God of Gamblers "I am a dead man if they...

I interviewed the self-proclaimed God of Gamblers and he thinks that he will be one of those in the exclusion list.

“I am a dead man if they ban me,” he said, "Good thing there is an appeals committee."

“I will be a big winner soon and that is why I call myself THE GOD OF GAMBLERS. My family goes out whenever I am at home. They say that I am an irritant. Why do they think that I am an irritant? Why can’t they see that one day, any day now, my ship will come in? I will win so much, everyone will see that I am the God of Gamblers. I will definitely appeal if they exclude me,” he promised.

I pointed out to him, “The fact that you do not see casino gambling as entertainment expense instead of having your cake and eating it, is worrisome. Don’t you think that by appealing, it only goes to show that to ban you was a correct decision because you take gambling too seriously to even bother to appeal?”

He looked at me as if I am the biggest fool in the world and said, “What is the point of having cake if you cannot it eat? And of course gambling is serious business. Do you know how much money is involved? Do you not know that gambling is life and death?”

“There is no casino at the moment in Singapore and how is that different from being excluded when the casino opens?”

“When the casino opens, there will be a casino in Singapore. Before the casino opens, there are no casinos in Singapore. Don’t you see the difference?”

“You can still go to Genting Highlands, Star Cruise and Batam even after you are excluded?”

“I can and I will whenever I can come up with the money. The casino in Singapore on the other hand is just round the corner and I do not have to go through customs. Do you know how troublesome it is to go through customs and how troublesome it is to travel so far?”

“I am sorry, but I cannot agree with you that gambling at the casino is serious business….” He cut in before I could finish the question.

“It is a very serious matter and the National Council of Problem Gambling agrees with me.”

“Would you care to elaborate?”

“Why else would they recruit the crème de la crème of Singapore society to sit in the appeals committee and pay them to hear the cases? Is there a committee to hear the appeals of people chased away by the police for selling things at HDB void decks?”

I wanted to write that off as another one of his nonsense but checked my notes just in case and there it was indeed.

CATCH THEM BEFORE THEY FALL
DO you know someone who has a knack for identifying signs of problem gambling? This person could become part of a new panel that will decide on the fate of casino exclusion order applications. The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) is putting together a group of 25 to 30 people to hear appeals for exclusion orders. It wants a mix of professionals, such as counsellors and psychiatrists, and people of high social standing so that the decisions will be balanced.
— LEE U-WEN, Dec 30-31 Todayonline.com

I checked further and indeed there is no committee to hear the appeals of people chased away by the police for selling things at HDB void decks; much less an appeal committee consisting of the crème de la crème of Singapore society

This is meant as a humour piece, the God of Gamblers does not exist in person but certainly exist in spirit. I have met so many.