There’s a question commonly asked within the gambling community from one player to another: “what’s your unit?” Your unit is defined by the amount of money you think in multiples of; if you perceive a thousand dollars as ten sets of 100 dollars, that makes your unit 100 dollars. In college, a…

 Wouldn’t it be interesting to see statistics on if your perception of your unit changes the amont you win or lose. It seeme to me that in gambling you win when you don’t have to win, but it’s about the game. It’s when you need that long shot to pay off to pay rent that there’s the problem.

I know no such statistics will ever become available, because what good poker face would always answer truthfully “what’s your unit?”, but still, wouldn’t it be cool to see the effect of gambling if it made no difference to someone’s bottom line…