Players come together at a table and try to take each other’s money, the casino just facilitates the game by providing the table, chairs, chips, cards, and dealers. Poker, however, is a game that is not played against the house. It’s clear that when the house wins they are taking the player’s money, and when players win they get the casino’s money. Slots and table games have something in common: players are betting against the house. Table games constantly take chips from players as sevens are rolled and 18s are beaten.
Seemingly endless rows of slot machines net millions of dollars per year one penny at a time. It doesn’t take much research to figure out that casinos make money hand over fist.
