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Most experts will tell you that gambling is a game of chance; those experts are wrong. Gambling is a psychological phenomenon. Gambling takes place in the mind, not at a slot machine, horse track, poker table or back alley dice game. Gambling is the metaphysical absorption and dispensation of risk for the purpose of sport with real-life consequences. This is why gambling makes no sense to people who are risk-averse and is vastly appealing to fabulists. Gambling taps into our imagination. Gambling makes us believe things we ought not to believe, which is as good a definition of fiction as one is likely to find.
