Exactly what I thought. He loves maths though he relaized that later. And that gave him an advantage in gamblinghildamartinovic wrote: ↑30 Nov 2020, 23:31 I don't think that he loved gambling that much. He loved chess and math. He only wanted to gamble to make quick money and had to make efforts to learn it at first. Unknowingly, being good at math it helped him with his gambling "career".
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It makes me think a lot of the movie 21. The plot of the movie is that an MIT student becomes involved in an ilicit gambling ring to help pay for college. In this scenario, though, the concepts were reversed - the aptitude for math led to applying it to gambling.
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I agree with you about it working bothways, may be he was good at gambling because of math and vice versa.houligan19 wrote: ↑02 Nov 2020, 22:27 I think that it can easily work both ways. He was interested in gambling to earn a living. He went to school because it became a way to earn a living. It seems as though he liked math somewhat already, but gambling increased that interest, along with his crush, of course. Hard to tell which was actually more important, or if Ron even knew himself.
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I do agree that school was not his main area of interest. I think he liked to think. He took gambling as more of science than just like, kind of like chess. He wanted to understand the patterns. In that way math and gambling are similar so I think he like both. I agree though that he probably only started to truly like math when he realized he was good at it and was recognized for it.lavkathleen wrote: ↑01 Nov 2020, 23:50 Yes, he didn't have much interest in school, given the fact that he's more interested in earning money since he grew up poor. But he discovered his potential in school through Regina, who convinced him to go there, not through gambling. When he got in, he discovered he was good at mathematics and his professors even noticed him.
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There is a risk in gambling, right. Which seems to make gambling such an exciting event. I think that Regina might have influenced him to do well in school, but that it was his risk-taking behaviors that pushed his life forward. He didn't do predictable, he did what was challenging and never done before.lavkathleen wrote: ↑01 Nov 2020, 23:50 Yes, he didn't have much interest in school, given the fact that he's more interested in earning money since he grew up poor. But he discovered his potential in school through Regina, who convinced him to go there, not through gambling. When he got in, he discovered he was good at mathematics and his professors even noticed him.
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