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By targeting the worst players based on information stored about them in a database, it seems that they are doing the same thing a player would be doing if s/he
by dmoney 17y ago
By targeting the worst players based on information stored about them in a database, it seems that they are doing the same thing a player would be doing if s/he counted cards and bet high at a time when s/he was most likely to win.
- JabavuAdams 17y agoNo. The odds are already in the casino's favour, and the casino has more information than any of the players do. What they're doing here is identifying suckers, and further exploiting them. AFAIK, I don't know anyone with a gambling addiction, but when I hear the retarded ideas that people have about how probability works, it gives me pause. We're a select group, here on HN. Many of us took math classes beyond the first couple of years of high-school, and a lot of us went to university. The average person out there is at a severe disadvantage, especially when powerful corporate interests are exploiting well-known cognitive deficiencies.