--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Barry Glazer wrote:
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Yeah but you don't get to choose before the fact, only after. In which case those who got on the drunk pilot's plane made the better "choice".
Those who follow Shackleford's logic would happily spend the afternoon losing hundreds of dollars on some 6-5 progressive with a "highly positive number" while turning their nose up at the "idiot" on the next bank who just hit the Elvis progressive for 20 million-convinced by their ideology that "it doesn't matter if you win or lose".
To the rest of us, it matters very much whether one wins or loses and unless they are a degenerate gambler the "idiot" who hits the 20 million will do quite well-even "in the long term"!
Now if Shackleford said "Don't worry about if you will win or lose, just play games where you have an edge" I don't think any of us would take issue with that. But to say "it doesn't matter if you win or lose" betrays a certain intellectual and ideological snobbishness which some of us find both false and grating.
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