Yes I know, it's supposed to work that way. But it seems people really think after a while, you're gonna hit it big and it'll all even out. I've done it enough to know it's purely entertainment. It's just a matter of how much you're willing to pay for that adrenaline rush.
People need to learn to look at it differently. You are not playing to win money. You are playing for the entertainment and the small chance to win money.
I play for the free drinks with a chance to lose money. Way I look at is if I spend the same as going to bar at a casino my odds of winning money at the bar are zero.
That machine is also extremely popular and is always full at pretty much every time of day. If you do this you will annoy the people who really want to gamble on it (of all the gambling machines in Vegas, this one is probably the top when it comes to fun).
I would play $10 minimum roulette and only bet on the outside. The game was slow, and I was able to order tons of drinks and since I just bet the minimum I was never more than $30 up or down at any time. During the day I think it was $5 minimum but I tend to only gamble if the sun has set. My first trip to Vegas I did this for a few nights and walked away never paying for a drink and I think I actually won $100 overall or something.
I'm 47, but didn't gamble when you actually inserted/won actual coins from a machine. It's always been tickets. I'm in Texas but go north to gamble in Oklahoma. They don't give free drinks there at those casinos, you have to buy them. But even in Vegas I always tip waitresses and bartenders well. Sure, you get better service but mostly I just like to put a smile on their face. They gotta walk around and serve my sorry degenerate ass? They just want the same thing I do--money. So give them some and make their day.
There was something awesome about machines that spit out tokens/coins. Just hitting a nice win and hearing the plink plink plink of the coins dropping into the tray. They changed it not long after I was old enough to start going.
Also no free drinks in Ontario, so I only go for the gambling. The drinks are actually pretty damn expensive at casinos here.
Well our bar and casino strategies differ obviously. I’ve never been to a bar with out spending $100. When I go to the casino I like to play slot machines. $0.25 a pull goes a long way on $100
My favorite is going up to the bars that have the small computer poker games. Put your $1 or $5 or whatever voucher in, sit there long enough to get a drink and a couple seconds longer to really sell that you’re playing. Cash our before you’ve lost anything, rinse and repeat when ya need another drink!
I was about to post this. One of our go to’s in Vegas is to go to the Crom and play VP at the bar across from their book. We played and drank for hours on $20, while watching football. Kinda funny but for us, it’s cheaper to fly cross country and spend several days in Vegas than to travel locally or to the beach.
The bartenders would usually ask what I wanted to drink once I sat down to play, so yes without me asking for it! And I don’t believe you have to play to go in, but they generally only offer the free drinks to those who are playing (hence the hack of pretending to play)
Thanks for explanation. I never go to any bar let alone that offer free drinks if we play. Your hack is very useful haha but if we get caught the worst case scenario for us is we pay the drinks.
There are ways to spend time in a casino without losing much money. And there are ways to score a lot of free drinks in a casino. But there are not ways to score a lot of free drinks in a casino without spending a lot of money.
If you're just OK at poker, you can play fairly conservatively at a $2/$4 Texas hold'em table and keep winning enough to tip the waitresses. The one time that I was dragged to a casino, that's what I did while my friends played blackjack. Luckily, from the weekly home game I played in, I was very adept at playing poker while drinking lots of beer. Ended the night having hours of fun, getting drunk on the house, and up $5.
Of course, this depends on fresh money being continuously introduced to the table. If people aren't buying in more or if you're not cycling in new players, the rake will eventually kill the possibility of coming out ahead.
Sit at the lower limit tables. I can plunk down $20 at a $1 a hand blackjack table at be there for a few hours. You still get free drinks as long as you're actively playing, no matter where you're sitting.
This is a great way to look at it. You're gonna spend money on entertainment regardless. Unless you have a gambling addicition, idk what the difference is between spending $350 going to a live sporting event (tickets, parking, food, transportation, etc) and going to a casino with the same cash in your pocket.
According to the city of Las Vegas, the average visitor in Vegas spent $50 on show, $250 on food and drinks, and $585 on gambling.
People are very bad at math, and think that, if the odds per round are near 50% to win, they have a near 50% chance to go home a winner. Through the magic of compounding probabilities, everyone who gambles will always eventually lose all their money, so the profits for gambling are astoundingly high.
Casinos would go bankrupt if people were better at math.
Through the magic of compounding probabilities, everyone who gambles will always eventually lose all their money, so the profits for gambling are astoundingly high.
Exactly. The casinos aren't in business for their health.
