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by ben_w 94 days ago
Hence beginner's luck.

Most long-term gamblers will tell you that the first games they played, they won. This is a real thing, yet we cannot apply it by making one bet and then stopping, because so are the probabilities being fair and un-biased.

What squares these two things is that most of the people who played and lost their first games, did not get addicted to gambling.