Video poker exists.
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Eiri@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I don’t get slot machines. They’re not even slightly fun.
I wish casinos had fun games with small bets. Like, I don’t know, poker where you can play several hands with 20 dollars.
But as it stands, I don’t think I’ll ever visit a casino again. It’s either boring slots or you need to be rich to play the “real” games.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t need to go to a casino for that, just gotta boot up red dead
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Or Fallout NV. Though if you have 7 luck or more you are garunteed to win.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i never played caravan. there real poker in the casinos?
Eiri@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I guess, but at that point I can do that in your average JRPG or something. I feel like it would be more fun with people. Unless they’re paying the Texas game with all the cards in the middle. That one is complicated and you only have two cards of yours and I really don’t have fun with it.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Imagine you are a boomer who has had a near infinite money glitch but its only ever been cost of living plus 10%. You always have that spare cash but it doesnt get above 10% extra. Its a boring amount and you want to be actually rich.
Now you could squirrel it away and actually save that money but thats boring when what you could do is gamble it every month cause maybe it will make you have a huge amount of money (which it wont) out of just pure luck and you didnt need it cause your basic costs were always covered so you never thought of saving it or giving it to anyone else other than corpos.
Now add people who also know they wil never have the money glitch who want to be as secure and see boomers making a small return acting like it was worth it and they decide if they gamble the few dollars they have they will finally get a return that saves them from poverty (it wont).
Congrats you now understand it hopefully.
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think so, but unfortunately I am all the more disgusted
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can play micro stakes online for regular poker. It’s basically what you said, $20 will go a long way. As for live play, the smallest stakes I’ve seen is like $.050/$1 at the linq in Vegas where you could probably get by buying in for $50, but would be better off with $100. That was before Covid, and I haven’t tried playing there since. It may no longer be a thing.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Slots are just reusable lotto scratchers.
Blackjack is probably your game because it’s simple and I’ve seen minimum hands as low as $3.
Just don’t do what I did and convince yourself that you’re good at it because you did well in New Vegas.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Poker isn’t really a fun game. Try playing it without money. It gets boring super fast.
If a game needs money to be fun, it’s not a fun game.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
At least poker is fair. Funny enough fair gambling is considered illegal and immoral for some reason, but slot machines are okay, even as they are designed in every way to victimize dumb people.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Gotta get the money from the poors somehow, and someone with skill might win it back if its allowed to be skill based.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I mean even if it were just better odds it would be worth it maybe. If I were regulating gambling, I would make sure that Casinos had to pay out at least 90% of what they brought in and distributed widely with some mathematical function that approximates a bell curve.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’ve played it once in the past. Just the normal poker with five cards in your hand and you get two rounds of changing cards.
It was fun.
I lost 2 imaginary dollars.
lemonwood@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Play Balatro instead. It’s fun without money and has all the poker hands.
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It gets boring because it’s a game of human interaction that requires actual stakes.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s boring because the only thing making it interesting is the prospect of making money off it. It’s like work, only that if you suck at it you pay instead of getting paid.