Against human opposition the machine usually emerges victorious, since individual patterns tend to be not random but a function of emotions and previ… - Richard Arnold Epstein

Anthropologists have often commented on the striking resemblance between the uneducated gambler and the primitive.

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.

From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.