Originally Posted by
tomcowley
Books have offered +EV sports promotions, to where literally picking every game with a coin is +EV (I actually 5x'd my sports roll on one of these early on in my career). Is it wrong to bot those plays in too? Of course not. Thankfully the book had good RR options so I didn't have to bother.
The problem with stuff like that, and with promotions in general, is that books are schizophrenic about what they want. They want to offer "+EV games" as marketing, or they do it because they're too stupid to realize they're doing it, but they only want idiots who can't win at them, or will degen off their money 100% if they do win, to be the ones playing them. When books get all up in arms over "bonus hunters" and the like (not gnomers, just people who legitimately sign up once, win at a +EV bonus offer, and try to cash out right when they've finished rollover), there's simply no reasonable response but to laugh at them for being complete morons. If you offer a +EV opportunity, expect people to take it. If you can't manage the number of hunters*+EV with the degree of morons you attract, that is YOUR problem. Don't whine about it and try to steal money.
It's really similar in principle to people trying to count blackjack. Casinos want to offer 3:2, and they don't want to waste time shuffling more (which they could do to kill penetration), but they don't want to get taken, so they take measures to profile people quickly. But, you know, they actually PAY THE PEOPLE as they're booting them. If a book is giving away money, like you say 5d is, they either need to 1) not care and continue to give away money, 2) stop giving away money, 3) profile people fast enough, pay them, and boot them. Jacking winners is an absolutely ridiculous solution.