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On this Floating Casino, Grandma Gambles Her Life Away

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“I will leave when I win $500. I’m still $300 short,” Mr Lim tells me as he puts down a $50 chip on the banker to win this round of baccarat.

The cards are dealt, and unfortunately for the player in his 60s, the value of the player’s cards is higher than the banker’s. The $50 chip is swiftly swept into the dealer’s chip tray.

“So now you are $350 short,” I tell Mr Lim, having observed the game standing behind him.

He shrugs.

“It’s like that. That’s why you have to keep playing then you can win.” In the next 15 minutes, he recoups $25.

I leave the table shortly after without knowing if Mr Lim would go on to meet his personal targets for the day. I wonder if he will stay overnight if the bad streak continues.

We are at the casino onboard the Aegean Paradise, a cruise ship that is stationed in international waters off Batam. It is obvious that I stand out among the passengers.

The casino deck is a sea of grey and silver, with about two-thirds of the people here aged 55 and above, including a number of married couples.

Elderly women are typically dressed in blouses with floral prints and carry small sling bags which presumably contain their cash; the men in polo T-shirts, trousers and sandals.

I count only two other gamblers who look my age.

In the embarkation queue, an old man asks if I’m new on the ship as he hasn’t seen me before.

The floating casino, with over 50 tables offering games such as baccarat, blackjack, roulette and sic-bo, is a popular destination for many Singaporean retirees and elderly.

Because of the off-putting $100 entrance levy fee at the casinos at the two integrated resorts (IRs), many are driven to gamble here instead. Paying the fee is already incurring a loss before even stepping foot inside.

A round-trip by ferry to the ship, with meals and drinks provided for, costs $45. Senior citizens even enjoy special concession rates of just $25 on the evening ferry.

Clearly the appeal of Aegean Paradise is geared towards elderly gamblers like Mr Lim looking for a day’s fun and hoping to strike riches.

Most are regulars who have been frequenting the ship’s predecessor, MV Leisure World, which had operated off Singapore since 2000 and was the only one of three casino ships to remain afloat after the opening of the IRs.

Yet many of these gamblers do not think they are addicts.

Most whom I spoke to made the one-hour ferry trip because they want to escape their monotonous lives on the mainland but do not want to take a long coach ride to Genting or Kuala Lumpur.

Gambling here is simply part of the short getaway – if they manage to win some money, then all the better.

They also shrug off my concerns about throwing their savings away in a day.

“Our lives are so short. We also cannot spend all the money if we keep it at home, might as well come here and try our luck and have some fun,” says Madam Chen, a 68-year-old retiree.

According to a 2014 survey done by the National Council on Problem Gambling, the percentage of probable pathological gamblers aged 50 and above had fallen from two per cent in 2011 to 0.5 per cent that year.

Despite the perceived decrease in elderly problem gamblers, the risk is still high in an ageing population. Furthermore, this group of gamblers isless likely to seek help for their addiction because of a lack of awareness of assistance available, or they might be ashamed to do so, says Mythily Subramaniam of the Institute of Mental Health.

The casino is already packed and bustling with activity when I arrive at five minutes past 11 in the morning. The baccarat and roulette tables are mostly crowded with old folks – perhaps because betting is simple and straightforward, unlike the more complicated games of chance such as poker and blackjack.

A minimum bet at the roulette table is $2, which easily draws in the punters.

Chips of different colours and varying stacks are placed on the number board in a flurry, either on a single number or between numbers. Once in a while, players look at the display of previous winning numbers and pause – as though there were a pattern to be discerned – before making another bet.

It is a scene that resembles the start of a game of Risk, when players place their troops all over the game board. In this case, while these gamblers think they are positioning their chips strategically, in reality it is all an elaborate display of hopefulness.

The odds, no matter how hard they try, are never in their favour.

I ask an old lady beside me why she had bet on no less than 15 numbers and combinations.

“Of course must bet a lot lah! How to win big if you only bet on one number or colour?” she replies nonchalantly, as though I had asked a stupid question.

