Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post

Other People's Money is a big concept in some AP play. However, the losers money becomes the houses money then becomes the vulture's money. When an AP walks with the win he puts a dent in the houses bottom line.
It is an interesting argument and really comes down to the semantics of who owns what money at various times.

An AP makes the average RTP lower for others by picking off the +EV spots. However, it can be reasonably assumed losers will ultimately lose the money back anyway. The AP won money comes out of the pockets of the casino in the long-run but also out of the pockets of other players in the short-run. It is all perspective but the word vulture still cracks me up just because of the analogy. I don't think it is good to refer to the business in such a way as it is definitely negative.