Gambling

[stokastikos]

Most forms of gambling get carefully set up by the organisers to minimise the effects of parapsychology so excercise extreeme caution. I can offer two anecdotes to illustrate the difficulties involved. Some friends tried the gantzfeldt horse race prediction idea after Targ and Puthoff, and as I expected they got false positives, ie they correctly scried target objects in the bank but they did not correspond to actual winners, I suspect that they corresponded to the most probable winner at the time of the divination only. In another case someone tried to enchant the quantum based ERNIE machine that used to run the premium bond prizedraw at Lytham St Annes. For a period of months he got numbers comming up very close to his own but with just one or two digits just slightly off. Then an article appeared in the papers saying that the machine had to be overhauled because of apparent malfunction!
If you watch the UK lottery draw they stirr the balls until the last possible moment and then an arm pulls one out in a flash, personally i wouldn't waste a pound trying to influence or divine a system like that.
Poker, as I mentioned in Orange Magic, provides a different ball game, and not one which I reccomend playing with either friends or enemies, the online version has the drawback that one has far less of a proximity to ones opponents.
I gamble a couple of million dollars a year with the expectation of getting it all back plus a percentage, I prefer an investment scenario where I can do quite a lot to control the odds and the risks. For excitement I prefer to surf.
stokastikos

[Isis]

For excitement I prefer to surf.

Lots of freebies out there that blow your mind !!!!
Your bookmarks tell everything about you.


Research has shown that gamblers do gamble
because they do loose.
That seems the thrill that gets the adrenaline going
and creates the addiction.
Rational argument will not fight that.
Sometimes when you loose you win.


 

 
 

 

[anosognosia]

I gamble a couple of million dollars a year with the expectation of getting it all back plus a percentage, I prefer an investment scenario where I can do quite a lot to control the odds and the risks.

I agree. Other than the occaisional nickle ante game which amounts to good conversation I have bought exactly one lottery ticket in my life (first Texas lottery, first ticket, as a collectors item, didn't scratch it off to keep it's value). I fly through Los Vegas often and put one dollar in a machine once, this one, in fact, to see where it went (answer: nowhere). I detest lotteries in general as a tax on the poor and ignorant, but don't mind gambling at all, as long as I get to own the casino.

In fact, that would be my only sincere interest in magic and gambling. Enchantments to make my casino busy and keep away trouble.

For excitement I prefer to surf.

We don't surf here on the high, dry Plateau of Leng, but I can't imagine that even a royal flush and a million dollar pot can hold a candle to a fast trip through a Hawaiian pipeline.

[Defenestrator]

Most forms of gambling get carefully set up by the organisers to minimise the effects of parapsychology so excercise extreeme caution.

You mean these big casino owners actually think about things like parapsychology when they're setting things up? I guess that means they take it at least somewhat seriously. My (stereotypical) image of those guys is ultimate hard-headed, hard-boiled, and rational.

[Isis]

hard-boiled

Hardboiled like an egg
eggnogg nodding
turnover omelet
shuffle the souffle

Sorry I am just back from the beach...
 

[Defenestrator]

hard-boiled

Hardboiled like an egg
eggnogg nodding
turnover omelet
shuffle the souffle

Sorry I am just back from the beach...
 

...and I'm hungry now.

[flibbertigibbet]

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You mean these big casino owners actually think about things like parapsychology when they're setting things up? I guess that means they take it at least somewhat seriously. My (stereotypical) image of those guys is ultimate hard-headed, hard-boiled, and rational.

i call that practical, which fits my view of mobsters, err i mean casion owners.