“No more bets!” the croupier calls after spinning the ball in the wheel. There is a momentary silence, as the gamblers pray that the winning number will be theirs.

After multiple bounces, the ball rests on 35, black. There are a few groans and cusses as the croupier sweeps away all the lost bets. I hazard an estimate of almost $500 wiped out in an instant.

The old lady cheers and turns to me, “See?” She was one of two players who won that round, never mind that she had lost her other 14 bets, some of them considerably larger than this winning one.

All that mattered was that she had won some chips from the croupier.

Over at the jackpot room, the atmosphere is much more subdued.

Old folks sit with their eyes glued to the vibrant displays with four fingers robotically tapping on the spin button, like part of a production line in a dystopian world.

They pay no heed to their dwindling cash deposits. The credits may run out, but luck doesn’t, and they instinctively insert another $50 note into the machine when they hit the limit.

No one speaks, and the only sound here is the music from the 50-odd machines that lulls players into a dreamlike sense of hope. Periodically, a public service announcement trumpets the success of a passenger who just won $32,000 from the jackpot machine, encouraging others to keep trying their luck.

Most passengers take the last ferry out at 8.30pm in order to maximise their time at the casino. The last group of passengers arrive at 10pm.

Surprisingly, however, not all of them are here to gamble.

“I’m just here to accompany my friends,” says Mr Ng, a part-time taxi driver in his 60s.

When I ask him why he is not at the gaming tables, he says he quit gambling after a scarring experience when he lost $10,000 in Genting many years ago.

“Gambling is bad,” he reiterates and shows me his HomeTeamNS Passion Card. “Sometimes I go to the HomeTeamNS club at Balestier and I see people my age and older spending the day in front of the jackpot machine. It’s very sad, and some more with the card they get free entry.”

What brings him to a gambling ship then?

Surprise, surprise, he has nothing to do at home and just wants to relax, though he doesn’t explain why he has chosen such a late time to come.

It is also an odd choice of place to unwind, considering that there’s not much else to do on this ship, save for a karaoke room. Maybe he just loves the sea and the smell of cigarette smoke.

At 1am, I find myself watching a game of pontoon, a variation of blackjack.

A woman who looks to be in her 60s is bleeding chips, but she is not giving up.

Her betting pattern remains consistently one-dimensional: a $20 bet on her cards and an additional $5 on getting a pair which would pay 10 to one. I’m confused by how she thinks she can even recoup her losses at this rate.

Her chips continue to be swiped away by the dealer, and I’m almost certain she would be forced to leave the table.

She rubs her tired eyes, and struggles to put her chips properly on the betting table. At times, she even reads the number on her cards wrongly.

As luck would have it, she is dealt a king pair and thus, another lifeline. She keeps going, but only barely. Within an hour, she loses another $200, and still there is no variation to her play.

Each time she exceeds 21, she points at the guilty card and curses, as though its existence were a crime.

I soon realise that she’s simply betting on the probability of striking a bountiful winning streak, not the odds of beating the dealer, and it’s painful to watch her cling on to false hope.

A waiter comes to her side and clears her ash tray. She passes him a $20 chip, one of her last few, which he graciously accepts. A little deed of generosity to be repaid with good fortune, perhaps?

Unfortunately, there is no such promise.

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At 6.15am, I board the first shuttle ferry back to the island and am joined by the old lady from the pontoon table, who now looks dishevelled in clothes that are at least two-days-old. She drops into a row of seats and immediately dozes off.

There are plenty of gamblers still aboard the Aegean Paradise as we depart for Singapore. Home may be a dull and lonely place to these elderly, but on the third deck of the cruise liner, it is a decaying paradise that promises fortunes.

