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You drop your coin in and pull the handle, the wheels spin and finally settle, and sadly you don’t win the jackpot.

But instead of the game being over, an icon appears and says “click to win a prize”.

So you click the icon, and the casino disappears in a wash of colors and you feel like somehow hitting the icon made you into a character in a video game that is literally being transported to a brand new world.

Once the colors stop spinning you find yourself outside and with a pair of six guns, one in each of your hands.

Are there good casino players and bad casino players? Or are all the games just dumb luck with no way to distinguish a hierarchy among those who plod the casino playing field and those who run through it? Is Jimbo (who plays loads of money on all the Crazy Crapper bets such as the Any Seven and the Hardways) as smart a player as Joe (who plays small on the Pass Line with maximum odds)?

Considering the Internet has been mainstream for around 20 years, US presidential races have been going on for 226 years and wagering has been commonplace since Eve hedged her bets on an apple in the Garden of Eden, it’s not surprising online political betting has exploded in popularity across the cyber universe in the last few years. In fact, it’s actually more surprising that it took this long.

1. AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED, “GAME THEORY” IS THE MATHEMATICAL STUDY OF GAMES

But not just any type of game. Game theory concerns only games of strategy between two or more competing players. Usually there’s a clear set of rules that define the possible moves that each player can make at each juncture in the game and a resulting score for each player at the end of each play of the game.