> Yet casinos make money despite not knowing the outcome of each game. Each game? No. Stay at the machine and table long enough and their confidence you'll los

> Yet casinos make money despite not knowing the outcome of each game. Each game? No. Stay at the machine and table long enough and their confidence you'll lose approaches 100%. They then "diversify" that over many players and nudge even closer to 100% certainty. Put another way, no one - not even the state - is fighting to get out of the gambling business. There's a reason for that.