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Old 09-11-2012, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord View Post
People should hang out at a high minimum dice table.

You will find people there -- some of them successful businessman -- others God only knows how they found their money ... and they will say some of the most irrational stuff.

They think certain shooters can control the dice. They think certain shooters are better than other shooters. They talk about stuff like "hot dice" and "cold dice"

They seem to be oblivious to the randomness of it all.

Obviously there is a little more skill involved when it comes to the selection of yearlings than simply throwing dice ... but not a whole lot more.

Every dice shooter likes to talk about their 'big rolls' when they made 20 straight points, buckshot about half of them, and had floods of people coming to the table just to watch them shoot. They don't like to talk about their lifetime ROI throwing dice or the crippling losing streaks when they couldn't make a single pass 20 times in a row despite having almost a 50/50 chance each time.
I usually hear some of the most humorous comments at the roulette wheel. After black or red has come up 3-4 times in a row, somebody will declare that the other color is 'due'. I would love to ask them.....why?....... and then hear their explanation. Each spin is a unique event and has nothing to do with the spin prior. How many people have thought they could just double their money by sticking with a color only to have it lose 5-6 (or more) times in a row and then leave muttering about their misfortune. It's always amazing to me how many gamblers don't understand odds and probabilities.
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