It took me awhile a very short while to tumble to the fact that the "house" takes a cut of your winnings at the tables, I don't quite get the logic of that, after all it's faux money.....maybe it's keeping tract of deductions for the Faux IRS......no cut is taken on "free chips" but a cut is taken from any roulette wins......like I said don't get the point of it.....but it ain't real money and is what it is...just part of the game.......
(Later in the day)
  Played for close to an hour and didn't win a hand for the first 20 minutes....did walk away when the big stack on the table turned Kamikaze......but I do need to apologize to A/K..won a decent hand with it.....of course the fact that the flop had two more aces in it helped.....didn't make a ton but left with my buy-in plus a bit.......