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now imagine each bad play had a cost and you had a budget before too many knocked you out of the game

• Swizec 4y ago
  now imagine doing nothing had a cost and you decided to sit there and pout because others have better cards
  • mcguire 4y ago
    This is really not a helpful reply. To make rummy a good metaphor for this discussion, you need to modify the normal $1/point rummy gambling rules; say making gin gives you $1000 bonus from the house or something. (There's a resemblance to quiddich here, I think.) Anyway, now you have the two extreme strategies: knock if you can, which gets you a few dollars each time, or try exclusively for gin, which usually costs you money on each hand but sometimes pays off. If you're skint, the gin strategy won't work since you can't stay in the game long enough. If you're flush, the knock strategy is uninteresting because a few dollars doesn't make a difference. Now make that bonus $10,000,000,000 and you're making some unicorns, Harry!
  • TuringTest 4y ago
    Now imagine you only have budget for a single round before being eliminated and some of your opponents have money to keep playing indefinitely. That would be the most accurate metaphor
  • int_19h 4y ago
    Well, there's always the option to kick the table over.