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yndoendo | 8 hours ago

The movie _Casino_ highlights how insider information was and is used to improve the house odds [0].

Information about a players wellbeing and their life goes a long way. Example, they would pay paper boys to talk to coaches to find out non public information. Such as if a player of the team is going through relationship problems.

[0] https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/524-casino

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estearum|8 hours ago

All of which is significantly harder than putting up a gigantic billboard that says "Have insider knowledge on an important event? Place a bet here using crypto!"

Every important event in the world has dozens if not hundreds of people "in the know" before it happens. Not everyone has paper boys, chatty coaches, or the time/energy required to connect all those dots.

The entire flow insider information is reversed from "go out and look for it" to "invite it in anonymously"

Barbing|8 hours ago

Scorsese and De Niro, looking forward to watching.

dylan604|5 hours ago

Was the ", again" left off, or is this going to be the first time you've seen the movie when you do watch it? I know new people are born every day, but Casino is one of those movies that I'd have expected any one old enough to be reading this board to have seen already. This is no judgment on anyone for not seeing it. Just a comment on my skewed view of the world I guess