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This story reminded me of the skewed distribution of casino and lottery revenue. Viz:

90 percent of casino revenue comes from just 10 percent of customers, according to Foxwoods executive Scott Rider
One sucker accounted for 20 percent of the gambling revenue of Caesars Palace and the Rio for a full year (in 2006)
More than half of [...]

One way to harm a casino:

A good business move on multiple levels.

From news items dates March 17 to March 25:

Douglas Nickerson, a former executive with General Casualty Insurance, was sentenced on March 25 to nearly 4 years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million to feed a gambling addiction.
The former treasurer of a Montana Little League team was sentenced to 30 days in jail for [...]

Be careful who you meet in the casino.

Please come, with weapons, to the Barnes and Noble in Park Slope so I can (a) give a bullet-dodging demo and (b) tell you things and (c) sign things and (d) be anxious for your entertainment.
It’s at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday March 23 at this place here.

A Pennsylvania survey found that people living below the poverty line were far more inclined to try gambling at a new casino in Bethlehem than those who weren’t hungry and desperate. Of people making less than $20,000 a year, 48 percent said they were likely or very likely to test their luck at the Sands [...]

In an article in Centerstage, the entertainment zine of the Chicago Sun-Times, a certain blackjack professional/author argues for playing hard and getting barred in the Indiana toilets before the state Supreme Court strips casinos of the right to exclude skilled players:
Let’s face it: casinos are dumps. And the Northern Indiana dumps take dumpdom to [...]

Canceled playing cards used in real casino play were a classic Vegas souvenir when I was a kid (0 – 26 yrs) but there are so many tables burning through decks two and three shifts daily in so many shitholes in so many states nowadays, their canceled cards get distributed nationally, and the network that [...]

From news items dated March 1 to March 17:

Connie Marie Hanson, 56, was sentenced on March 2 to 55 months in prison for embezzling close to $1 million from disabled veterans for whom she served as fiduciary. Her lawyer said “the loss in this case is directly attributable to her gambling. She took from those [...]

Scott Rider, a Foxwoods VP for customer development, tells Boston’s WBZ TV:
ninety percent of the casino’s business comes from just ten percent of the customers.
This was intended as a boast about high rollers and how they love Foxwoods, but there’s a more significant message: the overwhelming majority of Foxwoods revenue comes from a small group [...]

Notes:

Pechanga: Barring followed an all-night losing session, something close to 20K or even worse than that. I note this only because journalists have been asking, “So, you win money, and then they throw you out?” and the truth is annoyingly different. Casinos (should) consider the expected value of your play, not just the result. (They [...]

Gambling addicts kill themselves a lot of different ways: hanging, shooting, jumping, pills.
Suicide bombings, on the other hand, are mostly committed by terrorists. Though sometimes there are exceptions, if you believe what the Chinese media says.

Larceny? Nah. A self-comp.

but wrong?