>Anyone who gambles is a sucker. I have never gambled nor do I intend to start.
Paraphrasing a popular Spanish humor program, "I have never gambled, nor will I do it again..."
As a Bahá'í, my position is very simple: Bahá'u'lláh has forbidden gambling.
Apart from that, it does make sense, too. Actually, the math is very simple: The "house" has calculated everything so it makes money, AND it has to cover its operating costs, so the players lose money (on the average), since there is no added value involved.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
