I once went to a casino in Las Vegas with a friend, and since I didn’t have a few dollars on me, I just watched my friend gamble and didn’t gamble the money myself. Of course, I did not watch for nothing, my friend gave me the task: when he won money, I must drag him away. Take on this job, not for nothing, he will take the winnings, share some to me. Of course, my job is also very difficult, to always accompany my friend until he wins some money, and when he is plugged up, his head is hot, I have to firmly stop him and take him away. In the Las Vegas casino, the first time I went there, I befriended a Northeastern couple who were gambling in it. Three weeks later, I went back to the casino and met the couple again, they said: these weeks, they have been soaking in the casino, there are losses and wins, right, the overall loss of more, they have not withdrawn, refused to stop, always want to win back the money lost, for several weeks down, they did not even bother to sleep well, eyes are o red, repeatedly rubbing eyes, eye infection. That was the first time I saw the legendary “red eyes of loss”. People who have been to the casino many times know the classic phrase: “long time gambling will lose”. But why do people still always bring money and go gambling? Some will even lose all of their own assets? A, the rules of the casino In the process of accompanying friends gambling money, I found that all the different methods of gambling money, the probability rules, for both the gambler and the dealer, is very fair, it is like a “coin toss”, heads and tails face up the chances, the probability of each half. So, why is there a “long bet will lose”? The fundamental reason is that, although the probability is equal, but, we bring the money, gambling more times, there is always a time to lose. At this time, even if we still want to win back, because the money has been lost, had to get up and leave; and the dealer’s money, almost “astronomical”, no matter how much we win him, he always has more money to continue to play with you, until you lose it all. The banker’s money is never lost. In terms of the probability of winning or losing, we are equal with the casino dealer, each having a 50/50 chance of winning or losing. The actual fact that the money of the banker is much more than the money of the gambler, so this constitutes a capital strength degree of inequality, inequality, the result leads to the gambler “long gambling will lose”. If the gambler’s money, more than to the casino dealer hundreds or even thousands of times more, the gambler can completely let the dealer lose all the money. If the gambler and the dealer’s respective money, are endless, then they can always play, play a thousand years, 10,000 years, a tie. When gambling enough times, the more the probability is close to the limit of the overall probability of true value, win or lose 50% of each. Second, gambling, why is it difficult to stop? The reason why gambling loses money is that, when the gambler wins, he does not want to leave voluntarily; when he loses all, he has to be forced to leave. So, gambling, how to stop? There are two ways to stop: actively stop and forced to stop. When the gambler wins money, the gambler is a winner if he can do the initiative to stop gambling. If he does not take the initiative to stop and continues to gamble, he may lose his original winnings again until he is forced to stop his gambling activities. People, why can’t they choose to take the initiative to stop gambling when they win money? This is the weakness of human nature, right? A simple word: greed! You want to win after you win, and you want to win even more after you lose! This, presumably, is human nature, right? In fact, everyone has a sense of “omnipotence” inside, thinking that they can “fix everything”, inside the fantasy of getting rich overnight, “get great success”; in addition, there is In addition, there is a “fluke mentality”, that is, the expectation that the next hand will win. In this way, the gambling continues until all the money is lost. How can I win at the casino? In order to avoid the end of “long gambling will lose”, how can you make yourself not lose money in the casino, or even to win money? 1, must allow themselves to be able to win money in time to stop, active position, go away! Having said that, however, the weakness of human nature, almost no one can do this. Even if this time to do, win money, the next time will run to the casino, thinking to win more money, as a result, fell into the “long gambling will lose” trap; in this case, like my friend, find a person to accompany the side, see him win money, immediately and firmly drag him out of the game. This is indeed a very good approach. However, it is also difficult to do, because, every time you go gambling, you bring a friend with you, and this friend can still not “gambling addiction”, can be calm, can not greedy. This in itself is a relatively difficult thing to do. 2, each time you place a bet, only a small amount of money, you can give yourself a lot of “chances” to win, although the number of money won each time is not much, at least give yourself a lot more “chances” to win. If you bet all your money at once, you will lose all the money you brought with you in one hand, so you will not have money to play a second hand and will be forced to stop and leave the game. If we bring 10,000 yuan, each time we bet, only 10 cents, you can play 100,000 times; if each time you bet only a penny, you can play a million times. The more times you play, the closer you get to the 50% probability of the true value. In this, there will be more chances of “winning and running away”. Even if we don’t win, we at least get more fun and experience gambling. The above reasoning, although theoretically it makes sense, but, in practice, put on everyone, in fact, it is difficult to do. Why can’t people escape the miserable ending of “long time gambling will lose”? In addition to the number of funds is not enough, the reason that can not exceed the banker, the fundamental role, not technology, not probability, is the weakness of human nature, desire, greed!