Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I once had a friend who didn't care about paytables. He was chasing the big hits. No matter how much I tried to convince him to stop playing shit paytables, he wouldn't, even if better ones at the same game were in the same casino at the same denominations.
Anyway I was with him in Vegas and he sat down at a $5 8-5 machine where it should have been 9-6.
I said to him, "Give me your wallet, I'll hold it while you play."
He asked why.
I replied, "Every time you hit a flush or full house, I'm going to steal $25 from you."
He answered, "What?! Why would you do that?"
I said, "Because that's what the casino is doing to you every time you play 8-5 and hit a flush or full house. They're reaching into your wallet and stealing $25 from you. So since you apparently don't care about that, I'm going to also steal $25 from you."
This actually made an impact. He said, "That's funny. Okay, you got me. I actually agree with you now. Yeah, this is really stupid for me to play machines like this. I guess you had to put it that way for me to see it."
I encourage doing the same to anyone you know who plays shitty paytables with disregard.