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Originally Posted by traynor
The start of a plan to win should be what everyone should have learned as a young boy (or girl). "Playing" is pretend. When the game is over, one's marbles are returned to their rightful owner, and those "playing dead" get up to play another day. The alternative is "for keeps." If one's marbles are lost, one has lost them--they are not returned when the game is over. The dead get buried and are soon forgotten.
Most young boys (and girls) encounter those who advocate "playing" when they intend the results to be "for keeps"--and learn at a very early age to avoid such.
When the day comes that I lose a very large wager on a photo finish and the mutuel clerk says, "Oh, here, sir, here is your money back. We were only pretending." I will consider wagering on horse races as "playing a game." Until that day, it is what it is. War.
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Yup, we played marbles almost daily when I was a kid, always "for keeps". I learned early on that all I had to do was, be patient, all the marbles would end up in my bag, eventually.
