ones, thereby reducing the chance of winning.
They also found the machine was designed to deceive players by having multiple winning symbols on most wheels and only one winning symbol on one of them.
“It’s one thing for a machine to be designed for entertainment purposes,” Mr Varghese said.
“It’s another thing for machines to be designed with tricks that players are not aware of, which encourage them to keep pressing that button and keep losing money.”
Despite losing tens of thousands of dollars on poker machines, Shonica Guy is not claiming compensation or damages.
“She is seeking a restraint that these kind of tricks are taken out of poker machines,” said Mr Varghese.
He said there will be industry-wide ramifications if the lawsuit is successful.
“There is a federal law that protects consumers, and establishing that they are bound by that law, and that they can’t conduct their activities with deceptive and misleading conduct, will have ramifications across the industry,” Mr Varghese said.
Crown said it would vigorously defend any claim.Shanica Guy
Aristocrat Leisure has been contacted for comment.
© AAP Image/Joe Castro Shonica Guy and Maurice Blackburn’s Jennifer Kanis (right) launched the case in September.A former gambling addict who argued a popular poker machine was deceptive and misleading has lost her landmark court case against Melbourne’s Crown Casino and the game manufacturer.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn brought the case on behalf of Shonica Guy, whose gambling addiction lasted 14 years.
It argued the Dolphin Treasure machine, which is manufactured by Aristocrat and available to players at Crown, had been deceptively designed to give players the impression they had won, when they had in fact lost money.
But the Federal Court has ruled the machine complied with regulations.
Lawyers for Ms Guy claimed the machine uses light, sound and images to fool gamblers, and has an oversized fifth reel, which misrepresents the true chances of winning.
Both Crown and Aristocrat denied they had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct.
Lawyers for Aristocrat told the trial their machines had been scrutinised by regulatory bodies and complied with strict standards.
Peter Jopling QC told the court Aristocrat was operating in an ’intensely regulated’ industry.
’We say that we’ve followed the standards to a tee and nobody has said that we haven’t,’ Mr Jopling said.
’They haven’t withdrawn our licence for the machines.’
There are 38 Dolphin Treasure games among the 1,080 Aristocrat brand poker machines on the floor of the Crown Casino.
Lawyers for the casino argued the machines were tested and approved by the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation.
They said Crown was doing nothing more than making authorised machines available.
Victorians lose billions to pokiesShonica Gooden
Every year Victorians lose more than $2.6 billion on the state’s 27,000 poker machines that operate outside of Crown Casino.
Data for Crown’s pokies is not published by the state regulator.
The State Government receives more than $1 billion in tax revenue from pokies every year.
Crown is also under investigation from the state’s gambling regulator following allegations from whistle-blowers that staff at the casino tampered and manipulated poker machines to boost profits.
Need help or support?
* Call Lifeline on 13 11 14
* Gambling Help Online
* Gamblers Anonymous
* Relationships Australia
Register here: http://gg.gg/ooyvv
https://diarynote.indered.space
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