Lotteries and prizes from casinos

From History So, when Arkady and I came to Yenisei, we found in its halls a whole galaxy of the best masters, ready to use any mistake of the casino management to fill their wallets. Goodness! Who didn’t we meet there! Approaching the shift manager Petr, whom Arkady still remembered as a dealer in Gosudarina and who forever had the nickname “king of overtime”, pointing to the poker pit, we asked: - Are you aware that Slava and Eric play here? The answer that followed discouraged even me: - Who are they? It’s amazing how you can be so uninterested in the world in which you work and not know the face of the owner of the establishment next to you and one of the co-owners of the “Old World”? If you, friends, don’t know the “kings”, then what can we say about the retinue? When someone from the top management of neighboring establishments or the owner himself came to the "Old World", the shift manager immediately received information about it, because opposite the name in the guest card there was a note: "Urgently inform the manager!" After all, these people do not suffer from altruism, they are not at all going to engage in charity, throwing money left and right. On the contrary, their appearance can at best be justified by sporting curiosity and a desire to see what the new establishment is like, what kind of people work there, study the "menu" of games and try to find shortcomings in it, which will later become starting points in the big game. And if the number of such people goes off the scale per square meter, then this is the first sign of professional failure of the management team, which made a miscalculation, which players greedy for managerial mistakes have already begun to take advantage of with pleasure. One of such "technical" errors was the incorrect organization of incentive lotteries aimed at attracting more guests. It's not that people didn't come, they did, both out of curiosity and for the valuable prizes that were announced. But they couldn't win anything in the "suckers' contest." Everything went to professional Moscow players. It's elementary that the rules for issuing lottery tickets in a large casino should differ from the rules by which small establishments operate. After all, if you want to do a favor to the "Kuzmiches," separate them from the "masters of the game" and other VIP players. (Professional players never play for small stakes. Simply because the error in the rules they find is extremely small in percentage terms and insignificant unless conditions are created for its manifestation. And it is revealed only with a large stake, giving the player a minimal advantage over the casino, an advantage that is imperceptible when playing with small and medium jackpots.) That's why people sat, hatched their lottery tickets, playing in the zeros from the point of view of mathematics and the result of the game. Because a big bet brings incomparably more tickets. Such perseverance was generously compensated by luxurious prizes, with which any casino tries to surprise and lure players at the very beginning. People are not blind! If during lotteries only the order of the "prize winners" changes, and others cannot even approach the podium, then something is fishy here. And a doubt creeps into the player's soul: are all the prizes being given to their own dummy? No, no and no! In no way!!! Not a single Moscow establishment, valuing its reputation, could take such a step in the mid-2000s. The fact that the winners were constant only testified to the illiteracy and short-sightedness of senior management in terms of preparing and organizing lotteries.