Hi everyone.
Rookie opinion: the lottery,
roulette, lotto, pool, etc. they are games in which chance is basically the most important and only the organizing company always wins from start to finish, while only a lucky player "catches" something once in a while. Statistically and mathematically, these games are designed so that the player always loses in the long run.
I give you an example: many years ago at the Monte Carlo casino there was a player at a roulette table who was making enough money, so one of the supervisors called the manager and asked if he took it out.
The manager asked: "the player is standing or sitting"? , "sitting" the employee replied. Ok, then offer him free drinks and let him play.
Poker may initially seem like a game of chance in the short term (and for beginners like me sometimes it seems) but in reality it is a game that has a learning curve that is concatenated with the winnings, and chance, in the As time passes, it will be less important. On the other hand, the company that organizes earns money, of course, its logical commission (rake), but it is not the only one that wins (good players do it too).
Best regards from Buenos Aires.