Is Sports Betting AP Play?

[OneHitWonder]

I hate to question the logic of our dear OneHit, but it has occurred to me that if casinos spent "billions" on research so their games are impregnable to APs, then at some point either the games were beatable or the casinos wasted one helluva lot of money. LOL. So now, after spending unspecified "billions," OneHit's argument is that the casinos have solved the issue, and all current APs are fibbing. That's a tad imprecise. I'd like to know, so I sleep better, was the problem solved after the first half billion in research, or the second, or the third, or is it possibly an ongoing investment casinos make to assure that nobody's walking off with their shekels?

If you're going to criticize gambling, it might be helpful to have some blessed idea what you're talking about.

Okay, so you don't want to productively argue the issues you have. Suffice it to say that if gambling is everywhere throughout the history of man, as, if I recall, V and you pointed out, but for differing motives, then we must have spent a lot of resources to better experience and understand it.

Sure, most if not all of the casino games were once beatable in some way at some time. Baccarat, eg, a derivative of blackjack, had various drawing rules before the presents ones. It took a while to figure out how to balance or randomize the game beyond just shuffling the cards. Just ask self-professed gambling expert Mickey about all of the things the casinos missed with slot machines.


P.S. Years ago, I wrote a 6,000 line Basic language program simulator for the game. It was set up to allow for the easy expansion of the code to cover every imaginable scenario of simulation. I offered it free online here and there. The source code. One company in California tried to pass it off as their own work, and sell it. They changed it superficially. You know what I did? I kept updating and re-offering it for free every other week until they it gave up. Simulations that the blackjack guys hadn't even thought of, in my opinion. Just for the fun of it.