The perfect loser (compilation)

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This thread is intended to compile all the info regarding this figure-- The perfect loser-- so we can avoid becoming this character and get ourselves nearer to the perfect winner figure.

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Many years ago when I started with this roulette endeavor, there weren's casinos in Buenos Aires (Argentina), so I had to travel to Mar de Plata or Uruguay.

There gathered all sorts of people, but some were professional gamblers. I decided that the shortest way to live from this was to learn from them. I met many liars who claimed they were winning and winning when in reality they were wasting an inheritance or money from their parents.

Of course, I also found the professionals; and one of them, the great Nono Santelli (RIP), began to teach me many things starting from the figure of the Perfect Loser.

What is the Perfect Loser?, A fictional figure that allows by contrast to become a Perfect Winner (actually closer to that.)

How does a perfect loser behave, this is, someone who ALWAYS loses?

What is probably the only thing that causes someone to lose all his sessions?

Hint: It is considered that the casino never closes.

Answer:

Staying up to losing it all...

Obvious conclusion: you have to leave when you win.

When to go? How to know that if I win, I will not win more?

Answer:

Every negative streak starts with a losing spin.

This is the first sign, sometimes enough to leave. For example, if we play even chance with an uniform unit (flat bets), if our goal is to win one chip (or ten, is the same for that matter) if we just won two, shall we lose the next we're going with the mission accomplished and cut outright the possibility of beign grabbed by a bad streak.

As my first law says you have to limit losses and not the gains, hence I do not recommend going right after just reaching the target, but, if possible, to minimize the following betting attacks and as soon as the first negative signal apprears, then stop.

It is clear then that the Perfect Loser does not know what to do when he wins.

What does the perfect loser do when he loses?

Answer:

Play more, more, more and more ...

If you are in a hole the only thing you never have to do is keep digging.

If we take a shortcut then we can see that a recovery strategy should be SLOW, especially because we can not go into despair and even it allows us to reflect on whether is it not tomorrow the day to recover...

To date:

When the perfect loser wins, stays until he loses everything.

When the perfect loser loses, he bets more and more, or loses more and more until it runs out of money or commit suicide.

What if in that betting more and more he happens to win again, recovered and is again on top?

Answer:

1 .- When he wins, plays until he loses.

2 .- When he loses bets more.

3 .- If he recoups, stays back to step 1.


How does the Perfect Loser play?

Answer:

The perfect loser aims to accelerate the times, and to accelerate his playing time, he plays as hard as possible. Do you know why? Because he wants to stop suffering, he no longer stand.

Is the PL perhaps a fool?

Answer:

No. Only an intelligent person can lose a lot at the casino.

Controversial Law if any, a fool does not usually have much money, and when he has it, it is not easily lost, he is sullen and distrustful.

Watch the big losers and you will see some very smart people, usually seen in other areas: big businessmen, professionals, merchants. Intelligent people.

The perfect losers are smart people following stupid behavior.

And I'm not talking about being addicted to gambling, not least in its terminal phase.

The PL at the bottom feels you just can not win the game, and there are lots of social pressure to do so.

Anyone can say that he is a multinational tobacco company executive and he will be looked at with admiration (when it is proven that the tobacco is killing stuff).

It is not hard to be rejected when we say we live from the game, although legal, although a deeper act of justice, and although we are never hurting anyone.

The PL is an intelligent person who is in a moral debate and has a terrible internal struggle. He  wants to win continuously but can't bear with it as his head is full of prejudices and social conventions.

The PL feels good just beginning to play because adrenaline produces well-being, but after a while it becomes a torture and anguish begins.

In other words, we completed the PL in its first phase.

In summary:

The Perfect Loser -Stage 1

1 .- When he wins keeps playing until he loses.

2 .- When he loses plays more (because the PL can not stand the pressure of playing. If he has the ability to lose big money it is because he is intelligent and knows what it takes to win the money; if he wins, it is socially difficult to sustain this lifestyle. He wants to lose and end his suffering, his internal struggle).

3 .- If he recoups it is to return to step 1 (Continued internal pressure rises, now increased by adrenaline).


The Perfect Loser is an intelligent person, usually successful outside the casino, that has a moral debate between winning, which he would like (but which moral rules condemn) and losing, that moral rules also condemn.

Manrique