A neighbour in Nanaimo wouldn’t stop laughing one evening while staring at his phone outside our apartment building. Eventually he admitted he’d been playing on Casino Nanaimo, so later that night I tried it myself. What caught my attention was how smooth the transitions between games felt without endless pop-ups interrupting everything. I jumped between blackjack and roulette while watching TV. The beginning felt cursed because almost every bet missed by the smallest margin possible. I was seconds away from quitting when one feature round suddenly changed everything. The strange part is I only planned to test it briefly and somehow stayed there until nearly 1 a.m.