You are standing at the game table. Your hand is looking quite bad. You think… should I bluff, should I drop… it is a hard call, and the stake, however big or small, matters. A dilemma you can only solve yourself. Either bad or good. Win or loose? It’s all up to you. The decision is all yours, in the game. Destiny or game knowledge, luck or misfortune, a lot of factors independent of yourself. At the gambling table, life is all about deciding. The adrenaline, focus, initiative, courage, madness, all these are part of the fascinating phenomena that is the game.

The casino is a shorter version of destiny, say the gamblers. A place in which reality strikes you harder and more often than anywhere else. Whether it’s poker, slot-machines, dices or roulette, regardless what and how you are playing, in a casino you are sure to live the feeling of thrill, pleasure, joy and sadness at least once. Life is all about choice. You choose a certain path, make a certain call considering your hand. Some prove right, some wrong. It’s the same in a casino.

This is not an invitation to a casino. The choice is yours. But life is worth living. And from a certain point of view, a casino can be the place to assess whether you are ready for more or not. It is a place in which one visit is enough for you to realize if you are capable of making fast decisions, containing your emotions, your reactions, if you can take losing or savor success, keep a straight line and so on. A casino is a place where, if only for one time only, you can see what living life on fast forward is like. And all this because, with good and bad, a casino is a shorter version of destiny.

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