my perspective on things is that Aleph is probably closer to right than those that claim everything is jake;
and my reasons for this
the fact that there are so many ways to cheat; that when it comes to money, the ability to cheat someone without their knowing it; that they are basically faceless entities instead of viewed as real people … that this is a nearly fail-safe recipe for corruption.
if you are a gambler, and have played the slots (which are about 90% of what people play now) then you know that it takes nearly no time at all to have lost a sizeable amount of change… playing the games online. They are structured so that they get a big chunk of change out of you in order to cover all the bases on getting a jackpot. Shoot some of those games now have like 25 paylines… that adds up fast no matter what the credit value…
so to beleive that a player goes in and loses say $20 and then leaves things alone is not going to stand up to logical thinking. You must give the player credit for being smart enough to not throw away their whole bankroll on the pull of one slot game… meaning that if you’re only going to plan on losing $100, then you don’t go choose the 20 payline slot game and then play at credit values worth a $1 a shot, because that means you got 5 chances at hitting something on the slot game before you’re bankrupt.
hell no, any slot player with any kind of experience knows that in slots you need to stretch out your bankroll so that you can stay alive long enough to perhaps hit a nice win …. it is seldom you will walk into a casino and say to yourself; “I’ve only got $100. Somebody point me to the slot machine that will take it all in one pull of the handle!”.
quite the opposite.
so when you see yourself only making a few hundred bucks at a place and you’ve got more than one player; … and when you compare that place with another and you see that you consistently have small players at the one while the other seems to make a decent income with similar or less number of players… (*same software for both places) well its no great leap of faith from that point to guess that the place always producing small players may just be screwing you.
I see this a lot and its funny its always the same programs that have the small players isn’t it?
anyway, … its just damn hard for me to believe that there are players who come in and play to what amounts to only a few dollars actually exchanging hands over an entire month’s worth of time; on a consistent basis month after month. But that is what my stats would have me believe at some programs.
so to think that I’m only being told about 10% of the truth …. isn’t all that big a leap of faith when I consider that the place in question claims I made $100 that month (or less) and I add into the equation that a person would need nearly that much for just one gambling session in order to have any kind of chance at all of hitting a win… forget $100 for the whole damn month!
i know that may not be explained in the best way, so I hope you all get what I mean…
*edited to add that I am not accusing ALL programs of being cheats. Just saying it exists and in more than small quantities.