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by awalGarg 3793 days ago
Here is a related lecture from MIT https://youtu.be/56iFMY8QW2k which mathematically proves how it is pretty much impossible to go "happy" from gambling in a club even though intuition says otherwise.
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What does "happy" mean?

It's not hard to set up a bet that gives you an arbitrarily high chance of gaining money, despite an expected value of less than 1.