Luck, Skill and A Little Thing Called Fate at Casino
By John Waltzer
Walk around on a casino floor and you will quickly discover the power the word ‘fortune’ holds. In fact, there will be no doubt in your mind how many people believe in fortune because as you enter the casino, you will be wished, “good fortune”. After you take your seat at a blackjack table, you will be wished, “good fortune” and many other times while you are there. Even some video poker and slot machines will wish you well wishes of fortune and online virtual dealers wish good fortune sentiments as well.
To have a Successful Gambling Trip
While that may get on my last courage, I have a little secret for you. In order to have a successful gambling trip, you had better believe in the word luck at least to some degree. Even though I am not particularly fond of the sometimes empty-delivered sentiments, I realize my luck must be good in order for me to win. However, as much as I believe in luck, I believe in fate and skill more.
Improve Skill and Believe in Luck
Skill can be improved upon and so luck can if you believe that you make your own luck and I do. In fact, if everyone approached the casinos with a good attitude and with the belief that they were not just going to ‘take down the house’ but they were going to ‘bury it’ then casinos might have to shut their doors. Moreover, lock them!
Belief on Yourself
While many of you may think that, I live in a dream world and do not know what I am talking about, consider this. The power of one man referred to as ‘The Donald’ proves in itself that people can make their own luck. In fact, how many corporate lives does this man have? All that he wants and all that he believes he can achieve, he apparently owns.
How to Handle the Situation
This brings me to another quality that a gambler must recognize, fate. Listen to me on this because I know what I am talking about. If you are on a rare losing trip and it seems that no matter what you do, you simply cannot win. You may be running through a short spell of bad luck. It is not in the cards for you to win on this particular trip. Now, there are two ways you can handle this situation. Actually, there are three. First, you can ‘ride it out’ by lowering your bet to bare minimums (yes, table minimums). Second, you can leave the casino altogether (which may not be a bad idea) or third, you can act like money is no object (and maybe it is not) and give a huge donation to support the casino’s upcoming expansion.
Hard to Change Fate
Obviously, the third choice is what many people choose to do without any level of awareness that they are doing it. However, I choose to stick with the first choice. Occasionally, if I find I simply cannot ride it out, I will leave. However, I hold a strong belief that is two-fold. First, if it is not in the cards that I am going to have a profitable trip, then it will be hard for me to change fate without a good run of luck, which I will never own again unless I mess carefully through the bad luck to get there.
See, luck does come and go. Even, ‘The Donald’ with all of his financial difficulties could attest to that but its how you handle yourself when Lady Luck has gone on vacation that determines your overall destiny.
About Skill and Good Luck
Well, I am off my pedal stool now. It is up to you to decide what you think. However, I rather like the fact that my gambling destiny is controlled by more than just one factor. Moreover, when fate is waiting to deal me a royal flush, I want to have the skill to make the most of it and use any measure of good luck to cash in big!