The Setting Nobody Reads as a Setting
Speed feels like a matter of taste, in the way that a music volume is. It is presented that way — a small toggle, no warning, no explanation — and the fastest option is usually the default and the busiest room. Nothing about the interface suggests that the choice multiplies the cost of an evening by ten, and there is no reason for the interface to mention it.
This is also the clearest example of something genuinely under your control in a game where the widely marketed controls are not. You cannot influence a digit. You can decide how many digits your money passes through in an hour.
The Comparison Worth Running
Play a hundred rounds at five minutes and a hundred at thirty seconds, at the same stake, and compare what each session cost and how long it took. The odds were identical; the experience and the total staked were not. It is the only experiment in this game that reliably changes behaviour afterwards.
The three levers that genuinely affect the cost of a session are set out on the practical page, and the market overview is on the home page.