At least poker is fair. Funny enough fair gambling is considered illegal and immoral for some reason, but slot machines are okay, even as they are designed in every way to victimize dumb people.
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squaresinger@lemmy.world 10 hours agoPoker isn’t really a fun game. Try playing it without money. It gets boring super fast.
If a game needs money to be fun, it’s not a fun game.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Krauerking@lemy.lol 8 hours ago
Gotta get the money from the poors somehow, and someone with skill might win it back if its allowed to be skill based.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
I mean even if it were just better odds it would be worth it maybe. If I were regulating gambling, I would make sure that Casinos had to pay out at least 90% of what they brought in and distributed widely with some mathematical function that approximates a bell curve.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 7 hours ago
Ha yeah but profits must only go up so all the casinos would just pivot to something else. Sociopaths would never accept a 10% margin even on that large of a pool of money. Thats restaurant margin territory and you dont see the mafia running many legitimate restaurants for the income.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I’ve played it once in the past. Just the normal poker with five cards in your hand and you get two rounds of changing cards.
It was fun.
I lost 2 imaginary dollars.
lemonwood@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Play Balatro instead. It’s fun without money and has all the poker hands.