Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Issue: 61   Editor: Nyxxinator


The Ideal Bet Range Fanacasecul
You hear about it all the time; people complaining that the max bets are too low, casino owners advertising that their casino has a high max bet, casino owners even getting show because their max bet is ‘too low’. But what exactly is ‘too low’? With a max bet of $999,999,999 people are encouraged to gamble all their money away, and this in turn generates beggars and even scammers. And no one likes THOSE guys! Whereas a max bet of $2,500 is low enough to justify killing a casino owner who, at the end of the day, doesn’t want to lose their casino. I think it’s time to work out a compromise between casino owners and addicted gamblers.

I decided to pick a casino owner at random from the States page. I asked Earendil what his idea of the ideal minimum and maximum bet should be. He responded with “I think there shouldn't be a maximum, just unlimited. That keeps gambling nice. Also no minimum. Some holders of casino's only have them to sell them for more points. They don't want to loose the casino in the mean time.” I also asked what they thought of being shot for their casino having such a low max bet and he said “I don't understand the shooters. I think it's a better idea, for them, to buy the casino's themselves and then have a high max. If they do that enough times, other people will follow, because they need to make money with their casino's. And on the other site, shooting without a warning is always stupid. If you think the maxes are too low, bootmail the holder first.”

Next, I chose someone who would be willing to shoot a casino owner due to a low max bet and I asked them for their opinion on the ideal maximum and minimum bet. A player, who would prefer to stay anonymous, said a good max bet would be “The ideal max bet is obviously unlimited for the player.” and the lowest bet should be “And the general minimum bet is as low as it goes in general...nobody has a problem with people who lower their max bets while they're offline. Its just when people have a casino for weeks and havnt even changed their max bet to a decent amount. Its pointless them holding a casino so why not make use of it? Most people who do that dont have the resources to shoot back anyway, cause otherwise they'd risk their money on the casino...So at the end of the day its a free casino for you.”. I then asked how they would feel if they were in the casino owner’s shoes. They said “In a casino owners shoes I'd be pissed off...but if they werent noobs they'd know full well they deserved it.”

It seems as though the current condition with the max bets is fine, on the whole. The only advice I can offer to casino owners is that owning a casino and keeping it at a constant low max bet is rather redundant and could get you killed. Watch your back!