Re: If a poker site were to offer insurance on hands backed by the hou
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Don't get me wrong I don't want the sites taking more money from the fish, but why would the time delay be so bad? Give them like 5 seconds or however long they give people to show a winning hand.
"Take insurance for $xxx?"
Yes - No
What's tough about that?
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I'm not going to try to explain it in detail here, but let me just say that your mind would be boggled by what 1 second can generate.
In addition to the time delay, there were several other things talked about that stopped it. Like the fact that a site would all of the sudden have an interest in the outcome of the hand.
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why would they have an interest in the outcome? either:
A. the player takes the insurance, giving the house a certain percentage
B. the player doesn't, and the remaining cards are dealt, giving the house the rake they'd get anyways
how would the remaining cards be influenced?
the only thing I would see is that the house would want more coolers so that people would take insurance more often
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