Here at Gambling Review, we recognize that most gamblers are fine, upstanding citizens who are wise with their money and simply want to have a good time at the casino. We would be remiss, though, if we didn’t mention the handful of idiots out there who probably shouldn’t ever set foot in a casino or log onto an online casino.

That handful of idiots includes people caught cheating at blackjack, people who embezzle money from their employer to fund their gambling habit, people who rob casino dealers and more. In this case, it’s a woman who decided that playing some casino games was more important than the safety of her children.

Though the ballots for Mother of the Year have not yet been tabulated, it’s a safe bet that Sharon Balek won’t be the winner. The 35-year-old mother of two left her children – ages eight and fifteen – in the car for almost six hours while she was busy gambling at Parx Casino.

Balek was too busy playing her favorite slots in the Bensalem, Pennsylvania casino to worry about a little thing like her children. Balek drove her children to the casino at approximately 6:30 PM and left them in the car to go play some slots. Leaving her kids in the parking lot wasn’t a big deal because it was for a short time – only six hours. At around 12:30 AM, the teenage child flagged down a passerby and borrowed a cell phone to call their father. It was a short time after that that Sharon Balek found herself in police custody. Her excuse for child abandonment? She “lost track of time.”

This should go without saying, but Mrs. Balek has a problem. I don’t know if she has a gambling addiction or anything like that, but she definitely suffers from one affliction: stupidity. If I felt the urge to go play the slots at the local casino and needed a place to put my kids for six hours or more, the casino parking lot would be pretty low on that list. At home with a babysitter, with their other parent with relatives or at a friend’s house would be options I look at first.

So here is my advice to you. If you have such a strong urge to play casino games that you can’t find somewhere safe for your children to be first, then do everyone a favor and go see a judge and tell him that. The judge will be happy to remove the children from your custody and then you can gamble any time you want without worrying about them.

Needless to say, Sharon Belek was arrested for child endangerment.

I’m one of those people who thinks that you can never have too much of a good thing. If a little bit is good, then a lot is even better. It’s why I won’t do heroin. I would end up increasing the dosage until I became a complete junkie and then overdose and am found in a dumpster like Layne Staley. I also love to multitask. I’m one of those people that bought DirecTV so I could watch all 65 NCAA tournament teams playing at once in tiny, tiny boxes on the screen. It’s great because it gives me more and more and allows me to multitask in my basketball-watching activities. Well, Roxy Palace finally has come out with games catered to people like me.

Roxy Palace is now offering a cool new feature brought to us by the boys at Microgaming. The online casino is now offering multi-tab gaming, which allows members to play up to five games at once. This means five times the fun, or I guess if you lose, five times the pain and disappointment. Players can do this with any game. Multi-tab gaming works best with simpler games that don’t require strategy, such as keno, bingo or the slots. I would advise against playing 5 poker games at the same time. That’s a pretty good way to lose money five times as fast. Plus, you’ll annoy the people who are waiting on you to make a decision because you’re playing one of the four other games.

The multi-tab gaming works basically the same as multi-tab web browsing that you would find on Firefox, Internet Explorer or whatever else people use for surfing the web nowadays. You can have five tabs open at a time and each tab would have a different game. You click on the tab that you want to play and that game is brought to the forefront of your screen. As a warning, though, playing more games at a time means that you are wagering and risking more money at a time, so while it can be fun and it can lead to more winnings, it can also increase your losses.

To get your multi-tab gaming on, visit Roxy Palace online casino today. Or I guess you can do it tomorrow, but why put off until tomorrow what you can do today?