- Low barriers to entry: all you need is ID and cash
- Relatively meritoratic: a test of knowlegde, nerve and rationality
- Financial freedom: cash-based, independent of banks and digital money
- Technological freedom: no private computers or smartphones
- Untaxed: you keep everything you win and it doesn't feed the state
- Compressed profit window: the chance to make a large and almost instant gain
- Psychological release: the relief and surge of power that comes with a win
