Here at the Golden Ages retirement Center, the huge project of houses and apartments built overlooking the river, the chief pastime of the residents has become online casino games. I am here on the lawn. All around me are groups of residents standing around laptop computers and all the laptops are logged into online gambling sites. One group is playing bingo. Very popular down here. Another is in an online casino playing blackjack. The two groups on the far side are both in online casinos playing roulette. But everyone is busy with online casino games.

The betting in these online casino games is not that heavy. Everyone seems to have passed the age of heavy online gambling but they all enjoy a ‘mild flutter’. The most popular online casinos offer all the online casino games, poker, blackjack, roulette, baccarat, bingo, craps, slot machines and a dozen varieties of poker. The online casinos are all very entertaining, offering great graphics and good sound and the residents really enjoy themselves playing. It had become the main entertainment – outside on the lawn in the mild summer months and inside in the dining room in the colder months. I am sure, although no one knows for sure, that some of the people out there are also winning huge amounts of money by gambling online!