You can’t beat the house. Ever.

Posted on 28 December 2009   |   by Wendy Norris   |   Print This Post Print This Post

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The technical wizards at the Las Vegas Sun created a virtual slot machine to demonstrate how they work and the long-held myths of beating the house. Hint: You can’t.

An important lesson as cash-strapped states often look to gambling revenues to prop up budgets. All the Rocky Mountain States have both private and Indian-owned casinos with the exception of Utah, where gambling is banned with the exception of tightly-regulated poker and bingo parlors.

h/t chartporn.org

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Wendy Norris is the editor and publisher of Western Citizen. I was named a 2010-11 Knight Fellow and will be attending Stanford University to develop Web and mobile civic engagement applications through persuasive technologies. I have had the good fortune to twice be named a Knight Digital Media Center fellow for studies in news entrepreneurship at the USC-Annenberg School for Communications and multimedia reporting at the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In 2010, I was also designated an H.F. Guggenheim Fellow at CUNY’s John Jay College Center for Media, Crime and Justice for a series of stories on domestic terrorism at women’s health centers. Contact me.

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