Gambling

I sometimes feel like my life is just one big gambling trip. Of course, I'm not very lucky, so that's not necessarily a good thing. For instance, allow me to extrapolate using a previous Roulette experience as my evidence.

"Oh look, that wheel has gone black 8 times in a row. I'm going to bet red."

Black

"Oh look, that wheel has gone black 9 times in a row. I'm going to bet red."

Black

"Oh look, that wheel has gone black 10 times in a row. I'm going to bet red."

Black

"Oh look, that wheel has gone black 11 times in a row. I'm going to bet red."

Black

"Oh look, that wheel has gone black 12 times in a row. I'm going to bet red."

Black

"Oh look, that wheel has gone black 13 times in a row. I'm going to bet red."

Black

"Ok, that wheel has gone black 14 times in a row. I'm going to bet black this time."

Red

"Oh look, I'm broke."

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Here are some interesting gambling quotes I happened upon:


The eternal poker pessimist, like compulsive gambler wants to lose. Losing makes him happy, confirming as it does a wide range of his most deeply held beliefs: that life is a bum rap, that his true qualities will never be appreciated by a cruelly misguided world, that he is generally undervalued and misunderstood. He will go on cheerfully defying the odds under the endearing delusion that there is more to him than meets the eye.

Anthony Holden / Big Deal /1990

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Winners tell funny stories, and losers yell: Deal, dealer, deal!

Poker saying

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Losers exaggerate. That’s because they are not trying to convey what really happened so much as how bad they feel.

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What do you do, when you are pushing your luck beyond its limits? You must behave like a good philosopher and ask what axiom you are acting under. If the axiom which you are acting under is not designed to make you money, you may find out that your real objective at the end of the game is something else . You may be trying to prove yourself beloved of God. U must then ask yourself if - financially and emotionally- you can afford the potential rejection.

D. Mamet Things i have learned Playing poker on the hill (1986)