The late Doyle Brunson is credited with calling the game of poker “a hard way to make an easy living,” and it’s a statement that applies to any form of gambling where it’s possible, by skill or by scheme, to come out ahead in the long run.
Nowadays, everyone knows about the existence of professional poker players, professional sports bettors, and professional blackjack card counters — there have been mainstream movies made about all of those. More recently, stories have spread about casino “advantage players,” folks who can spot progressive-style slot machines in a positive-expected-value state or who grind promotions with a discipline that allows them to come out ahead.
These are hard ways to make an easy living. They come with risk, but, as another cliché goes, it beats digging ditches.
Now, however, a group of advantage players — or APs — might just have found an easy way to make an easy living, in a vertical that many in the gaming world didn’t even know existed until a year or two ago.
Yes, the “pros” are out there beating the sweepstakes casinos.