Whenever we make the drive from Vegas back to Los Angeles, we get a chuckle seeing the sign right before the Stateline Primm casinos that says "Last Chance to Get Even."
I know that a lot of gamblers leaving Vegas take that exit ramp off the I-15 thinking that after losing money in Vegas that the odds will catch up with them at Primm.
That's pretty much what long term gamblers think too. They think that over the long term the odds will catch up with them.
I remember when I was going through that 170-thousand hand drought of Royals, and others would tell me that my royals were coming and my drought would end. It was if they were trying to say "the math will take care of you over the long term."
Well, I've made that stop at Primm, and I can tell you that you can never depend on the math catching up with you to take you out of a hole.
And I understand Rob Singer when he says he was forced into being addicted to playing when he was a "AP" because he had to keep playing so that the math would work for him... but it didn't.
So now when we pass that "Last Chance To Get Even" sign we giggle. We do sometimes stop, but it's more likely because it's the last chance to buy gas before the long trip through the desert.