Atlantic City Weekly

Make the Best Decisions in the Short Run

WHEN YOU READ gambling books and articles, you sometimes see a distinction made between the "short run" (tonight, this weekend, this week, this month) of a few hundred or a few thousand decisions, and the "long run" (a few years or more) of millions of decisions. As pundits have noted since Pascal, in the short run anything can and does happen. Players can go on incredible streaks of improbable wins or equally improbable losses. Gaming writer Barney Vinson saw the number 7 come up six times in a row at roulette a couple of years ago. That's about as improbable...