We need a new word for "gambling"

[Orpheus]

Ich bin erschrockt -erschrockt!- dass es gibt kerfilozlinkiting in diesem Haus!

Hmm... it lacks a certain je ne sais quois. To really sound German it would have to be something like Werterwarteterspielen ("Wert-erwarteter-spielen" or "expected value playing"] -- but I suppose the charm of that neologism depends on your appreciation of really strained multilingual puns and other forms of organic brain damage.

Fahigkeitubergluckspielen?
Rentabelselbsttäuschung?
Abweichungspiel?
Selbstmordreiztspielen?
Stattstudierenarbeit? (or maybe Universitätsbiersyndrom?]

Sorry. I guess I'm just not in a properly German state of mind [Richtigerdeutschergeisteszustand?] What was it Goethe said? "Die Wahrheit liegt im Wein..."

In the meantime, I think there'd be something intriguingly ambiguous about a self-styled "expectation player" [as opposed to an "expectoration player", which would be something entirely different].

Suddenly, all those years in medical school are looking like a smart choice again.