Quote Originally Posted by Renton View Post
It seems like one major school of thought exhibited in this thread is that life has infinite value and 1% of infinity is still infinity. The flaw in that logic is revealed, however, when we lower the odds. 0.0001% of infinity is still infinity, yet most of us are willing to take such gambles without losing much sweat.
90-95% of poker players are long term losers, and I'm guessing there is even a selection bias involved in that even an average poker player is better at math/abstract reasoning than an average person.