Yeah... assuming that you're just playing one of the originals, the most house edge that you're going to face is less than $15 in total losses (2.74% on Blue Samurai). If you wanted to minimize the cost of chatting you could even drop that down to less than $3 by playing Blackjack.

The total wager amounts, people overestimate them way too much.

You need to look the statistical loss by multiplying the house edge of your favored games with the requirements.