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[nicholas_chiasson]

-I went to gangwon land with my school teachers for an end of year celebration trip. Anyway we were there about one hour. Nobody won except me. But watching the playing style of roulette was bizarre. People threw down like 15-20 chips on that many numbers. In other words if they won...they were making as much money as they would have by betting rouge and noir or odds and evens. And they all write down the numbers like it makes a difference. Out of an entire table of about 8 players, only 2, including me, made bets on colors.
-I won enough to buy a TOASTER OVEN! French Bread Pizza here I come!

[laogaiguk]

Maybe they just don't understand the game (or the odds). I bet you aren't a good GO player and would make moves that would be considered ludicrous to a good player. Just a thought. They could also be idiots.

[nicholas_chiasson]

You know I remember reading a book on gambling. it said
"If you don't know the rules you should not play the game. It is amazing how much a casino makes by people hitting on 19 and 20 in blackjack. And craps? Some people think you just throw the dice and hope they give you money."

[Ilsanman]

I find Koreans to be, on the whole (on average, so don't accuse me of overgeneralizing) to be weak willed.

Not knowing the game is one thing. Not being able to quit is another. Look at how fast those Sea Story places cleaned out many-a-ajosshi's pockets before they were forcefully shut down.

[ernie]

how can someone not understand the rules of roulette?!
1) bet on a number or a group of numbers
2) your odds are proportional to the number of hits that correspond to your bet, with the odds in favor of the house, depending upon whether there's 1 or 2 zeros
3) spin the wheel
4) it's RANDOM, so unless you're going to keep track of a million or so spins (to find the slow spots on the wheel) and have enough money to bet enough times to make it statistically significant, you might as well just play for fun

i doubt your friends were that much worse than you... you got lucky!

[pkang0202]

Johnny Chan is one of the best Poker players in the world. Looks Asian to me.

[regicide]

[Scotticus]

[mistermasan]

my house is in/right next to east st.louis,ILLinois. the gambling casino there has expanded yet again. it never failed to amaze me the number of asians in that place. oftentimes it seemed as if they were the majority. where did they all come from? that anyone would come to east st.louis to gamble stuns me to this day (there are other casinos around st.louis in much beter places). i don't gamble, but i'd go with friends. the amount of money thrown away on stooopid bets was boogling. saw one guy flush away 3k in about five minutes because he wanted to get comped a room for the night.

[ernie]

IMHO, anyone playing against the house (without cheating, of course) is a bad gambler! a good gambler invests money when the odds of return are in their favor, e.g. when the market is low, when there is a chance of a commodity becoming scarce, when they have better information than the other party, etc... people who go to casinos to try and make money are ALL idiots... you should go to the casino for the fun of it, and if you win that's a bonus!

[Yaya]

Everytime I hit a casino in the U.S., Asians are always overrepresented. I also remember firehouses that had casinos, and you could always count on Koreans to be there. Several people I knew around me had serious gambling problems, and had borrowed big from friends to feed their bad habit.

I remember a Korean-American guy telling me that he was approached in Atlantic City by a Korean guy asking for money, because he had lost all of his.

[pkang0202]