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Topic
Board Gambling
Re: bustabit – The original crash game
by
RHavar
on 19/10/2019, 22:37:46 UTC
It seems to me that would be honest to gambling people to limit the maximum bet to 100,000 bits, if someone loses large sums it could ruin his life

It's a nice idea, but I think I could give you half a dozen reasons it wouldn't help (and might do the opposite). It'd be just as practical as if Smirnoff used a thinner neck in their vodka bottles, so that alcoholics can't pour as much as quickly.

But gambling addiction is a serious problem, although I'm not sure the solution. I toyed with the idea of creating a "charity casino" where people could play zero-edge games against a "donor" bankroll (where they have 0EV). That way people could get their fix of gambling without having to pay in expected value. (Basically the gambling equiv. of a "safe injection site" ) but I worry that it might end up just make people rationalize gambling that otherwise wouldn't have.

So the only thing I can see that I think is strictly beneficial is trying to make sure that casinos are consumer-friendly casinos as possible (i.e. fair, transparent, no manipulative/lockin bullshit like roll-over reqs etc.)