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Playing for the Pleasure of Winning

#1

Howdy

Being retired and living close to Atlantic City can make for a lethal
combination. After all "Gaming" is only addictive if you try to stop. I frequented
the casinos 266 times in 2007. Hey ..it keeps me off the street.

Playing 9/6 JoB at the .25 level guarantees that I can play safely for the
next millennium. Most sessions naturally are loosing ones. Sometimes, however,
I will start off loosing and make a seemingly miraculous comeback and end up
with a winning session. The other scenario which is when I start off
winning and stay ahead the whole time.

Most satisfying for me is the "comeback" regardless of the money involved.
What gives you the most pleasure or do you have no preference as long as you
are victorious?

Grumpy

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#2

By your own admission, you play several hundred hours/year. So what's
the difference, really, if you are ahead or behind at the end of a
given day/session? Does it really matter one way or the other?

The division of time is arbitrary. If you WILL play again some time in
the future, then it doesn't really matter whether that next hand you
play is three days, three months, or three seconds from now, does it?

It's all one long session, and then you die.

#3

tralfamidorgooglycrackers wrote:

The division of time is arbitrary. If you WILL play again some time in
the future, then it doesn't really matter whether that next hand you
play is three days, three months, or three seconds from now, does it?

No, except that it wastes time by artificially waiting to play the
next hand due to whatever "system" one is playing. I've heard that
"quitting while you're ahead" is the key to winning at gambling. But
this compartmentalizing of one's results into "sessions" is all in our
minds, not in the minds of the machines. The "pleasure of gambling"
is based on the illusion that there is meaning to short term results.
It doesn't seem fair that seeing things as they are takes all the
"fun" out of it.