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Push (casino wagers)

A push is a wager that ends with the stake returned and no profit or loss on either side. In an expected-value calculation its net contribution is zero. Whether pushed bets are counted in the total being divided, however, can change the published percentage for a game whose rules have not changed at all.


Consider 100 one-dollar bets. Twenty of them push and the group loses $2 overall. Divide by every dollar placed and the cost reads 2%. Divide only by the $80 that was actually decided and the same $2 becomes 2.5%. Both numbers are right; they just use different bases, and setting a per-decision figure for one game beside a per-bet figure for another will exaggerate or hide a real gap.


Pushes also stretch a session. Returned stakes add rounds without net movement, yet they do nothing to soften the disadvantage on the bets that settle.


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