Quote from: Silberman on Today at 04:59:58 AM

Quote from: Docnaster on January 30, 2023, 12:21:08 PM

Just like other businesses or like a shopping mall. There is no how you will tell.me that you beat the shopping mall after shopping. Even if you are given a loyalty card which you shop with, there is no discount. They are simply reducing the price of some products and increasing some and give you at what seems to be a cheap price, which is not in a real sense.
So, we all lose on a long run and the business owner takes the profit while we take satisfaction which could be fun for gamblers.

Exactly, we may save some money if we buy when there is a discount or when we receive some kind of bonus for our purchases, but stores do not sell their products for a loss, and the same is true for casinos, running a casino is expensive as their owners have to hire programmers, customer support, rent servers and many other things, and as such they cannot offer the services of their casinos for free, but instead of charging directly like a regular store they use the house edge to keep themselves in business, and as we can see it works very well as only a minority can beat the casino with regularity.

Yeah, those with firm discipline are the only ones who can beat the casino. But, those are rare people because once you got used to gambling the money, you will keep on coming back without even thinking twice. The thought of a lucky day will always be there, and you want to test it as much as possible or win back what you lose thru that kind of mentality.
Like OP said, even jackpot winners had been losing their money in a year or two, there may be cases where the winners ended up not even enjoying the profits but only thinking about going back to the casino to win more, which we know is a bad idea considering the house edge. I've never won a jackpot yet so I don't know how that feels, maybe I will have the same thought if I do so.