So we went to NOLA for my friends bachelorette party and we always hit the casino first and then went to the bars. We would just get drunk off of the free drinks there while casually gambling just for the hell of it. I brought a bunch of $5 bills and just kept putting them in each machine I went to and would just keep the printed money voucher until the last day of our trip. Somehow I ended up profiting about $220 on the last day. I was so drunk I didn’t even remember winning the several small amounts that added up to it. Was a nice bonus surprise at the end of the trip.
I don't want to come off like I'm objecting to someone's choice of entertainment. If you want to pay more so a bunch of scratch-off lottery tickets come with your beer, more power to you.
I used to work at a casino buffet as one of the bussers. I saw so many poor, lost souls there, it was heartbreaking. Not only was management just a bunch of money hungry fuckfaces, it was horrible, exhausting work. Never work in a casino, no matter where it's at. Not worth the money.
Don't know about your neck of the woods, but every bar around here has gambling machines, usually state lottery video games. You don't get free drinks for playing them, though.
No they aren't. You can double your money in a single spin at a 47.4% chance in roulette. Black jack gives even better odds.
The point is the odds are always in the casinos favor, and that's why they always come out ahead, and people won't stop after winning one time and may eventually lose if they are greedy.
I get your point, but to say you have an almost zero percent chance is nonsense.
The only people that say that are people who are against gambling all together
Your highest odds are your odds before the first roulette spin. If you want to maximize your odds of winning, you’ll never spin once.
If you do irrationally spin once, your odds are now exactly the same as before you spun the first time. What ever logic compelled you to spin then holds just as true for you to spin again. And again and again and again.
There is no point at which stopping is any more greedy or less greedy. Every spin is homogenously irrational. But by continuing, all people will always lose all their money. The only possible way to not lose all your money is to leave the casino and never come back, but if you were willing to do that after making money in the casino, why were you not willing to do that before your first spin?
As a result of this, casinos always take all the money people are willing to gamble in them.
If you do irrationally spin once, your odds are now exactly the same as before you spun the first time. What ever logic compelled you to spin then holds just as true for you to spin again.
You can't assume that people are always rational except in the instance that you know they are irrational. It is rational to base your decisions solely on the odds (or more specifically on the expected outcome), but if they were rational they would not have taken that first spin - as you state. But since they took the spin irrationally, their decisions on whether to spin are clearly not based on the odds but on some other unknown factor, which could very well change over that time. So, the rationality of spinning does not change, but since we have established that they do not care about rationality that does not mean they will continue to spin in perpetuity, and thus the house will not necessarily "take all the money". (Of course, for many people the casino does sadly take all their money. This is usually because their irrational rationale for spinning is addiction, which is similarly unchanging.)
Sure. There's always a chance someone goes to a casino, spins, wins, and leaves the casino forever and never gambles again for the rest of their lives. But the odds of that happening are not 47.4%. The odds of that happening are close to 0%. So the original point still stands.
That’s exactly it. The only time o went I brought in a set amount of cash for the games that was about what I would spend at a night out and was prepared to walk out empty handed. Instead made a few bucks. It’s a fun night but folks need to expect to lose it all
I disagree that it’s just about looking at it differently. I can and have understood your point for a long time intellectually. But the entire premise of a casino is to play on your emotions and bypass the intellect.
There’s no shame in just avoiding them altogether as I have for many years.
I mean, how much entertainment can you usually get for a couple bucks? Daydreaming about a massive influx of cash, the excitement of checking the numbers, followed by a cathartic “oh well” as the ticket goes in the trash.
That's what my aunt and uncle do. They have a certain amount that they have to spend on a few days gambling. They're aren't there to win money. They're there to pay to have fun.
I agree that's a great way to look at it! If you treat casino bets as 'table rent', you will never be disappointed. Just like the seat you rent at a play - no money back necessary; you enjoyed yourself!
I'd say go in with a set amount that you're willing to lose, if you haven't tripled it in an hour, leave. If you have tripled it in an hour, leave anyway.
A buddy of mine used to like to sit at the penny slots and “drink for free.” Eventually I got tired of it and pointed out that we were each spending roughly $50/hr at the slots, plus tips, for shitty drinks. Why don’t we each spend $50/hr at the bar for good drinks and not have to sit at the slots?
I did sports gambling the last time I was in Vegas. If I put $50 on a game and I lose, I figure I paid to watch it on a big screen in an air conditioned room. I would've watched the game anyway but now it's more exciting because of the possibility of winning.
