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, f… - Richard Arnold Epstein

Although the major gambling casinos do not maintain statistical records on the results of games of Craps, one event has been recorded-that wherein a young man achieved 28 consecutive "passes" at the Desert Inn Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada (June 10, 1950). Odds against such an event are 400 million to 1.

Shortly after pithecanthropus erectus gained the ascendancy, he turned his attention to the higher-order abstractions.

There are no conventional games involving conditions of uncertainty without risk.