steve said:
Gizmo if someone tried to explain his mistake, he probably would have thought the person trying to help them just didn't know any better, or was jealous. It's very common delusion and we see it every day on gambling forums. Most players don't even understand the basics.
We can hope that they will come to forums like this and learn how to play safely before they actually go to the casino with their bankrolls. If they can do it at home in practice then they might be able to do it in a real casino at another time. There is no substitute for experience.
This is a true story. My older brother was 23 and my sister was 21 so my brother took here to Lake Tahoe to do some gambling. He had never done that before but being big brother he was going to show here how it's done. So they walk up to the Roulette table and he places a $5 bill on the table. He wanted to get some change. It was a $1 table where you could bet 25c chips. He didn't know it but he put the $5 on Black. The next spin landed on Red. The dealer took the $5 and that was that. So my brother turns to my sister and says, "That's all you need to know about gambling."
Now she is an addiction specialist certified in addictions and family practice, as a working therapist for a county in California, and my brother is a known Psychologist , academic that writes text books. They both know that I'm crazy and that I love to gamble. There is no way on this side of the galaxy that they would ever or could ever listen to me.
She was nice to me a few years ago. She was one of the first ten students. I taught here face to face. She never went to a casino to try it. I even got her a real table felt and a bunch of real weighted chips so practice would all seem real to her.
I wonder what they will all do when they find out that I've succeeded in finding the true holy grail of Roulette through randomness studies. Anyone that knows me knows that I go on and on endlessly harping about randomness and trends. It's just my thing. A