Coach, allow me to help you out here. After you misconstrued some basic probability terminology, I suggested you take some probability courses. You said you had no interest. But that's otay, as Buckwheat would say.

Let me explain. Gambling is not like having a hot wife, like MDawg's. In gambling, when you've won 25 or 30 or 40 times in a row at a -EV game, that's statistically very rare. And you keep arguing that it can happen, and there is no evidence MDawg was fibbing. All well and true. But going forward, even if we accept MDawg's previous 40 straight wins (not counting the stock market or the hot wife), the expectation is that MDawg should operate at chance (oh, sorry, there's that tricky probability phrase). But in posts to come, at each step of the way, MDawg does not report chance results. And he is almost certainly not going to report that he is operating at chance (sorry again) in the future. It's March 17. Do you really think between now and August 17, assuming MDawg gambles some, he will operate at chance (sorry again)?

See, how this differs from having a hot wife is that most of the time, if you have a hot wife (as MDawg most certainly does), then the next time you see her, she's still hot. And seeing her be hot 40 times in a row is not statistically unusual. Going forward, after those 40 times of seeing her hot, she will probably still be hot.

Thus, having a hot wife is not the same as gambling...probabilistically. I hope this helps you out until you get to take those probability courses you seem to have an aversion to. I mean, years of convoluted arguing on forums, trying to twist minutia to make Rube Goldberg arguments.

Wouldn't it just be easier to take some probability courses so you can really get into it? And if you figure out what MDawg's doing, you can then have a hot wife like MDawg and understand the probability of it all.