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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (53760)	11/22/2006 4:01:29 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

This is the same in blackjack (a tribal game if I ever saw one). People are consumed with who does what and it it was the "right" play. They don't realize that wrong plays help and hurt people exactly as much as "right plays (except for the player, of course). The cards are random and nobody knows whether drawing to a 20 or standing on a 3 is going to make or break that hand or how many blackjacks it will give you or me at the end of the shoe. They should be lamenting: "Stop that guy from going to the loo! The bastard ruined the next hand! The idiot doesn't know how to play!" :-) Personally, I could care less how people play. The odds are the odds. Whatever anybody does changes what cards fall where--but it DOES NOT change the odds. I prefer to play at four in the morning on a high table ALONE. I can't stand the primitive muttering. If others sit down, they generally leave pretty quickly.