Stating that "EVERYBODY" loses in the long run is just pure rubbish. For there to be losers, there must be winners, right? And, I might be saying this bluntly, but casinos win in the long run because the odds are in their favor. Hello! Anybody home? What's that mean? It means that those people who wager on large volumes of events with favorable odds are going to win according to the law of very large numbers....Don't wager volumes on events with a negative expected value because you will lose in the long run! Wager on events where the expected return is positive....play like the casino, not against the casino!
statistically speaking everybody loses in the long run and the only handful of people who win are just lucky, that's all. you can't make a rule out of the exceptions. the general idea is that when you are gambling especially in games with house edge you are in a disadvantage so in the long run the house is winning over you.
Statistically speaking its impossible for EVERYBODY to lose in the long run because that would mean money is just disappearing into thin air. The house wins in the long run, anybody who bets on the house wins in the long run, and anybody who only bets with positive expected value wins in the long run, statistically. Only those players who play against the odds lose in the long run. That's my point, one who bets against the house will, more than likely, lose in the long run, so
don't bet against the house! Learn how to recognize a good bet from a bad bet and match the wager appropriately to insure a positive expected value....That's all. It's not an exception to the rule, it is the rule.
For example, you and I flipping coins. You pay me 1.1 for heads and I pay you 0.9 for tails. I'm going to win in the long run because I have better odds. You wont take that bet because you recognize it's a bad bet. If I somehow convince you to take that bet, then that's your bad for not recognizing it and my good for taking it.
Well, that's what people do when they play the dice sites or house edge games. They're paying 1.0002 for a 0.9998 return (illustrative figures--not exact amounts) so they're going to lose in the long run if they keep playing. They should recognize that prop as a bad bet and find a game where they could realize returns that are more in their favor....like poker! It's just math.