1.Isn't being ahead overall in casinos for your life more important than what happens on any given day?
*** Yes. But I must add that, even though true, only partly helps the irritating melancholy on a losing day.
2. How can people ever claim to be winning, if they are really down huge amounts of money over their life in casinos?
*** They do it, as you said, by using "several layers of cognitive distortion, bad record keeping and selective memory". Also, because it makes them feel good, and they're happy because they did win right then.
3. Would it not be correct only for people who are ahead in casinos overall in their life, to ever claim that they are "winning"?
***Yes, I agree. But then I actually think that many people don't think of it as one long session, and never perceive it that way. To those people, it's a day to day enterprise and their happiness or the opposite depends on those latest results.
Valerie
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