Here you go AxelWolf

[1Hit1der]

I suppose it could be argued then, that if this betting more and more leads to more and more winning, then it is okay, but if it leads to more and more losing, it is not okay.

That's true only in the short term. At least with losing everything, or, drinking too much, there's the (small) chance that each can be quit, for good, that the thus delusions fall to the side.

For the ones who find out novel stuff about probability theory and statistics, etc, as in how to truly beat a casino game, things always lead elsewhere.

Diaconis left home at 14 to travel with sleight-of-hand legend Dai Vernon, and was awarded a high school diploma based on grades given to him by his teachers after dropping out of George Washington High School. He returned to school at age 24 to learn math, motivated to read William Feller's famous two-volume treatise.

Diaconis has coauthored several more recent papers expanding on his 1992 results and relating the problem of shuffling cards to other problems in mathematics. Among other things, they showed that the separation distance of an ordered blackjack deck (that is, aces on top, followed by 2's, followed by 3's, etc.) drops below .5 after 7 shuffles. Separation distance is an upper bound for variation distance.

Diaconis has been hired by casino executives to search for subtle flaws in their automatic card shuffling machines. Diaconis soon found some and the horrified executives responded, "We are not pleased with your conclusions but we believe them and that's what we hired you for."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persi_Diaconis

[accountinquestion]

Drove to Vegas today

Just catching up.
Reading this, all I can say is, I need a fucking drink.

And it's been six months.....

Can I ask without getting a trollish response, what is the attraction at this particular time Ray Finkle? .

Why would you ask this way?

I haven't trolled you at all.

Why would you ask in a trollish way?

His need for victimhood is important.

[MaxPen]

Can I ask without getting a trollish response, what is the attraction at this particular time Ray Finkle? .

Why would you ask this way?

I haven't trolled you at all.

Why would you ask in a trollish way?

His need for victimhood is important.

Victimhood seems to be a prerequisite in the gay community.

One day we'll see our resident fraud fag in the Review Journal telling us how it's someone else's fault for his years of shenanigans in the Strip's various restroom stalls.....RIP

https://nypost.com/2023/12/18/opinio...urce=pmbug.com

[kewlJ]

MaxPen, why do you care SO much and write so much about gay shit? With me, with mickey. Almost anyone you attack or bust on it is some kind of gay shit. My guess is you are deeply, deeply in the closet. This is America. Be who you want to be. Do what you want to do. If you want to suck a dick or take it up the ass, go do it. Don't just be miserable living a life deeply in the closet like you are doing. That is just sad and cowardly.

oh yeah almost forgot. RIP

And I sincerely hope you do rest in peace soon rather than later. Because you seem such a tortured soul, miserable and doing all you can to make everyone else just as miserable.

[soxfan]

The kewl-J always operate from the same play-book. Every time he get caught in one of his bulls-shits, talls-tale he jump up and down all hysterical, get defensive and claim that cats are out to get him, with the vendetta, cuz he's queer. The boy is trapped in some kinda feed-backs loop, hey hey.

[jdog]

A person who doesn't drink often has some aspect of themselves they wish to hide.

Yeah... I'm not quick to trust those who don't drink at all. Of course that feeling may change over time after getting to know someone and what their motivations are.

I also find it interesting that people who don't drink, or drink only rarely, are quicker to throw the 'alcoholic' label around. I will only use that term if someone meets at least one of the following criteria:

• They cannot be sober, shortly after they get up they're hitting the bottle. This is the raging alcoholic.
• Once the person starts drinking they will not stop (or find it difficult to) until they are completely wasted and irrational. This would be more the functional alcoholic.

In either case, the person suffers some serious negative consequences when they are drinking. Falling short of any of this then the person is probably just an alcohol abuser. I think there is much confusion over the distinction. Just my opinion.

[mickeycrimm]

MickeyCrimm. He's perhaps the wisest of the alcoholics mentioned today, because he recognized that it was not something he could or wanted to control, and stopped entirely (let's assume he is telling the truth about stopping). Complete abstinence most agree is the best treatment for alcoholism or alcohol problems.

I wasn't addicted to alcohol. I was a binge drinker. An episodic alcoholic. I went days and even weeks between drinking binges. But when I hit the bar I had no problem drinking them out of a liter of whiskey by closing time.

It's great to occasionally get out and binge drink. That is, when you are young. But in the end, if you keep it up, you just wind up an old drunk. That's what I seen in the mirror and that's why I quit.

Feb 28, 2017 was the last night I had a drink, or I should say 20 drinks. The next day I woke up and, for some reason, said fuck it, I'm through. I'm two months shy of 7 years being dry.

Am I just a dry alcoholic? Who cares? I don't. The simple of it is if you don't drink you don't get drunk.

[MisterV]

Well played, Mickey.

I'm sure you appreciate keeping all that money that otherwise would have been given to bartenders.

Christ on a crutch, have you seen how the prices of mixed drinks have gone up?

[jdog]

So was Mickey a functional alcoholic <or> an alcohol abuser? Some might argue if he decided to completely quit drinking then he was probably suffering some pretty negative consequences from doing so. But I can't answer that... only Mickey can. So at the end of the day 'alcoholic' is a black and white label, but reality tends to be more in a grey area. Regardless those, who don't know a person very well, should not be so quick to label people as such.

