This is the worst thing about sports betting.
A close second is being shown the odds for every little thing during the live broadcasts.
Apple TV is the worst offender. Their coverage of Major League Baseball was already bad, but they found a way to make it even worse by constantly showing the odds of this, that, or the other.
The casino will be accounting/forecasting a 5% take across stakes made as it's super complicated with jackpot contributions/payouts and stuff.
These machines are there to be always accessible and to train the human in just the right way so as to get you addicted.
I used to work with a guy who had a long stint at IGT. He said the most popular game he ever "made" was to take his previously most popular game and just have one set of controls play 4 of the same game all at the same time on one screen.
All go towards the same thing - dopamine addiction as an activity.
I think I just wanted to say that the perception of a 90% "success rate" v's all or nothing with sports betting felt like a troublesome comparison, for me at least. These games arent safer or fairer at all - they are both doing the same thing - in different doses to different audiences.
Many of my slots players didn't consider what they did "gambling" at all.
This is totally disingenuous. Why else are gambling providers forced to include addiction recovery phone numbers with their ads?
> A ticket to the game is $100+, is that money wasted too?
No, and this is equally as insincere as your first statement. Gambling takes money without offering a fair return in goods or services.
Some people are sick and cant control themselves.
> No, and this is equally as insincere as your first statement.
Neither comments were insincere.
> Gambling takes money without offering a fair return in goods or services.
It provides entertainment, same thing tickets to the event provide. A lot cheaper than seeing the game in person too.
If people being sick and not being to control themselves required an intervention phone number in general, we'd run out of 10-digit numbers faster than Elon lasted in the government :)
> It provides entertainment, same thing tickets to the event provide. A lot cheaper than seeing the game in person too.
This 100% is the reason most if not all of my friends put money on the games. Not sure why this is so hard for A LOT of people to understand, putting money on the games gives many people I know more of a rush than sky diving