The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. - Richard Arnold Epstein

A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution.

Because the fluctuations in the composition of the deck as it is dependent over successive (and dependent) trials, it is intuitively apparent that altering decisions or the magnitude of the wager or both in accordance with the fluctuations should prove advantageous to the player.

The essence of the phenomenon of gambling is decision making. The act of making a decision consists of selecting one course of action, or strategy, from among the set of admissible strategies.