Comment by StanislavPetrov
4 years ago
>It is still a negative-sum game, but some people have not yet realised that they lost.
And some people have not lost at all. As a lifelong poker player, the calculus is very much the same. A poker game where rake is taken out is a negative-sum game. But that doesn't mean that every player loses, even if they play forever. There will be more net losses than net wins, but these are not evenly distributed.
That's a pyramid scheme and/or gambling. You're relying on many marks to lose money to make money.
There's a reason we regulate or ban that.
Yeah, that's gambler thinking.
In reality, you're going to lose money.
As long as there are 2 or 3 guys like you sitting at the poker table its very difficult to lose!