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Anon does mental math (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point of a casino is for the house to get more from player losses, on average, than players get from the casino via wins. Card counting cuts into profits. At small scale it doesn't really matter too much, and that's why they discourage it, to make sure it stays small scale.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I see, it's that there's a direct conflict of interest, whereas a grocery store doesn't exactly profit from you making a non-optimal choice of yogurt brand.