Being on a losing machine can be very stressful.And since changing machines will not make a difference in your results,if it makes you feel better emotionally,then why not do it.You actually gain something....you feel better.People can believe what they want about individual trails,but as long as you don't change playing the best EV machines possible with the best strategy possible,Who cares what you believe.The purists feel that you've committed some kind of sacrilege for doing so.
Marc
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Glazer <b.glazer@att.net>
To: vpFREE <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 7:14 pm
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Math v. Superstition?
The "error" is not in changing machines because you've had a "cold streak". The error is thinking / believing that changing machines will really make a difference in future outcome. The other reasons for changing machines are done with a belief that it will be less drafty, that the lighting will be better, that you will be in better company, etc. -- expectations that may have a more factual basis, and good reason for "believing" that THOSE changes will occur. But to think your "luck will change" with a machine change is NOT a reasonable expectation unless you believe that different machines with the same computer hardware are in fact statistically different in their expected performance for mysterious reasons that we can't perceive.
--BG
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> 1.1. Re: Math v. Superstition?
> Date: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:18 am ((PST))
>
> I have never understood the "purists" scoffing at people
> who change machines after a "cold" streak. The fact is
> that it really doesn't matter which machine you use - the
> odds are identical - so if one chooses to change machines
> because of an annoying draft, bad lighting, an obnoxious
> player nearby, wanting a change of scenery, or tiring of
> putting money in and getting none back, it makes no
> difference. One can continue on the same machine or
> move, and it should make no difference - so why the flap if
> you decide to move to a new machine? Makes no sense to
> me.
>
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