The only skill game to my knowledge where the house becomes affected by winning players are sports books.
Are you sure about that? Aren't the odds still changing based on users bets until final confirmation that is released when bets are closed. Final odds are set in the way that it does not matter who will win. Payout is always set to be equal to (income from losers - expected house profit)/number of winners.
That's amusement park not casino where big money are involved. Casino will never open a game with unknown odds (without statistic advantage) other than PVP where their bankroll is not involved.
Positive. I'm very involved with the professionally gambling scene. The hardest part of sports betting for professional sports bettors is simply getting action. What you are referring to is an ideal situation where the book can hedge and align things appropriately but the actual world is much messier than this. Sportsbooks will have losing days all of the time.
https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/won-sportsbooks-banning-smart-money/story?id=57307967(Random article I pulled but if you are interested you could search for many examples of this)
Skill based games are not really that much easy in any case anyway, no skill based game can be mastered under a minute, however there is a huge difference between mastering something like that and also keeping the bots away. I have literally seen poker bots that doesn't even do that much stuff other than commands it's given, like fold when it has a bad hand, check when it has a decent hand, call or raise when it has super hands etc etc.
It means it really doesn't mean much for human players who can't even bluff because it is literally a bot they are playing against. So a developers job becomes to make sure players can't play something as simple as dice but also won't be playing against bots who would destroy them in almost every turn unless they are masters of the game.
Come on, skill-based games in online casinos are not hard at all. I would even say that it is pure psychological manipulation and skill that you need, even if you do not understand statistics anymore. Sometimes especially like in poker, you only need to understand the mind of the other players at the table.
Poker bots can never do this. They only do statistics, and never take advantage when another player always calls all in or whatever. Bots do not always win.
It's more nuanced than this. You are completely correct that bots do not always win but the question is not whether they win or lose in the short term but more a question of whether or not they are strategically superior to their human opponents.
With poker in particular, it is getting more run over each year with an infestation of better and more effective bots in games. While poker in it's entirely is not solved yet, that day is coming. It also depends a lot on the variant of poker one is referring to.
Our goal (which may not be realistic) is to offer skill games that do not suffer from this problem yet, ideally.
Skill based games are not really that much easy in any case anyway, no skill based game can be mastered under a minute, however there is a huge difference between mastering something like that and also keeping the bots away. I have literally seen poker bots that doesn't even do that much stuff other than commands it's given, like fold when it has a bad hand, check when it has a decent hand, call or raise when it has super hands etc etc.
It means it really doesn't mean much for human players who can't even bluff because it is literally a bot they are playing against. So a developers job becomes to make sure players can't play something as simple as dice but also won't be playing against bots who would destroy them in almost every turn unless they are masters of the game.
With the current technology I believe it is really easy to put some hard bot to play because it can copy players attitude and how the game is played. But the point is, casino wont do that because what they aim is players against players site not players vs bot site, they will use bot when it has less players. And even if it is players vs bot then I do not think it is easy and cheap to have that bot implemented on the site though
Anyway does mintdice even have poker games? And I do not think there is any skill based games to play as well, all of their game is just some normal games against the house edge
We do not have poker games and they are nowhere on our roadmap. This would be a very long run product if we were to even build one. The #1 consideration for us launching a poker product would be whether or not we have a sufficient player base to support games, which I would want to be conservatively on the large side of, which we are nowhere close to at the moment.
Aside from that, I would want it to provide new value to players. If we simply launched a basic poker product, I don't think there would be a compelling reason to play on MintDice versus any other website. Especially when established websites can frequently offer $1M guarantees on tournaments that we could not come anywhere close to matching. And spending that much energy on something like that doesn't really make sense unless there's a good amount of reasoning to back it up.
