• TheSpectreOfGay [he/him, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    yea your luck modifier decreases after you get lucky, but it resets each day. just only play blackjack on high luck days and only once each day. i recommend downloading a mod to show an icon when you are having a good luck day. also carry a rabbit's foot and eat luck increasing food

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Also yes, a casino will give you a hundred billion dollars if you win enough because they are bound by the rules of the shadow games

    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      if the pitboss asks you to leave after winning, you are legally allowed to shadow realm them for disrespecting the heart of the cards

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Marx: a coat is worth a combination of a roll of linen and the labor put into manufacture

    Liberalism: the richest person on earth is worth 32 instances of hitting 21 baby

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I constantly say this quote to people around me as if they'd know it. It's just a good quote.

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I used to work in customer support taking phone calls. I once chatted with an older bloke from somewhere in USA who claimed to have made a living playing poker, never having had a real job.

    He said "You don't even have to be good at poker. You just have to be better than the people you are playing with."

    Wild.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      It's true. There was a short time in the early 2000s where playing online with even a vague knowledge of stats (or a calculator) and a conservative playstyle could net you a very comfortable living.

      Then the bots started. But it was fun.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      I knew a couple that did that, old hippies and math geniuses, they raised a kid and have a pretty nice house. It's basically sticking to a formula that eeks you out a bit of profit over a long period. It seems worse than working a real job to me.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        plus in most instances you get to breathe cigarette smoke the whole fucking time at the tables

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Not here. The casinos are run by the government and are smoke free. They run the casinos but electricity is privatized.

      • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Any time I find myself in a casino it's the only thing I do, I almost always win some money but I can't imagine relying on something like that for actual income. I've heard many stories of people having mental breakdowns during extended cold streaks.

        Counterpoint for live poker specifically - it's incredibly cathartic taking a whole bunch of money from an obnoxious trust fund kid.

    • FanonFan
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      4 months ago

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    • oktherebuddy
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      1 year ago

      I am pretty sure "making a living playing poker" is just a way to put money laundering income on your taxes

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      1 year ago

      poker has an element of competitive skill, and also since you're playing against other gamblers and not the house, you're not gonna get ejected for winning.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    if my back of the napkin math is correct, you have less than a 1 in a 50 million chance of winning 32 hands of blackjack in a row, and that is assuming the very very optimistic odds of 50% per hand. But really it should be lower odds than that.

    • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      But did you take into account that there is at least 24 hours between each win?

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        you're definitely closer to correct than I was. it's whatever this number is as a percentage: 0.000000000232830643654 = (or 2.32830643654e-10)

    • Moss [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      No? I think you're not very good at maths. The chances are 50%, because you'll either win or lose

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        1 year ago

        but I don't think the odds of winning are fifty-fifty. every card dealt changes the odds that you'll win based upon how many later cards could have you win, as well as the rest of the table/dealer winning first. Say you get a face-value card first. you odds of winning are pretty good, as you can get really close to 21 without busting with whatever your next card is, there are 11 cards that could make you a lock on victory the next round, so the odds of winning in two rounds are 12/52 times 11/50. But, someone else could also get those two cards theoretically, and their odds are 11/51 times 10/50. but in actuality, your odds change when they get these cards, so i you both get face-value cards on the first deal the odds you' both get them the second deal are 12/52 time 10/50 and 11/51 times 9/49 respectively. Then either you bust first or get an ace. The odds of getting an ace are 4/48 at this point. meanwhile, the odds of busting are 44/48. so all in all, the odds of winning a perfect game would be 12/52 times 11/50 times 4/48, which equals a 0.423(rounded) percent chance. That is just one way to win, obviously, but my point is that the game is not 50/50, but a complex interaction of different probabilities.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      1 year ago

      I think to properly calculate this, we'd have to work out every possible winning hand in blackjack, then work out the probability for each one individually coming up in a game. There's a more annoying question of how likely you are to win by not busting while others do, which makes the question unanswerable so we'd have to put in stock variable to work through it with.

      This is the most I have thought about math in years and I'm surprised I can actually work it out somewhat.

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Just bet on literally everything possible and you'll come up rich as hell.

    Disclaimer: I once applied for a job that was at a place that had a financial planning department somewhere in the building.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    maximum blackjack bet at Bellagio (for example) is $10,000