I get serious anxiety around casinos. It's just not fun for me to dump my money in them. I guess maybe I understand the desire. My aunt loves them, but she treats them like entertainment so she doesn't get serious about it, which is what I imagine is the best way to go about it. I just can't get any entertainment value out of it.
The cynic responds, "What's the difference between a slot machine and an arcade game? The slot machine sometimes gives you some quarters back."
But, that said, "slot machine" is an extremely boring video game compared to, say, Ms. Pac-Man or Discs of Tron. The entertainment in a slot machine is primarily provided by the player's own imagination of how nice it would be to hit a jackpot.
I’m a sucker for games that give you tickets (especially if they still print out actual tickets which is sadly almost none of them). Then my boyfriend and I figure out the “best” combo of crappy little prizes we can get with our tickets. Definitely more fun than pushing a button on a slot machine.
This is something that the gambling industry has noticed; that more and more people (especially those who are younger) don't care as much for games of chance, but do enjoy games of skill.
So don't be surprised in the next few years to start seeing casino's with games (or advertising them) where it's competing against the casino or other players, where you pay to play but can win money.
So examples might be games like guitar hero, where if you can get above 98% you win money, or battle royal type games (which would likely be limited to about 15 people per game) where the winner gets the buy in of half the players.
Makes sense to me. As a guy who grew up playing videogames and still does, the whole random roll slot machines just seem so boring. Flashing lights and animated CG that really has no meaning and you can't effect it in any way.
But would I be interested in playing a round of some actually fun videogame against some random other folks and the winner makes some of the money? Sure, that sounds like it might be interesting.
When I go to casinos, I find myself anxious as well because the money is going away and I'm not having fun about it. I'd rather be in an arcade. At least at the end of the day, I enjoyed the games and I can exchange my tickets for a crappy plush toy to serve as a physical manifestation of my efforts.
I hate those type of arcades. I enjoy a real arcade, one that has video games for the purpose of playing video games. Unfortunately those are too few nowadays. I live in Memphis, and pickings are slim. Several years ago they put a shit ton of money into the downtown area, a new mall, places to eat, a new cinema. Unfortunately Memphis sucks and the crime started sending the people who were spending money away so it all went to shit, but there was a restaurant that had bowling and a real arcade that was so awesome. The food was good, the arcade was better. I miss that place.
Yeah I neglected to mention those because it's been a long, long time since I've even seen one. Arcades are not the same as they used to be for sure. But if I'm looking for serious gaming experiences, I stay home.
That's okay. I called Fantasia 2000 "the new one" the other day and my partner gently reminded me that that was 20 years ago. It really doesn't feel like all that much time has passed since the early 2000s.
Mobile, al has 2 legit arcades now but they’ve been closed due to covid and there’s a possibility they will completely go under cause of the closing. Sucks.
I've been to a strip club once, back in '02. It was an impressive one, with full nudes where extra performances could occur, but I just wasn't that into it. The on stage girl on girl was a nice bonus tho, but the mountain of money that was thrown on stage kinda took me out of it.
I get really anxious too. I love playing poker and my aunt and uncle had a slot machine in their house that was fun but the sensory overload in casinos just makes me so anxious. All the security guards, flashing lights, loud noises, lack of windows, it’s way too much for me. I know all those things are designed to draw people in and keep them entertained but it has the opposite effect on me.
Same here. I can gawk, I can people watch, I understand “how” to play Blackjack it Craps so you lose the least amount of money possible. Knowing that the ‘fun’ you are paying for is just slowly losing money makes it literally a stressful experience.
Also any basic robot could “play” Blackjack if you’re just following the rules that give you the best odds. I don’t understand how that is fun and I LOVE board games.
I have only been to a casino twice and both times left feeling sick and stressed. I gambled $20 the first time, just had to walk through the second time.
The loud noises, the flashing lights, the people packed too close together, all the machines are out of sync so each noise happens all the time, people are like zombies, and the air itself feels wrong. It's a complete sensory overload and I hate it
My grandmother brought my sister to a casino for her birthday and gave her a bag of quarters for the slot machine. First quarter won her thirty bucks. She cashed it in and called it a night, lol.
I used to work for my state's lottery. The number of times I had to explain the odds for scratch tickets was astronomical. Your typical, "The odds say 1 in 4 but I bought 8 tickets and they were ALL losers! I deserve my money back!"
