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I believe that if a team of gambling consultants, accountants, marketeers, systems analysts and statistisicians proved unequivocally to them that they could increase their profits by 50% if they implemented a neural-net-based odds-updating system without having to ban or limit anyone, they would not only fire them on the spot and ask them to leave the premises, but also ban them from their online sportsbook as well as their land-based betting shops. Their management seems to really believe their own bullshit. The main thing that drives them, I believe, is not merely ensuring their profitability (otherwise, their hand wouldn't be so heavy), but rather a warped, then inverted moral sensibility according to which, value-betting is the ultimate sin (or right up there with arbitrage-betting, anyway) but there's nothing wrong with taking money from some gambling-addicted mug living in a bedsit in Slough who hopes that Citeh will win next weekend's football match against United so he'll have enough money to feed his kids. One would routinely encounter this attitude in Vegas up until about the late '70s but I thought everyone had moved beyond that by now.