True Believers

[Al Schoonmaker]

You wrote: "My explanation? THERE IS NO POKER JUSTICE! Right and might lose to luck! He's going to take MY chips over to the roulette wheel and perform some check for imperfections in the wheel, try to detect some winning pattern on the table,and try to use some astrological, numerological data to lose the chips that came from an expert poker player.

"No wonder we all believe in the gutshot draw! There really is no poker justice anymore."

Ah, but there is. It just takes a long time to operate. If you play properly, you will win. Because he is dumb enough to believe he can beat roulette, he probably plays poker poorly, he will probably lose. But it may take a long time before that pattern is visible.

Any jerk can win tonight, for a week, and maybe for a month. But sooner or later the immutable laws of probability will catch up with him. How else do you explain that some players have won every year for 30 years in a row?

So stop thinking about the short term and remember that cliche, "It's all one long poker game."

Al

[Al Schoonmaker]

Thanks for a good laugh.

Al