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Originally Posted by Peleke4  Are you familiar w/ craps? Talk about beginner's luck...
Perhaps my intense, strong feeling of conviction to hit points influenced the rolls? Looking back, that hot run really did seem magical... hot runs like that seem like an impossibility during subsequent crap sessions. |
Beginners luck is a glimpse at what happens when we just do something for the fun of it, without being attached to the outcome. Beginners luck is a honeymoon season. You just want to be with that person, you don’t care about anything else.
This is especially true with money. The reason beginners luck is not easily replicated, is because once you taste “easy money”, you become attached to it. But the reason you won the money as a beginner is because you just wanted to play the game (the money was just a bonus).
When your focus shifts from “I just want to play the game because it is fun” to “I want to make money by throwing a dice” – your mind starts to figure out how to throw that dice better, it starts telling you what you should or should not do, it wants to create a plan of action.
So what happened? If you try to remember your state of being at the time when you were winning, you were not really thinking, you were in the game having fun. You know, that moment when you don’t even notice time because you are having such a great time.
In other words, you were taking inspired action while being detached from the outcome.
Here is my personal experience. The very first game I have ever played at a casino was roulette. I started playing with $100, played it for about two hours and I won $17K. I don’t remember how many bets I made, but I remember that I only guessed wrong a few times.
In fact, the dealer became suspicious and called the manager. They even changed dealers a few times, but this was my first ever casino game. I was so excited; I was having such a great time that I didn’t even realize how much money I was winning. I just kept betting on either red or black. I really didn’t care about the money.
Then, my wife with her girlfriends found me and they started telling me that I am crazy and I have to quit, because if I keep playing I would lose it all. So I counted my chips and realized how much money I won. After which, everything changed. I started thinking about not losing money and I lost about 10 bets in a row, and yes, I did quit after that.