Video poker machines are a con
No matter where you go in the casino world, whether its to some swanky place or online, the paytables are set in a way that gives the casino a mathematical advantage. Of course, sometimes players have the luck, but they are almost always lose next time. Then those streaks will go cold. That’s just the way statistics work their way to the one mathematical certainty. The casino operators are going to win in the long term without having to cheat. There’s no way they will spoil a sure thing by risking detection as a fraud by overlords.
Notice, video poker machines lined up at the entrance to any casino, or lurking in the corner of social clubs where the local gambling ordinances permit them. They’ve invented to take money from those players without will power. They play to the greed, the get-rich-quick in the poor saps who can’t resist them. . . Dirty little losers. . . Keep hearing them complain they’re not winning enough. Keep seeing them coming back to the machines. There’s only one thing you can say about these people.