Automatic Monkey said:
Now if you'll all excuse me, I've got some sims to run and chart to print before I go off to battle for the long weekend! And if I see any obnoxious people holecarding, I'll be sure to point them out to the pit. Wouldn't that be funny if they got arrested. :celebrate Do you think they'd sell each other out down at the police station?
Those sims aren't going to help you. You've already said you're going to be playing red chips and not taking realistic measures to being a Real Pro or getting a respectable level of EV from your hobby. So, simulate to your heart's content, and then enjoy wasting your time and pretending you're something besides a weekend warrior. By the way, it's good of you to go ahead and let us know your natural inclination is one of a rat, though it doesn't matter anyway, because you'd probably be too oblivious to see another advantage player of any stripe in action, because you'll be too busy trying to remember if you should bet four red chips or five red chips given the current count. That said, if the hole-carders do get arrested, I'm sure they'll be getting the last laugh after their six figure settlements come in from their civil law suits, as that would be wrongful arrest ont he part of the casinos.
supercoolmancool said:
What do the real pros do about health insurance, or do they make enough gambling that they don't need it?
Blue Cross/Blue Shield catastrophic insurance. Just a little protection against tremendous negative variance. Sure, it's negative EV, just like all insurance, but I'll take it, in that I only have this one life to live, and it would suck to be holding the ball in the rare event of a terrible turn of events and hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills. Mine is a health savings plan, so I'm effectively contributing toward my first deductible with every payment.
The other option is to marry someone with an actual job that has benefits.
Mimosine said:
i have no sense then, because i'm siding with the chimp. don't you know that monkeys have undergone more evolution than humans over the past 100,000 years. they are working their way to the top of the evolutionary ladder, and since i'm secretly aligning myself with them now, every chance i get, to learn from their evolutionary advantage.
1: Chimps aren't monkeys.
2: Some species of monkey haven't changed at all in the last 100,000 years.
3: Evolution happens continuously to all populations of organisms. Some mutations are accepted by the population because it makes them more successful or for reasons of novelty, and some are rejected because they do not enhance chances for survival. To say that one organism has "undergone more evolution" than another organism is meaningless, because it is a continuous statistical process that happens at the same rate to all populations. Rejection of a change is a response to evolutionary pressures just as is acceptance of a chance. Thus, if you accept the premise that life arose on this planet at one time and we are all descended from that initial emergence of life, then you must concede that all organisms are equally evolved, from bacteria to man. That is the most commonly accepted model in the scientific community today.