In Las Vegas, it is referred to as theoretical loss and is what your comps are based on from a customer point of view. One factor I would add to list of risks is the whale factor. That is, somebody with a large bankroll will come in and take a significiant chunk of the house's capital. This is a good article and should be read by those interested in investing.
This has certainly happened many times before. The most famous of which was Just-Dice's nakowa incident where a whale (nakowa) had a massive winning streak that destroyed investors' funds and turned the site's profits negative for weeks-months.
Why shouldn't you invest? They are largely unregulated and the owner can walk away with your money at will.
And this has happened many times too. Dice.ninja was one example. Unfortunately, after dooglus shut down Just-Dice, he began promoting Dicebitco.in which ran into a few problems and a lot of investors lost their funds. After that, he began promoting dice.ninja. Because of this, lots of people invested there too and then the site owners ran away with 2,000+ BTC. Dooglus is good guy but I wouldn't trust any site he promotes that isn't owned by him.
Very true. Unfortunately the two persons I fully trust in the bitcoin gambling industry don't want my bitcoin investment. Stunna is rich enough to support the bankroll and don't want to share his profit with us, while dooglus has decided not to deal with bitcoin directly.
That is certainly one reason why Stunna doesn't allow investments but he also said that he would rather not have the responsibility of looking after other people's money (and the stress that comes with it) as well as the fact that it can't be insured against losses, hacks, theft, etc. and there is no provably fair system to accept investments:
Stunna, why not allow people to invest?
While I have no doubt that an investment option would be wildly popular, I simply don't feel comfortable allowing it. Right now we have enough more than enough coins to insure all balances but not enough that I could safely insure all potential investments. The amount of trust required for such an investment scheme to work is incredible, given that an operator could just play and win against his own site without anyone having the slightest clue. Bitcoin is already such an incredible investment just sitting in a wallet, I firmly believe that the majority of bitcoin company/site related investments are -EV and unsustainable.
Just-dice accepts investments and i think its somewhat safe, would someone confirm?
They recently reopened after a long break and they do accept investments now but only in the form of an altcoin called CLAMs.
Aren't a few of the Casino listed on what is it Haverford.
Havelock?