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Video poker machines are a con
Look at them, video poker devices that are lined up at the entrance to any casino, or lurking in the corner of social clubs where the local gambling ordinances permit them. Their main aim is to take money from unskilled players. They play to the greed, the get-rich-quick in the poor saps who can’t resist them. . . Little dirty losers. . . Keep hearing them complain they’re not winning enough. They’ll return to machine instead of all. There’s only one thing you can say about these people. The House 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. Then those streaks will go cold. That’s just the way statistics work their way to the one mathematical certainty. The House will win in the end. So let’s put those sore losers right. There’s no need for the House to rig the machines. There’s no way they will spoil a sure thing by risking detection as a fraud by regulators.
