Black History

Are you tired of fighting a gambling addiction?  Do you wish your gambling problem would just go away?  You have probably heard that once you are addicted to anything, the addiction lasts a lifetime.  That is true to the best of my knowledge.  Though it is true that the gambling problem you have now will never go away, it is possible to not think about gambling all the time.  Thinking about the gambling problem, or gambling is the part of a gambling addiction that wears many people down.  In plain English, they just get tired of talking about it, thinking about it, and dealing with the gambling problem they have.


While the compulsive gambling disease is incurable, it is possible to go through days or even weeks without thinking about it or being fixated on the problem.  That is what you really want, isn't it?  You want to just live your life, have fun, laugh, enjoy life, without battling a problem 24/7. You want relief.  The good news is that is possible.  The disease may not go away, but the symptoms can be treated.

I know gamblers who have a normal life and enjoy life.  I have also known them long enough so I remember when they first stopped gambling and started working at being a non-gambler.  Many of them complained at the time that it seemed the joy had gone out of life, that life wasn't any fun anymore.  After time passed I reminded some of them of that and we had a good laugh.  How dark things seemed when they first admitted they had a gambling problem and started to take their first small, hesitating steps towards being clean, a non-gambler.

The first thing you have to understand about your wonderful mind is that it has parts.  There is the conscious part of your mind and the subconscious part.  The conscious part of your mind may want to be happy and just relax and enjoy life, but your subconscious may be preoccupied with a desire to gamble.  As long as your subconscious is fixated on gambling, there will be no relief, but the nice thing about the human mind is that it can only truly hold one thought at a time.  In other words, if your subconscious becomes filled or fixated with another thought, the gambling desire and all the nervousness and anxiety that goes with it, will disappear.


There are meditation and relaxation techniques that are very easy to learn and that you can use to clear your mind.  These powerful techniques have worked for many people, just ordinary people who happened to have a gambling problem, just like you.  If you have a gambling problem and you are sick of it, I recommend you keep treating it with a 12 step program or the therapy you are now using, but also add an Mp3 that is specially programmed to relax your mind and put those positive thoughts into your subconscious that will replace the gambling problem and give you the relief you seek.  

You won't be cured and you will still need your therapy or support group, but you will eventually find whole days and even weeks going by without that terrible battle and yes, you will find some of the joy coming back into your life.

Ultimate Teen Patti by Play Games 24*7 has emerged as the top grossing Teen Patti app on the Google Play store surpassing a number of top-rated mobile games. The game has fetched high revenues which indicate its strong preference in an array of online card games. It has garnered a huge positive response which is well evident from Ultimate teen patti's online reviews. The feedback section on Google Playstore is flooded with positive reviews and some innocent complaints for the game being addictive. Just like Pankaj Joshi said, "Awesome teen patti game I've ever played on Indian poker portal and there is even no need to buy chips, thank you so much for this addicted game."


The game Ultimate Teen Patti gets updated as per the latest trends in the digital gaming world. It is offered in a highly personalized format on the app and has a number of state-of-the-art features like low battery consumption, smooth gameplay even with 2G connection, availability in more than one language, high quality interface, the latest security features and amazing graphics which ensure an unparalleled virtual gaming experience and have made this game immensely popular among card game lovers. These characteristics have also been highlighted on Ultimate Teen Patti reviews at Google Playstore by thousands of people. They are the major reason for the card game lovers to download it to such an extent that it not only witnessed 30X downloads than any other mobile gaming app but also gave competition to other leading gaming apps. In India, Ultimate Teen Patti has seen maximum traction across North and West India, mainly in the areas of Karnataka and Kerala, signaling a growing interest of mobile gamers in Indian card-games.


"Every single team member at Ultimate Games has just one thing on their mind - how do I provide the best playing experience to my players? We carefully sieve through layers of data to understand our players' needs and improve their gaming experience. We experiment boldly and are always adding new features to our game," said Avin Sharma, Product Head, Ultimate Teen Patti.
Upbeat on making a mark in the mobile gaming industry in a short span of time, Mr. Trivikraman Thampy CEO, Ultimate Games says, "We have tremendous insight into the needs and interests of the Indian card gamers due to the continued and successful run of our flagship brand RummyCircle, India's largest grossing mobile and web platform since 2008."

