You can fool some people

I thought most Bingo customers like their experience and enjoy the fun.

Of course, the licensed bingo operators know well about their margin of the game.

All betting shops / amusement would display something like
“When the fun stops, STOP” to protect their businesses



Pretty sure some customers knows their profit margin, but still like to play as a “hobby”. Anyone else has bad habits?

I worked in a Bingo hall when I was university. Briefly. Loads of gambling addicts, utterly grim and the only job I've ever walked out on.

Back in the early 80's I can remember being in a public house that sold amongst other things Theakston's old peculiar and Draught Bass, as I walked in I saw a guy I knew by sight go up to the fruit machine, and open his pay packet ( yes some did get cash in those days ) about an hour later he was moaning to all and sundry that it was unfair and he'd just lost a weeks wages.
I'd been to the bar for a round and having seen it not pay out for some time decided to feed my loose change into the fruit machine, on the second or third spin it dropped the jackpot and held, this guy came over and started trying to take the money out to the tray at the bottom shouting that it was "his money" the landlord and a couple of people I was with dragged him away. the landlord kindly changed most of the coins up to notes.
I was walked home that night not because I was drunk, but because my mates feared he would attack me to get the money.

Yesterday, I met someone who makes a living for playing blackjack. I was told the boss is nearly in his 100, way past retirement age. The aim of the game is reducing the house edge and places bets when the opportunities come.

They travel to casinos everywhere, worldwide. Usually, they have to find another casino when someone tells them “You can’t play here, you know why”

What shocks me is the phone of the story teller, nothing fancy, just a 4 year old basic range smart phone with the bitten fruit at the back. If they really earn that much ….. not to mention, it’s not a sustainable career when their boss could literally pass away anytime, strangely even on the surface, very active and healthy man whom has the capacity of enduring high adrenaline and placing high stakes at his age.

Not everybody places status in their device. If it does the job, why change it?

I used to live near an extraordinarily wealthy chap, and met him a few times. And when I say "extraordinarily wealthy", I mean a leading member of a family that owns a LOT of serious business assets and routinely appears very high in the ST Wealth List. Not poor... Yet they drove a couple of grand's worth of decade old Chrysler sprogbus.

You can't judge somebody's wealth by a visible possession or two.

There is technically a way to win.

First is to realise that US style (now very common here) machines work completely differently to our traditional pub machine. For a given spin, the US pay distribution is independent of any previous spin. Thus for example, if someone has just won the Jackpot, the probability of another jackpop next spin is actually the same.

UK pub machines are not like that. They are indeed highly dependent as they guarantee the owner an increase in takings. This is done essentially by monitoring what the float is and if its low (there hasn't been any payouts for a while) it decreases the chances of a payout next spin. So if someone has just won a jackpot repeat the machine will move to a lean mode where it won't pay and vice-versa. The opposite is true. In fact if you were to try on a pub machine not to collect any win (by "gamlbing it on hi/lo for example") eventually the machine will give you the jackpot as its float has risen so high.

So yes, if you were really dull, you could monitor the machine for hours and play accordingly. No point doing that for a US slot machine.