Video poker machines are a con

Look at them, video poker machines lined up at the entrance to any casino, or lurking in the corner of social clubs where the local gambling ordinances permit them. They are there to take all the money from suckers. Sore losers. . . They just can’t stop playing these machines and keep giving all their money to them.

They don’t deserve anything but this. They have worked out the one important feature of the machines. Casino has an edge. No matter where you go in the casino world, whether its to some swanky place or online, the paytables are set in a way that gives the House a mathematical advantage. There will be times when players have a hot streak and it will seem like all the jackpots are falling. That’s just the way statistics work their way to the one mathematical certainty. There’s no need for the House to rig the machines. The casino operators are going to win in the long term without having to cheat. There’s no way they will spoil a sure thing by risking detection as a fraud by regulators. The House will win in the end. So let’s put those sore losers right.

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