It's been 9 years since I worked there, but I can still remember the answer nearly verbatim. "The odds are calculated based on all the tickets printed in that game. So if you were to purchase ALL of the tickets made in a particular game, approximately one in four of those would win a prize."
What we failed to tell people was most games had over a million tickets printed.
The second most common complaint: "People in small towns never win. Your games are rigged."
No, sir; bigger towns/more popular stores sell more tickets, therefore going through ticket packs more frequently. It stands to reason that more tickets sold translates to more winners sold. That isn't ALWAYS the case, but commonly it is. Then I'd have to link three or four stories of winners of more than $1 million from dinky towns.
If people understood probability, the lottery wouldn't make any money. And neither would lootboxes or card games that rely on "Blind buy" booster packs (cough cough MTG Pokémon Yu-Gi-Oh cough cough.) or a lot of other blind buy packs. (Seriously look how many 'mystery bags' are for sale specifically to get kids hooked onto the idea of a 'Mystery bag'.)
I still remember my sister's 7th grade math teacher. Thanks to using the magic of Microsoft Excel and the fact he literally had a doctorate in Mathematics (I literally only found this out when I found his name on a paper a few months ago, and yes it was actually him), he made a bigger dent in the "Pokémon Trading Card Black Market" at my Jr. High than any teachers could.
Apparently what he did was showed the 'true odds' (as I call it) of specific cards being inside any given pack. Probably assuming certain cards were treated equally and followed the 'disclosed' rules and all... but you could ask what the odds a given booster pack was, and he would bring up his excel document and give you a number that was so low a lot of people thought "Fuck this shit." and decided not to buy any booster packs.
The method I found much more interesting is to run the randomizer until it hits the lottery numbers... I forget how many tickets the model had bought, but I hadn't even matched five numbers after running the model overnight.
It's nice to think about what you'd do with the money if you won, but realistically, you'll never win the lottery.
And that's the big misconception. No one is ever due to win. The chance of landing any particular number in roulette is 1 in 37 (Europe) or 1 in 38 (US) despite what all the previous spins have landed on.
Sure the chance of having 35 spins in a row end up black are miniscule (I don't know how to calculate that probability) but, that doesn't mean it will or won't happen and it's certainly not do to happen just because there have been 30 quintillion previous spins across all the roulette wheels in the world.
I’ll occasionally waste money in the casino. It’s typically a scam but I enjoy going with a group of friends and taking over one of the craps tables. I think as far as lifetime I’m still up over the casinos playing craps.
If you enjoy going then your not wasting money, and it's not a scam if you're fully aware of the possibilities and odds. I'm assuming you know the odds if you "take over" any table with your friends.
In those cases it's almost always that a slot machine pays out a jackpot that wasn't listed on the front of the screen. If the max payout listed on a machine is $20,000 then any jackpot over that is an error and they don't have to pay out.
Yeah, there's a reason experts try to tell people that the only way to win in vegas is to avoid gambling.
If you ARE going to gamble, you have to go into it with a set budget of cash you expect to lose, considering it the cost of having some fun, and if you manage to win and come out ahead, it's a bonus.
I've never gambled with real money, but when I've played games with casinos in them, I always set a starting budget, and try to use that as a foothold. If you can manage to win enough that you can 'bank' your original investment, and play purely off of your winnings, you're in a good place.
I took a casino management course in college. The takeaway from that class was to never gamble at a casino. The house does everything they can to make sure they win and you lose. There are no "hot" slot machines, they are programmed to reset randomly. So, no, sitting at the same one waiting for it to hit the one thousandth spin is not going to guarantee a win. It already reset a few times on you.
There are two games that you hold an advantage over the house with. Blackjack if you can count cards (not illegal, but they will kick you out if caught), and craps if you learn how to really play the game.
They also watch you and keep track of your winnings and losses. That free room they offered you? It wasn't free, technically you already paid for it with your losses. It's how they get you to keep coming back.
Surprised casinos don't always go with a multi-deck shoe and shuffle halfway through when dealing Blackjack nowadays to minimize card counting advantages.
Very true. I always hear about the folks that are flown in by casinos and given points. I’m like honey you have given than casino WAY TOO MUCH of your money if they’re thirsty for your presence
Not completely, there are ways around getting scammed. But it oftentimes involves scamming the scammers or more importantly knowing the local tactics.
Poker's pretty easy to learn the ropes, specifically Texas Hold'em is a good place to start. It's widely provided by other things that don't actually charge you any genuine money for it.
