Video poker machines as they are
Video poker machines lined up at the entrance to any casino are there only to take the money from suckers. They play to the their own greed, the get-rich-quick in the poor saps who can’t resist them. . . Poor losers. . . Keep hearing them complain they’re not winning enough. They return again and again to give more and more money to casinos. There’s only one thing you can say about these people. They have worked out the one important feature of the machines. 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 must always win. There will be times when players have a hot streak and it will seem like all the jackpots are falling. So let’s put those sore losers right. 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.