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Originally Posted by SageDonkey
Somebody playing a 10c/25C NLHE cash game or a €5 MTT can within a few seconds gamble 100s or even 1000s of Euros on a casino game.
One of the fallacies of the poker vs casino discussion is that chance of a player winning at poker is ALWAYS greater than the chance of a player winning at casino.
Ask yourself this next time you set foot in a casino; do you think a new / casual player with $100 will see that money last longer at the roulette table or at the poker table?
Many answer this by saying "well you CAN have a positive expectation at poker and you CAN'T at roulette", therefore poker is better for all players ... this is of course 100% correct
in theory, but for the new player or recreational player the reality is frequently very different.
I work in poker, love poker, play poker, and read and write about poker constantly; but if I took a friend to my local casino who had never gambled before, I'd tell them they'd have a much better time at the roulette table with $100 than sitting at a $1/2 game with $100*.
The above is the freaking reason that limit poker was invented; as the game became more popular in casinos they needed a way to stop the local regs fleecing the casuals in a couple of hands, and get more hours per dollar gambled. Whoever came up with that idea, I salute their forward thinking back in the day.
(*Of course I'd tell them to get a poker book or two, watch some online games, play some friendly home games, and get a bit familiar with poker, and THEN sit at $1/$2 and gamble it up.)