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Is It Really Your Lucky Day?

I’m an Aquarius. Today, I was flipping through the newspaper, and happened to see my horoscope, hidden back behind the funny page. What do you know: the stars tell me that “today is my lucky day!” Does this make me more likely to win at the slot machines, if I should drive down to my nearest land-based casino, or if I fire up my computer to partake of the online slots? It sounds ridiculous, but a recent letter to gambling expert John Robison asked pretty much that same thing. Robison writes a syndicated column that appears in several newspapers and on a select number of Internet websites.

The reader asked Robison if he thought that careful examination of a player’s horoscope could potentially help them determine the winningest time to play the slots. Reader “Sail” explained to Robison that s/he had seen horoscopes that specifically mentioned that it might be a good day to play one’s luck. Not surprisingly, Robison was not impressed by the notion that, if the moon was in the third house and Venus was in perfect alignment with the Sun, one would almost certainly be guaranteed of a jackpot on that precise moment in time.

Look, we all have our pet superstitions. Some slot fans like to prop pictures of their kids, their sweetheart, or their pet dog on the pokey to hopefully bring them some better luck, but that certainly doesn’t mean that the tactic will be successful! Feel free to believe in whatever you’d like, but the fact remains that the theory of a “lucky streak” simply does not hold up.

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