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The House Always Wins. Except in Your Head.Every culture that has ever invented numbers has immediately used them for three things: counting food, counting enemies, and confidently believing they could beat random chance if they just felt it hard enough. Gambling is not a side hobby of civilization. It is one of its oldest scientific experiments, running continuously for at least five thousand years, involving dice made of bones, cards smuggled across borders, spinning wheels, glowing screens, and a remarkable number of people who were ""definitely due."" This book is not about how to gamble. It is about why gambling works on us at all. It is about probability-pure, elegant, brutally indifferent probability-colliding with the human brain, which evolved to hunt, gather, and spot patterns in bushes, not to interpret random number generators dressed up as cherries. It is about dopamine, loss aversion, near misses, hot streaks, cold streaks, lucky shirts, unlucky chairs, and the mysterious confidence people gain after watching someone else win. It is about the difference between risk and danger, chance and certainty, randomness and meaning, and why your brain insists they are negotiable.

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