Gambling: The Attraction and Urban Legends
Ξ August 26th, 2008 | → | ∇ Gambling |
Gambling’s most peculiar attribute is the fact that it is generally - if not always - an activity where all the odds are against you. To a player, it always seems as if he has an Everest to climb. As a mountaineer stands at the foot of the imposing Mountain looking up at the top of the world, so does a player stare at the imaginable small odds and uphill battle he is about to face when standing, for example, in front of the roulette table.
The odds, the possible betting choices, the different strategies available all designed to better the odds of actually breaking the bank, even if the likelihood only fractionally improves, that player is no better off than the adventurer at the foot of that mountain. As he climbs up the mountain, braving everything nature can through at him, so to does the player fight his way through hand after hand, turn after turn. The odds are against them, then why do it? There must surely be easier and less riskier ways to earn a buck.
