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twovests OP wrote

Yeah, that's another issue. I was looking at this as "their business model is to lose money to get people hooked, but if I don't get hooked, I'm just taking money from an evil business."

But that ~$200 loss is subsidized by the people who do get hooked. The fact that they offer $200 in bonus bets means they're expecting to extract at least $200 from every person who takes the bet to break even, which is a mind-boggling amount to spend to gamble.

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twovests wrote

There's something called a rainbow table which is used for hacking. The idea is to save all the password hashes you crack, to reuse later.

Luckily, Postmill salts password hashes. Even in the event of a breach, a rainbow table could not be used on them.

(That said, if your password is weak, it'll still be easy to crack)

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flabberghaster wrote

I think you should not give these casinos one red cent, you're not gonna beat the house. Everyone who gambles thinks they might, and if they were right, there would be no casinos.

If you gamble, go in expecting to lose. If you're doing it for fun, then have fun. But you're giving money to some of the worst and most rapaciously exploitative businesses in America.

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hollyhoppet wrote (edited )

This is literally how professional gamblers do their thing lol. One of the strategies is to drift from "free money" deal to "free money" deal and take advantage of it without falling for the addiction trap. The thing is you only get those promos once per place. If you're going to do it read the terms of service very carefully to make sure there isn't a catch.

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