This Luck Thing (is really getting on my Nerves)
by Susan Sinclair (pen name)
Everyone has an opinion of the four letter word called luck . Some people buy into it and some people never do. Some gamblers think they have a lot of it and some gamblers don't. It's a word that can bring a gambler to their knees or it can lift them up beyond their wildest dreams and yet what is it that it really means?
If you have spent any amount of time in a casino, you have likely heard the following more times than not. “Good Luck,” or “Are you having any luck?” One thing is evident from the beginning of your casino gambling sessions, people believe in luck. The dealers buy into it and so do the pit bosses and most of the players do too but what if no one believed in luck and they just played games of skill and relied entirely on the skills they possessed for winning sessions? Well, frankly my dear, that's not possible.
The reason that it isn't possible to rely entirely on your skill without a second glance at luck is because luck is a very real entity that you must possess in order to gamble. So are two other entities—skill and fate. Now, I know this sounds all a “bit far-fetched” but it's true.
You can not play a skill game and win or lose without attributing whatever the outcome is to luck and believe it or not, before you even walked up to the table, fate was in control as well. Here's where things are a little quirky though.
Since many people believe they can control their destiny , therefore control fate and others believe they can make their own luck , gambling can be a hard dose of reality. I was one of those people that bought into the fact that you can control your own destiny and certainly make or break your own luck . Not anymore.
Over the course of many years of casino gambling, I've decided that my fate is already pre-determined each and every time I gamble no matter what the outcome and I've also decided that the very idea of “luck” really gets on my nerves yet as gamblers, there's no way to really escape the every present realm of luck .
Still, there is a bright side of things to consider when you think about luck. If you have ever experienced “good luck” then you know what I'm talking about. For those of you who believe in the force of luck, then you probably also believe in “riding out your luck” which is very necessary in the world of gambling. What I mean to explain is that if you are having bad luck , it is likely that you are just that much closer to experiencing good luck again.
So, when you're down and out over the nonsense of luck and you feel like you don't possess any luck at all, remember this little theory. In order to get to the good luck , you may have to share in a good measure of bad, but that makes the lucky days in the casino all that much sweeter. And unfortunately, in casino gambling, you don't necessarily “make your own luck,” but instead you control it.