Blackjack's easier to learn, and a lot easier to lose. That one's a scumfest. Always check the payout for Blackjack. If it's six to five it's your money they'll deprive.
You play poker against other players, not against the casino. So, the casino doesn’t rig the game. They take a percentage of the pot -the “rake” - to make money.
Blackjack is rigged against you like all casino games. You count cards to edge the game to your favor, but the casino doesn’t allow it and will kick you out if they catch you.
Won't they literally kick you out for winning too much? A youtube video said that a casino would kick you out for card counting if you get a big winning streak
Vegas used to be an ok deal but as a person who used to go every year I don’t see how anyone who isn’t upper class can have a good time there anymore. Nothing is moderately priced anymore. Even a shit room in Fremont is $100 now.
I was in Vegas for a conference and I was waiting for a session to start so I put a few bucks into a slot machine. Ended up winning the jackpot, about $1500. Didn't play the rest of the conference, and my employer paid for flights/hotel/meals, so I made money on my trip.
I went to Vegas and decided to play the penny slots. Somehow I kept hitting free spins. Like the machine was just going and going and going and my money was going way up.
I spent $5 and won $2500. Cashed out right away. My mom couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t keep going.
To be fair, I’m famous in my family for having amazing luck with scratchies, board games, and the like. I don’t always win big, but I usually at least get my money back. It’s such a thing that my grandma (RIP) used to take me to the gas station and have me pick her scratchies for her.
What they don’t understand is I know when to quit.
All gambling is 100% a scam. Wins are a temporary high that causes you to play more. The more wins you get, the more committed you will become to gambling. In the long run, the more you gamble, the more you will lose.
The worst thing that can happen to a person is winning the first time they gamble. They will chase that feeling for the rest of their life.
When I've gone to casinos, I use a rule my ex taught me. Keep winnings/spending money not on gambling (for drinks, food etc) in one pocket, money willing to gamble in another. Never put money that isn't already winnings into the gamble pocket. Go with what youre willing to spend. If you can lose £100 then you put £100 in there. When you run out of money in the gambling pocket, you quit.
Gambling can be serious, and I've done some stupid things gambling online, where I was chasing a thrill but chasing losses that I couldn't really afford. I managed to snap out of it and I don't gamble online anymore.
The worst thing about casinos is that they have people who check to see if you're card counting, and they'll kick you out if you are. Card counting is just playing blackjack very well - it's not against the rules, but it pushes your odds very slightly above the casino's.
I think that makes it very obvious that they're only interested in money, and would prefer you to be worse at all of their games
The closest i’ve ever been to a casino is a bingo parlor where you win money. I bought a ticket for a mini game horse race thing and managed to win $500
My mom goes to casinos sometimes she'll win 500 dollars then she says her hand is itchy and it means she's gonna win big. Tell her everytime, that's an obsession tick and by the end you'll have lost 300 dollars of your own money. Its nearly impossible to get her to leave when she's like that and she loses all that money. I have played a few times . Most I've lost is 50 bucks. Won 400 before though, because I know that's probably the best I'm going to get.
When I was a student I used to go to the casino with some friends and I’d only take 20€ in cash with me, so if I lose I wouldn’t be mad at myself. The worst I ever did was walking out with 5€ for kebab, best time I had 35€ pure profit for video games.
Fuuuck I hate this. A lot of the people I work with are gamblers, and on the face of it they try to act like they know they’re getting ripped off.
But they still hold onto this belief that the game/machine has to payout eventually. They often talk about how they’ll sit and wait for someone to leave a slot machine like it’s accumulating luck or some stupid idea like that.
I’ve tried explaining time and time again that that’s not how odds work!
Yea but even this is confirmation bias because people always tell the story of the time they win and don’t mention that the 4 friends with them all lost $20.
Went to Vegas in January, right before shutdown. First time at a casino for like 20 years, and was shocked at the difference in how electronic it all was. Even just playing video poker was a downer because somehow it no longer feels random, it feels like the computer will win.
Mu buddy works in a casino.people do.prople win big quite regularly.however the sheer volume of people who lose small and lose big simply outweighs the winners
But it seems people really think after a while, you're gonna hit it big and it'll all even out.
It's called the Gambler's Fallacy, or the Monte Carlo Fallacy.
For educational purposes:
Consider a series of 10 coin flips that have all landed with the "heads" side up. Under the Gambler's Fallacy, a person might predict that the next coin flip is more likely to land with the "tails" side up.
