[Bozeman]

"The thing that amazes me is that people pay their hard earned money to play these and they're complete idiots."

For much of the world, $11 does not count as HARD EARNED money, and for some it hardly counts as money. This is not much to pay for entertainment, especially when you consider the bad beats and hot runs they'll deliver will give them higher than -$11 EV.

Now why some of this persists at the $109 level, I have more trouble understanding,
Craig