A B or not a B
December 2nd 2007 08:19
It would be easy to get into gambling on the Net – or ‘gaming’ as some people call it. (Perhaps deleting that ‘b’ from the word gives it more status?) Everywhere you go you find sites telling you about things like the top poker room, or the best gaming sites, or the best casinos online.
It’s as if these sites think that all the world is desperate to gamble away their money. Maybe the world is, though I’m not. I find it’s hard enough earned as it is, without giving it away.
I’m intrigued by the claims on one site that the payout percentage is around 98.6. That surprises me because it’s a statistical fact that casinos and the like (and their online counterparts won’t be any different) don’t give more money away than they want to. This doesn’t mean that things are rigged, but that the machines and games work in such a way that the odds are almost always against the players. Own a casino and you make big money – you, not the customers.
Certainly, once in a blue moon, someone walks away with a lot of cash. Someone has to, otherwise the casinos would never attract any more customers. But just like taking a lotto ticket, gaming/gambling will seldom make you rich.
It’s as if these sites think that all the world is desperate to gamble away their money. Maybe the world is, though I’m not. I find it’s hard enough earned as it is, without giving it away.
I’m intrigued by the claims on one site that the payout percentage is around 98.6. That surprises me because it’s a statistical fact that casinos and the like (and their online counterparts won’t be any different) don’t give more money away than they want to. This doesn’t mean that things are rigged, but that the machines and games work in such a way that the odds are almost always against the players. Own a casino and you make big money – you, not the customers.
Certainly, once in a blue moon, someone walks away with a lot of cash. Someone has to, otherwise the casinos would never attract any more customers. But just like taking a lotto ticket, gaming/gambling will seldom make you rich.
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