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Role of Luck, blind luck

September 19th, 2008

The question why man started gambling has a simple answer – to make a gain quickly. But it is also evident that while anyone can indulge in laying a wager on the outcome of something and stake his claim to win something material, he cannot have the power to induce the results to happen in his power. As a matter of fact luck plays a huge role in gambling and many players who venture into the unknown world of gambling, emerge winners or losers based entirely on blind luck. That is how phrases like beginner’s luck came to be coined when a rookie player defeats experienced gamblers and go away with winning considerable amount of dough.

Even as the role of blind luck in gambling ahs interested human mind over the centuries, it is often seen as a mysterious force and the metaphor of blindness came to be associated with the concept of chance or luck because it is all so much arbitrary. Indeed randomness is the essence of being lucky in gambling. Often players may pose as expert gamblers and make astronomical winnings but when asked to explain the strategy, they have to own up their luck. The concept how unpredictability plays a huge role in crowning luck as the determining factor in a gambling game and not the individual player’s skill is borne out by incidents where sometimes gamblers play the same games over and over through the years and still cannot win whereas another player, without the experience or knack of being a seasoned gambler can hit the jackpot with minimum effort. So one never knows when the blind goddess of luck will smile and then he can embark on a winning spree with his gambling ventures. No doubt that as long as gambling continues to hold players captive with its thrill and alluring nature, in the gamblers’ mindset, luck will play an enduring role.

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