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I'd imagine the establishment would figure out ways to make life moderately annoying for people who they saw sitting on their machines all day doing the skilled play. Even in systems where +EV play is ostensibly just part of a closed loop you still don't want to have the juiciest bits of the cycle being consistently harvested by the same annoying cheapskates who are never going to actually 'buy anything'.
You get a lot of complaints on both sides with this in land Casinos with the practice known as Sour Rooting. Sour Rooting is essentially watching a game with a 'guaranteed accumulator jackpot (Losses over time accumulate on the machine and at say $10k of accumulated losses the machine is programmed to be more and more likely to pay out a large jackpot' and only playing when the accumulated amount on the machine is high enough to make spinning high enough value. Professional Gamblers say 'the machine was going to pay out regardless, why does it matter if I happen to maximize my chances of getting that jackpot' and Casinos broadly say 'That machine was fueled by idiot rubes and we'd rather the jackpot stays inside the idiot rube ecosystem' then endless wailing both ways
I think the point of it is just to discourage it in the first place. It's a difficult enough game that only moderately intelligent and competent people are going to be able to complete the skilled play, and moderately intelligent and competent people aren't going to voluntarily work at this for $5.50 an hour. The vast majority of establishments won't need to do anything because nobody is going to get good at it and sit there consistently doing it without getting bored. The payoff is just too tiny for anyone to care.
Yeah. I mean it's probably a letter of the law thing where a +EV option needs to be available but with very loose wording on what it entails so somebody set out to create something that's time-consuming and difficult to serialize.
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