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History
Name:	1990–2005: Orient Venus 2005–2007: Cruise One 2007–2010: Delphin Voyager 2011: Hainan Empress 2011–2012: Happy Dolphin 2012 onwards: Aegean Paradise
Owner:	1990–2005: Shin Nihonkai Ferry Co. Ltd. 2005–2011: First Cruise One Corp. 2011-July 2015: Hainan Cruises Enterprises Ltd. July 2015 onwards: New Century Maritime
Operator:	1990–2005: Japan Cruise Line 2005–2007: First Cruise Line 2007–2011: Delphin Kreuzfahrten 2011–2011: Hainan Cruise Line 2011–2011: Quail Travel Group 2012-2015: Etstur July 2015 onwards: New Century Cruise Line
Builder:	Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Tokyo, Japan
Yard number:	2987
Launched:	26 January 1990^[1]
Completed:	1990
Acquired:	8 July 1990^[1]
Identification:	Call sign: C6UU6 IMO number: 8902333 MMSI number: 309877000
Status:	In service
General characteristics
Type:	Cruise ship
Tonnage:	23,287 GT^[2]
Length:	174 m (570 ft 10 in)^[2]
Beam:	24 m (78 ft 9 in)^[2]
Draught:	6.52 m (21 ft 5 in)^[2]
Decks:	8
Installed power:	2 x 12 cyl.four stroke single acting Pielstick diesel engines type 12PC2-6V^[2]
Propulsion:	2 x Controllable pitch propellers^[2]
Speed:	22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)^[2]
Capacity:	650 passengers in 324 cabins

Aegean Paradise is a cruise ship operated by Singapore tour operator Universal Shipmanagement pte ltd . She was built in 1990 in Japan as three-stars-plus ship^[3] for Japan Cruise Line as Orient Venus which was used mainly on Japanese market.

The ship was sold to First Cruise Line and renamed Cruise One^[4] in September 2005.^[1] The ship was rebuilt from October 2015 until April 2017 at the Hellenic Shipyards of Perama in Greece, to a four-star ship. In April 2007, the ship was chartered to Delphin Kreuzfahrten and renamed Delphin Voyager.^[4] During the renovation in Greece, she was significantly modified from original.^[4]

Delphin Voyager in Trondheim in May 2010

Due to the insolvency of Delphin Kreuzfahrten in October 2010, ship was not returned. The owner of the ship, took First Cruise One Corp., the daughter of Greek company Restis Group, the ship returned to Greece, where it was at Perama on roadstead, before it was chartered for next few months in China in 2011. From January 2011 ship was chartered by Chinese investor group Hainan Cruises Enterprises under name Hainan Empress which was ended in May 2011. The ship was chartered to Quail/Happy Cruises under name Happy Dolphin. Since the bankruptcy of Quail in 2011, Happy Dolphin has been laid up in Piraeus. She has been chartered for the 2012 summer season to a Turkish tour operator Etstur and was renamed to Aegean Paradise. She cruised from İzmir and was cruised 2, 3 and 4 nights to the Greek Islands for the first time. At the end of August she will be deployed to Istanbul where she will do 3, 5, 6 and 7-night cruises to the Greek Islands and to the Black Sea. The season will end at 28 September when the ship arrives to Istanbul.

On 24 July 2015, the ship was sold to Kingston Maritime, a wholly owned subsidiary of New Century Maritime, for US$22.89 million.Aegean Paradise was delivered to Kingston Maritime at ST Marine Shipyard in Singapore. After refurnishing at the shipyard, the ship will join 2 other casino ships owned by the same company. She will be operating as a casino cruise ship off the Indonesian island of Batam.New Century Maritime is indirectly owned by New Century Group of Hong Kong.She was wrongly reported to have been sold on 5 December 2015 to Diamond Cruise by China Cruise and Yacht Industry News. She is in fact been refurnished in a Singapore shipyard and is scheduled to commence operation as a casino cruise ship off the indonesian island of Batam on 8 January 2016.Due to engine problems, her launch on 8 January 2016 was delayed. She finally started operation on 12 Jan and is now anchored between Batam and Johore as a casino cruise ship catering mainly to Singapore punters.