In 1947, Opium was sent "across" in small "cans" holding six ounces, these would be sold for $250.00 each. On July 5th it was announced that the Mexico crop of opium exceeded a record 32 tons or more near the U.S.Border. Although Mexican pilots flew south, few ventured north because of the risk transporting drugs by air even though the Custom and Naroctics Bureaus of the Treasury Department had no planes of their own in 1947. Starting scheduled flights into the U.S. would enable large profits to be made by those will to take the risks.


Money generated by the sale of drugs required laundering, and gambling was one way to do that. In November 1946, gangster Paul Roland Jones approached Sheriff Steve Guthrie of Dallas and promised him a starting salary of $150,000 a year if he allowed his friends from Chicago to bring slot machines and floating crap games into Dallas. Jones said that his boss Jack Ruby was in charge of this operation and that he was due to arrive in the spring of 1947. Guthrie said he would think it over and agreed to another meeting. However, Guthrie was an honest man and turned to the Texas Rangers for help.

Led by W. E. "Dub" Naylor, the Rangers made a secret tape recording of the second meeting between Jones and Guthrie. It took a month to gather enough evidence to arrest or drive out these gangsters. Among those arrested was Jack's sister, Eva Ruby, the owner of a restaurant in Dallas and a partner in sending opium to Chicago. Victory over these mobsters was short-lived, for Jack Ruby arrived the following year and started various gambling enterprises around the city.

During this same period Jack Ruby was involved in counterintelligence. Officially, he was an aircraft mechanic in the Army Air Corps from May 1943 until February 1946 at various bases in the South. His brother Sam was also in the Air Corps as an informer, keeping an eye on communists and nazis and writing letters to his brother Jack about his observations. Although Sam wrote the letters as if they were to his brother, he actually addressed the envelopes to a counterintelligence officer.

On three separate occasions in about summer 1943, early 1944, and early 1947, Ruby went to a union hall in Muncie, Indiana to participate in meetings with communists. The union hall was on the third story of a three-story building, where gambling often happened during evenings and weekends. Ruby met with Russian Jews, some of whom were communists.

In 1947 Joe Campisi and his brother Sam Campisi bought the Idle Hour Bar in Dallas. This was the year the Campisis first met Ruby.

Additionally, Ruby was an informer for the FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics). After the shooting of Oswald, Mort Benjamin, an FBN agent in New York, found a file showing that Ruby had been an informer since the 1940s. When Benjamin returned to read the file again, it was missing. Apparently, someone had taken every document related to the FBN's relationship with Ruby and destroyed it.

Ruby's work as an informer is comparable to that of an employee at the TSBD (Texas School Book Depository). Joe Molina, credit manager for the TSBD since February 1947, knew Bill Lowery, an undercover agent for the FBI. In 1955 Molina and Lowery became interested in a leftist group called the American GI Forum, an organization that had the goal of fighting injustices perpetrated against people of Mexican descent. Molina and Lowery were among six individuals who formed the Dallas chapter of the GI Forum. The following year Lowery nominated Molina as chairman.


In testimony given at a hearing of the Subversive Activities Control Board in 1963, Lowery admitted he was an FBI informant infiltrating the GI Forum. By implication his friend Molina was an informant too. The Dallas police became interested in Molina after the assassination and investigated him as a suspect. They publicized his connections to alleged communists, and as a result Molina lost his job at the TSBD. If Molina was an undercover agent, then he was one of four such operatives in one location. The other three were Shelley, Bergin, and Oswald.

In 1947, Opium was sent "across" in small "cans" holding six ounces, these would be sold for $250.00 each. On July 5th it was announced that the Mexico crop of opium exceeded a record 32 tons or more near the U.S.Border. Although Mexican pilots flew south, few ventured north because of the risk transporting drugs by air even though the Custom and Naroctics Bureaus of the Treasury Department had no planes of their own in 1947. Starting scheduled flights into the U.S. would enable large profits to be made by those will to take the risks.


Money generated by the sale of drugs required laundering, and gambling was one way to do that. In November 1946, gangster Paul Roland Jones approached Sheriff Steve Guthrie of Dallas and promised him a starting salary of $150,000 a year if he allowed his friends from Chicago to bring slot machines and floating crap games into Dallas. Jones said that his boss Jack Ruby was in charge of this operation and that he was due to arrive in the spring of 1947. Guthrie said he would think it over and agreed to another meeting. However, Guthrie was an honest man and turned to the Texas Rangers for help.

