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The God of Gambler - 玩命赌博法

I hate gamble, as I have a losing father that left me nothing but a bunch of debts. He is a great man until he indulged in this evil habit.

I love my father like everyone does, if I could have done better to improve my parents lifestyle, I would. Doesn’t matter I need to take may be another couple of years. I admire my mother so much and I promise myself I won’t do anything to hurt her feelings. My mother is the toughest women I have ever seen in the world, for what she has done and her sacrifices towards the family.

Gambling brought nothing but rupture to family relationship. I can still remember way back in secondary school, brother, sisters and I had to hide in the house upon returning from school. We hardly had outdoor activities. Father had left home without a word, and mother had to face all the debtors day by day. We heard life threatening words and foul languages from the money lenders everyday. There was nothing we can do besides helplessly accompany our heart broken mother in bewilderment. That was the darkest era in my life, I believe nothing would be worst than that.

I am glad I had the opportunity to study and graduate oversea, and consequently had a chance to step in casino for the very first time in my life. As I mentioned in the previous blog, I went there for supper, not to gamble. I admit I did spend few ten pounds on the gambling table just to experience the excitement and try to find a way to beat the game. Like others, I lose it all, and then I stop.

Quite a few friends knew I was good in math, so they did design a rather complicated matrix supported with tanglesome theory to ask my opinion. They were willing to pay me if I could come out with a “sure win” strategy. You don’t need complicated matrix to calculate the odds against winning, simple math will do, trust me. Forget what people say about some professional gamblers whose gamble for living, that simply the biggest myth in the world of gambler. Professional gambler only play with each other on a fair and square table, they play against each other, not the casino. They are playing pure psychology game instead of pure probability game like we play in the casino.

Some say you could beat black jack if you have super memory. That is not 100% true. The modern casinos even take that into calculation. Normally the house will shuffle 5 decks of cards before starts. As the game go along the way, when the playing cards getting less, maybe 40% of the total cards depending on the calculation, the house will put in another 5 decks of cards. This action will eliminate the chance of the clients to predict the remaining cards and hence increase the odd of winning. Yes, if you do have very good memory, it helps to increase the odd against winning, but based on mathematical calculation, the chances still favor to the house.

Roulette is another interesting game. If you go and search on internet, there are hundreds of thousands methods to beat the game. None of it works, either mathematically or mechanically. Greatest man ever exist on the planet, Albert Einstein once said: you cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it. If you don’t believe it, feel free to send me an email and tell me your method, I will show you where did you missed. It is too tedious to show it here because it involves too many varieties.

Slot machine? Are you kidding me? You know how to count the odd, right?

In short, you can never beat the game in the long run, unless you have super luck.

Gamble is defined as a risk undertaken with a potential to gain. I define gamble as a risk undertaken to gain with potential luck. I don’t trust luck, I just don’t. Anything require only good luck to gain, worst still the odds against winner is less than 50%, I consider it as gamble. Let depreciate the definition of gamble, in reality, we gamble everyday. It is rather hard to differentiate a risk taker with a gambler. I hate to gamble but I must admit that I am a risk taker.

I am quite happy with my risk taker personality because it earns me my life, until I fall in love with someone.

When we truly fall in love, we scarify our time and money; we create our own illusion; we changed our dressing, our tone, our character, our hobby and almost anything. We turn ourselves into someone we don’t know, and risk in everything we could possibly offer. It is the biggest game we ever encounter and we feel panic as we don’t know what we can do. Bit by bit, our soul being mutated as well as our mind and at the end of the day, we become our own illusion, a puppet of our own imagination. We have nothing left within, everything has been given out.

Winner takes all and loser loses all. Complicated game, simple rules. We all know the risk, yet we still fall for it.

Risking the rest of our life to love, and, become the god of gambler.

评论

this is a good one, especially the last part :)
do we have to indulge in sadness of love in our whole life? When will we get what we ask in love? Or, we wont? there isnt love utopia is it? cos human beings are always a false and greedy creature....

btw, ur previous message reminds me of the new movie <21> for black jack :)

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