Jeeps:
Different strokes, I guess. I HATE being at the $5 level. I can (and did) blow up a couple of month's profits in a few hours. I was relieved as hell to get my quad and get the hell out. You sound like son when he tells me that a roller coaster won't be any fun unless it makes my ears bleed.
John
---- whitejeeps <whitejeeps@yahoo.com> wrote:
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John,
Gambling is only "fun" when it hurts to lose. What if you went down
to a nickle play. How much fun would that be?Cheers...
.
.--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, John Kelly <lodestone@...> wrote:
>
> Right, Harry. I've gone up a bit in denomination dozens of times
with quad-bonus coupons, and each time, that little voice in the
back of my head whispers "NOW would certainly be to worst possible
time for a quad-drought". Well, it finally happened that way. Just
sharing the joy, and a cautionary tale for the kids out there. Be
afraid. Be very afraid.
>
> > Maybe not "almost nil", but for 4 hours (say 4K hands) you're
looking
> > at a 1 in 10,000 prospect of not hitting. Put 10,000 other
souls in
> > the seats next you and you're the odd man out (hypothetically ...
> > well, maybe not that "odd man" part).
> >
> > But I never sensed you felt that you met with a fate that was
entirely
> > out of bounds relative to the odds you perceived up front -- just
> > frustrated at not hitting what felt like a "sure thing" (as most
of us
> > would have been).
> >
> > - H.
> >
>