Led by W. E. "Dub" Naylor, the Rangers made a secret tape recording of the second meeting between Jones and Guthrie. It took a month to gather enough evidence to arrest or drive out these gangsters. Among those arrested was Jack's sister, Eva Ruby, the owner of a restaurant in Dallas and a partner in sending opium to Chicago. Victory over these mobsters was short-lived, for Jack Ruby arrived the following year and started various gambling enterprises around the city.

During this same period Jack Ruby was involved in counterintelligence. Officially, he was an aircraft mechanic in the Army Air Corps from May 1943 until February 1946 at various bases in the South. His brother Sam was also in the Air Corps as an informer, keeping an eye on communists and nazis and writing letters to his brother Jack about his observations. Although Sam wrote the letters as if they were to his brother, he actually addressed the envelopes to a counterintelligence officer.

On three separate occasions in about summer 1943, early 1944, and early 1947, Ruby went to a union hall in Muncie, Indiana to participate in meetings with communists. The union hall was on the third story of a three-story building, where gambling often happened during evenings and weekends. Ruby met with Russian Jews, some of whom were communists.

In 1947 Joe Campisi and his brother Sam Campisi bought the Idle Hour Bar in Dallas. This was the year the Campisis first met Ruby.

Additionally, Ruby was an informer for the FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics). After the shooting of Oswald, Mort Benjamin, an FBN agent in New York, found a file showing that Ruby had been an informer since the 1940s. When Benjamin returned to read the file again, it was missing. Apparently, someone had taken every document related to the FBN's relationship with Ruby and destroyed it.


Ruby's work as an informer is comparable to that of an employee at the TSBD (Texas School Book Depository). Joe Molina, credit manager for the TSBD since February 1947, knew Bill Lowery, an undercover agent for the FBI. In 1955 Molina and Lowery became interested in a leftist group called the American GI Forum, an organization that had the goal of fighting injustices perpetrated against people of Mexican descent. Molina and Lowery were among six individuals who formed the Dallas chapter of the GI Forum. The following year Lowery nominated Molina as chairman.

Winning a national lottery would be a dream come true for most people. Each year, billions of dollars are spent on scratch off tickets and lottery numbers by people hoping to strike it rich.

Americans reference the national lottery when talking about games such as Powerball and Mega Millions. Much of the money for ticket sales accumulates to payout staggering multi-million dollar jackpots offered throughout the country.


In addition to national games, many states offer region-specific games through their own lottery system. National games have substantially higher payouts than state games, but the odds are considerably higher with an average of 1 in 18 million. 

The largest lottery winnings ever recorded amounted to $380 million and was awarded in January 2011 through Mega Millions. The largest Powerball jackpot to be recorded was a staggering $340 million.

There's little doubt that kind of money could permanently alter a person's life. Winning millions of dollars would allow a person to do whatever they want, whenever they want and still have funds to pass along inherited wealth for several generations.

Certainly, most people would be overjoyed to win the lottery. However, as with most things in life there is a downside to receiving a windfall of cash.

One of the greatest challenges is coping with the unwanted notoriety. Many stories have circulated regarding lottery winners being bombarded with phone calls and uninvited guests arriving at their door. Winners can elect to keep their newfound wealth private by hiring a representative, like a financial adviser or attorney, to claim their lottery winnings.

Although it can be entertaining to dream about all the things lottery cash could be spent on, the truth of the matter is it's rather expensive to win jackpots. State and federal taxes can deplete over half of the winnings, so the best defense is immediately hiring an exceptional financial consultant. Professionals can help develop strategies to reduce taxes on lottery winnings.

Accepting jackpot funds as lump sum cash is more costly than accepting annual installments. Winning millions changes tax status and results in higher taxes. Financial planners can create investment plans to reduce tax burdens. This could be in the form of depositing money into an irrevocable life insurance trust or tax-sheltered retirement account such as a Roth IRA.

While the national lottery has multi-million dollar jackpots, state games also offer valuable prizes. All winnings acquired through gambling are subject to income tax and must be reported on tax returns. This includes prizes and cash won through casinos, horse or dog racing, raffles, contests, and sweepstakes.

Taxpayers can report gambling losses on tax returns as long as they provide adequate documentation. People who gamble on a regular basis should develop accounting methods and record keeping systems to track winnings and losses.


Lottery jackpot winners should consider working with an estate planning service to safeguard money for their family. Estate planners can develop strategies to reduce inheritance taxes and expand financial portfolios.

Regrettably, more than one person has spent their life savings in the quest to win the national lottery. Gambling can become a serious addiction that necessitates professional help to overcome. It is imperative to maintain control and never spend more money than you can afford to lose.