Hacker News Reader

Comment by Verdex | Hacker News Reader

There was an old Casino parody film from the mid 90s (iirc Mafia!).

Anyway, they had a scene where they were showing the different games that were being played in the casino. Things like a bunch of Saudi princes playing an extremely high stakes game of Candyland, etc.

One of the games was called the black hole or something like that. Anyway, people would step up to the table and the guy working the table would just sweep up their money into a hole and tell them they lost. It had a constant stream of people walking up to the table to lose money.

It's more or less the mental model that I use for gambling.

View on HN

Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VFgzneS0Dw

> It's more or less the mental model that I use for gambling.

Let me tell you a story. Fifteen years ago, a person named n4r9 made £10 at the blackjack table.

They turned around, left the casino, and never returned.

Now they're making 25 times that amount every day they step into the office.

And do you know who that person was?

Albert Einstein?

It's a Me! Mario!

I'm hooked. Who was that?

Michael Scott

n4r9

You're right. I did that wrong.

This is a slightly different topic (government spending), but I've always loved this old Onion News Network video: 'Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?'. The sentiment feels the same to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ

i'm always shocked the grandeur of places like mohegan sun, you walk in and you know it's nothing but losers that built that place, brick by brick, with a tidy profit for the owners and government too don't forget!

Isn’t this a scene from Vegas Vacation? Clark is betting on “guessing a number” that the dealer has in his head and so on?

>There was an old Casino parody film from the mid 90s (iirc Mafia!).

IIRC Mafia! was a parody of the Godfather series, or the mobster movies of the 70s-80s in general.

That is correct for the first half, but the Vegas scenes where he is "observing the floor" and showing the games, including the Black Hole, are parodying Casino scenes specifically.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com