[itsoktocry]

>She turned, shook her head and said "I know what they've spent... its not a lot." and proceeded into a mini tirade against gambling, which she promptly stopped when a customer entered the store. Its profitiable.

Curious, but was this surprising to you? These games are literally all designed to take in money and pay out a portion of it. They have to be profitable.

[acomjean]

I was surprised the payouts from a small convenience store were so high. And the spending were so high. I'm a very infrequent gambler..

When I was at IBM one of the mathemeticians had a bumper sticker on his office door. “the lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math.” or some such thing. I took it to heart.