Casino Platform Analogies

Users draw parallels between online platforms or games and casinos, emphasizing how the 'house' bans exploits, advantage plays, or consistent winners to ensure profitability, much like real-world casinos with card counting or edge sorting.

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csunbird May 10, 2020 View on HN

This also applies to real world casinos :)

malkia Apr 8, 2015 View on HN

This is a bit like saying cheaters are discouraged at casinos. In fact they are banned.

imglorp Dec 18, 2019 View on HN

Sounds like playing in a casino. They're cool with it until you win too much.

naringas Dec 19, 2019 View on HN

It's very similiar to running a casino

juddlyon Dec 18, 2012 View on HN

You're in their casino, you play by their rules. The house always wins.

razakel Nov 14, 2017 View on HN

Getting your credit card out is only a "game mechanic" in dodgy casinos. There's a reason gambling is regulated.

xapata Nov 26, 2020 View on HN

Yep, indeed I am. The same way I think casinos don't mind if you try to count cards at blackjack.

jim_kaiser Oct 15, 2011 View on HN

This could be the next generation of casino games.. the house always wins.

bmmayer1 Oct 7, 2014 View on HN

Yup. Sounds about right.Read about Phil Ivey, who used a similar "hack" to advantage play in Baccarat.Casinos really can't have it both ways. If they want to make money from people gambling money, they need to assume the risk of losing the gamble through their own incompetence.If they released a table game with a negative house edge (due to some mathematical miscalculation) and most of the people who played it won money, they would figure out their mistake, pull the game

revskill Nov 19, 2022 View on HN

Except for the "casino" viewpoint ?