No one in this entire thread has even mentioned this!
It would be very hard work to analyze the numbers and find where the house doesn't have an edge.
This has happened before, even with the lottery. Purchasing a certain amount of tickets, if enough money was put in it, statistically returned more money.
The ROI was more than 15%
Here is the article:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/Similarly, if you do hard work in baiting the casinos you can feed off the wasted money of other people. Go in there "to gamble" spend almost no money, try to find a game that returns most of your money, enjoy free services.... Leave
Rinse and repeat at another casino.....
Maybe you can just do math on how to beat their games while drinking free water and enjoying free AC and music and then go on your way.... You saved money on AC and accommodation, you beat the odds.
Basically you have to be a parasite...
Working hard to find out how to cheat also works.... If you could somehow rig the jackpot, that would be very hard work and the ROI would be ludicrous.
Actually I don't think it works like you described. It looks more like a fairy tale which land based casinos want us to believe because they can feel that they are losing their ground to online gambling.
Regarding the story when MIT Students had managed to win $8 Million in a Lottery we must understand that that happened not because they were smart and hardworking but rather because the providers of the Massachusetts’ Cash WinFall were retards. In this particular lottery if the main prizes were unclaimed for a certain period of time, there was a round when they were distributed into lower prize pools, and thus by buying big amounts of tickets for that particular round it was possible to win the money spent by players in the previous rounds. As far as I know nothing like that ever happened since.