Even though he calls himself an episodic alcoholic, his confession seems to point more to his reasons for quitting relating to his age. Obviously alcohol is harder on your body as you get older. I know if I ever stopped drinking, or even substantially cut down, it would only be for health concerns related to my age.

[kewlJ]

Christ on a crutch, have you seen how the prices of mixed drinks have gone up?

Why would Christ need a crutch? If he had an injury requiring a crutch, couldn't he just heal himself?

[mickeycrimm]

So was Mickey a functional alcoholic <or> an alcohol abuser? Some might argue if he decided to completely quit drinking then he was probably suffering some pretty negative consequences from doing so. But I can't answer that... only Mickey can. So at the end of the day 'alcoholic' is a black and white label, but reality tends to be more in a grey area. Regardless those, who don't know a person very well, should not be so quick to label people as such.

Even though he calls himself an episodic alcoholic, his confession seems to point more to his reasons for quitting relating to his age. Obviously alcohol is harder on your body as you get older. I know if I ever stopped drinking, or even substantially cut down, it would only be for health concerns related to my age.

Two things when I quit:

1) I was no longer blowing 30K a year in the bars.

2). I was no longer losing productivity because of 3 day hangovers.

It was a 100K a year difference.

[accountinquestion]

So was Mickey a functional alcoholic <or> an alcohol abuser? Some might argue if he decided to completely quit drinking then he was probably suffering some pretty negative consequences from doing so. But I can't answer that... only Mickey can. So at the end of the day 'alcoholic' is a black and white label, but reality tends to be more in a grey area. Regardless those, who don't know a person very well, should not be so quick to label people as such.

Even though he calls himself an episodic alcoholic, his confession seems to point more to his reasons for quitting relating to his age. Obviously alcohol is harder on your body as you get older. I know if I ever stopped drinking, or even substantially cut down, it would only be for health concerns related to my age.

Two things when I quit:

1) I was no longer blowing 30K a year in the bars.

2). I was no longer losing productivity because of 3 day hangovers.

It was a 100K a year difference.

It seems to be often the case that men become tired of hangovers. It is a known biological thing that hangovers become worse.

From lack of hangovers comes extra productivity.

[MisterV]

Christ on a crutch, have you seen how the prices of mixed drinks have gone up?

Why would Christ need a crutch? If he had an injury requiring a crutch, couldn't he just heal himself?

Uhhhh...So he could spread his filth?

[Ray Finkle]

Get behind me Satan....

[1Hit1der]

Uhhhh...So he could spread his filth?

--->

Adolf Hitler's spouse. [The internet punching bag, KJ]

A Helpful Sisterhood. [Mrs. V's inner feelings for KJ]

https://anagram-solver.net/Uhhhh...S...h?partial=true

Christ on a crutch spread your filth!

--->

List of Punch-Out!! characters. [Including the internet punching bag, KJ]

Portland Churches of Christ. [Mrs. V's city]

https://anagram-solver.net/Christ%20...h?partial=true


Interestingly, every place has a connection to Christ, but, what came up was Portland. A one-city-in-over-ten-thousand chance, by randomness alone. And, what chance of any city in that spot?

In conclusion, God couldn't care less about the internet punching bag, but, He's surely relishing the thought of cashing in V's soul, soon. Ha. Bad V. Burning Man V. Magic Man V. Vicarious.

[MDawg]

From 2021:

I trust a heavy drinker.

I'm not quick to trust those who don't drink at all.

I know if I ever stopped drinking, or even substantially cut down, it would only be for health concerns related to my age.

We got another heavy drinker/alcohol abuser/potential alcoholic. Talking about “substantially” cutting down, implies heavy drinking in the first place.

So how many "drunks" are on this forum? really.

[MDawg]

Do I think I'm an addict?

Not really, but I have a strong weed habit.

Come on mang, you've been ingesting one mind altering substance or another almost every day of your life since you were 15, if you're not an addict who is?

[MisterV]

Come on mang, you've been ingesting one mind altering substance or another almost every day of your life since you were 15, if you're not an addict who is?

Riddle me this, dawg:

Am I then any different in your eyes than a pious, devout Christian, or Muslim, or true believer of any other religion or sect who spends a lot of time thinking about religion and who allows religion to influence their actions?

Is the old lady who goes to mass daily and lights a novena candle an addict?

How about those who face Mecca on their knees many times a day in prayer?

Are firm believers "addicts" and if so, is that a bad thing?

Final question: what is the difference between something being an "addiction" and a 'crutch?"

[jdog]

So how many "drunks" are on this forum?

Feel good about yourself when judging others??

Funny a guy who spends so much time in a casino calling others 'addicts' and 'drunks'. I got news for you buddy, you and almost all of us in here are gambling addicts. The key is avoiding the negative consequences of addiction, in this case losing money. An addiction that has little to no negative consequences can be referred to as a pastime or a hobby... a career... lol. But everything in life has the potential to become an addiction, more or less.

[MDawg]

Alcohol use is widely accepted in the US, but even moderate consumption is associated with many harmful effects

Axelwolf was drunk 80% of the time I worked with him. He used to have me order his drinks for him, so that he could have two drinks at the same time. Always captain morgan.

Axelwolf's decision making skills were affected by his drinking, no question. He would be drunk, then make poor decisions, which in the end costed team money.

I have personally witnessed axel forget very important details multiple times. One time I lost $2000 while working with him. When I brought it up, he said "You're so full of shit."