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I’ve seen that at the slots. People just staring. what got me was I saw someone win, the sounds and light where amazing, but I think I was more excited than
by acomjean 6y ago
I’ve seen that at the slots. People just staring.
what got me was I saw someone win, the sounds and light where amazing, but I think I was more excited than the winner.
If you play a lot maybe you get immune to the sensory overload that is a casino.
If you gamble the game I like to play is craps. It’s more social and a more fun way to loose your money.
- sokoloff 6y agoA craps table that has recently produced several wins for players (colloquially a “hot table”) is an amazing social experience. I prefer poker for a combination of mental exertion, social banter, and entertainment. You don’t have to be great at it for it to be a very slow bleed of chips and at a lot of low-limit tables, the other players are so fundamentally unsound that you can have a break-even or positive expected-value from fairly basic play that you could learn in a few hours.
- eric_h 6y agoI'm mediocre at poker but generally turn a profit in casino poker rooms. The trick is to never go up against the sharks unless you've got the nuts (for those not familiar, "the nuts" is a poker term that means the best possible hand on the table) I guess you also have to have developed the ability to identify who the sharks are at a poker table.
- dade_ 6y agoI was just reading about this phenomenon. It seems these machines have been designed to create flow in the gambler's mind. If the win disrupts this flow it is actually annoying to the player. https://www.vox.com/2014/8/7/5976927/slot-machines-casinos-addiction-by-design https://www.vox.com/2014/8/7/5976927/slot-machines-casinos-a...