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Old 12-10-2005, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by SOCRATES
Here is a riddle for all of you to consider:~

If there is a great number of people still pushing money into slot machines, when they " know " there is no chance of winning in the long term, surely they are doing this because they " know " it must be the right thing to do, surely ?

Otherwise why would they persist in doing it, if they " know " there is no chance of winning in the long term ?
They do it for the thrill of winning what seems to them like a large amount of money every now and then. They can forget the small amounts they lose all the time. I used to watch this happen in my local pub, now I observe it at the poker tables
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