The issue being how PSI might relate to gambling.
The pioneer of modern scientific research into applied gambling PSI was Duke University's JB Rhine circa 1927-50:
From The Roots of Consciousness -In 1934, several months prior to publishing his famous paper on Extra-Sensory Perception, Dr. J. B. Rhine received a visit from a young gambler. After comparing notes on conditions for success in psychic testing, he remarked that similar conditions seemed to favor his luck in gambling. Furthermore, he claimed that he himself was sometimes able to exercise a mind over matter effect on dice-throwing games. While belief in such an influence on dice was both common and ancient, until then it had not been deemed a serious problem for scientific study. Rhine discovered that preliminary experimentation would be quick, easy, and inexpensive. The results proved encouraging enough to warrant further research.
By the end of 1941, a total of 651,216 experimental die throws had been conducted. The combined results of these experiments pointed to a phenomenon with 10,115 to 1 odds against chance occurrence.
Rhine went over the records of earlier experiments so conducted that an analysis of position effects could be made, similar to the decline of high ESP scoring toward the end of experimental sessions, detected a few months earlier. If the above chance results had been caused by probability, artifacts, or illegitimate means, one would expect the distribution of hits would be consistent throughout the experiment and would not decline.
The results of this survey indicated there were more hits near the beginning of each run of 24 die throws. The odds against such distribution occurring by chance were about a hundred million to one. This evidence of a presumably psychological effect, similar to that noted with ESP, made a case for psychokinesis strong enough to warrant publication. The first of the papers appeared in the Journal of Parapsychology in 1943. Many others followed.
In 1946 a study was published that pitted the psychokinetic skills of veteran gamblers against those of divinity students. In this contest atmosphere, both groups scored well above chance expectations.
Let's do psi gambling discussion here.
CP and I discussed things like the "zone" in 09 and to me that would be considered a form of "psi". Knowing what to do at points no matter what the count told you. I suspect there are several good players that could be guilty of what would be considered a sin by the masses on BJinfo. I think this is a subject worthy of discussion and if it's not wanted at BJinfo then let's do it here....JtMM
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As for the self respect....All I can say is "all facts and no imagination makes JtMM
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