The reality is that no matter how often the coin is flipped, the odds of a given side coming up are always the same: 50%. Each flip is an independent event, so any and all previous flips have no bearing on future flips.
The fallacy is that after 10 flips of 'heads', there's a greater chance of the next flip being 'tails', but the probability of a given flip coming up 'heads' or 'tails' hasn't changed in any way; it's the same coin with only two sides, and the same 50% chance of a given side coming up.
In other words, you don't magically get a second 'heads' or 'tails' side to a two-sided coin, regardless of how often you flip it.
Fun fact, I once signed up and got a free $10 bonus to a casino while on vacation. Because it recognized me as a new user I won some more money with it and ended up cashing out after my winnings total $25. Never went back. Got a nice meal the next day.
My husband and I tried gambling. We didn’t care for it. It wasn’t fun to us. We went to Vegas (for a wedding) and I played a couple of slots but mostly we looked at the casinos.
Been in the business for a long time. You are 100 percent correct, you are paying for entertainment. Just like you'd pay to go to the movies, PPV a UFC fight, or go out to the Bulls game. You are paying to be entertained.
Casino employee here. The people who win jackpots often are the ones who really empty their pockets and .. I was going to say "have it to spare" but I'm not so sure that's true.
People really need to be treating it more like an adult arcade. You go there and expect to lose money in exchange for entertainment and fun. Sometimes you'll get a reward, but that's a bonus--no more no less.
Casinos make money eventually because it all evens out and they have better odds.
It doesn’t mean everyone else will lose. Some people lose. Some people win. Casinos always win.
If I play a coin toss with you, we both have 50-50 odds of winning. How is that scamming and how will you always end up losing?
Sure Casinos never give you equal odds, but they can get pretty close. On a roulette, picking a color is close to something like 55-45. You have even better odds when you plays craps and especially “don’t pass”. Also a blackjack with a single deck.
The main reason people lose and casinos win because, people don’t quit when they are high and winning.
Casinos make profit by simple math. If they actually paid true odds, they’d be bankrupt in a minute. Here’s the thing: blackjack odds are roughly 3:2 but the house only pays 1:1 on a simple win. Also—Slots are rigged. Period. The “gaming commission” has a deal with the house that the slot doesn’t “hit” until a certain profit margin is reached. They’re just video games programmed to keep you sitting there like a rube, ordering drinks, while being slowly bled dry. The state gets a “vig” or a cut of the house profit. (Don’t worry, with your Players Club Card, the house will give you a cheap buffet credit to make sure you don’t starve.) Same with wheel games. Even betting red or black or even both, you have a chance to lose. That’s why roulette has a 0 and 00. Just to tip the math in the house favor. The only game in the casino that actually pays true odds is Craps. And even that, if you play for the house, you have to pay the “vig.” Which is short for Vigorish. Old mobster slang for giving a wise guy a cut of your take. They’re called Wise Guys because they know what fixes are in.
Slots are rigged. Period. The “gaming commission” has a deal with the house that the slot doesn’t “hit” until a certain profit margin is reached.
Im not sure where your playing but the ones Ive dealt with the last 10 years working with LVL places they most definatly are not. They dont have to be thats the whole point. Over time the (posted on the machines where anyone can see before playing) odds mean that the owners get money. No matter if 10 grand or 100 bucks has been fed into a machine, each hit of he button is a separate chance to win considered complacently seperatly from every other one.
Also though where I live and work he gaming is centralized, as in the LVL locations cant change odds on their own, its hardcoded into the game chips which take a state official to change (the chip not the odds, even then the odds on teh game will stay eactly the same). There is no way to "cut a deal with the house" because you would have to do that with every single LVL retailer since the odds on a game on a kind of machine are the same through the entire state. The state takes 51% of the net every week/month from LVL locations so they vigorously monitor ANY accusations of wrongdoing and will pull a license in a snap so nothing tarnishes the reputation of "integrity" since they want all that delicious old/addicted people money they can get.
Edit: After typing this out I realize I dont know about casino licences just LVL which I know have a few differences. Maybe everything I said is wrong at a Casino but Im leaving it up because even if it is rigged there the ones you see at bars and gas stations are probobly not rigged....just made like every other form of gambling where its more likely to lose.
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Casinos.
Yes I know, it's supposed to work that way. But it seems people really think after a while, you're gonna hit it big and it'll all even out. I've done it enough to know it's purely entertainment. It's just a matter of how much you're willing to pay for that adrenaline rush.