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Re:The rising human cost of sports betting by renlo on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:14PM (#30152694)
Found it amusing reading this thread, thinking of gambling companies paying their lawyers to argue that gambling is "skilled based". Then, after gambling is legalized, they'd ban all of the skilled players so we'd go back to "luck based" gambling that their lawyers just argued was skilled based.
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Re:The rising human cost of sports betting by bruce511 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @12:14AM (#30158887)
You don't go back to luck based, you stay skilled based, but the only skilled player in the room is the house.

Baseball is a game of skill. So assume the Yankees could ban every skilled player who beat them. They make bank beating little-league rookies. It makes sense to keep the competition at that skill level.

Obviously we're referring to games like Blackjack here, not roulette, which are not purely random.

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