Do horoscopes influence gambing?

There are many things that horoscopes are useful for - dating, Feng shui, a positive outlook on your day. And there are many that believe that properly calculated horoscopes can help determine a lifemate, pick a job, or beat the odds in Vegas.

Whether that is all or in part true is hard to say as many can correlate a positive outcome to a positive horoscope. Or even the converse. And then there are those that completely discount any influence that horoscopes can provide.

One such case is John Robison who relpies to a reader wondering if horoscopes can help with their gambling. His response can be summed up with this

“Someone whose horoscope says they’re due for good luck may lose more than they can really afford to lose because they think that good fortune will come with the next $100 buy-in. And when good fortune doesn’t come, they think it will come with the next buy-in. So they keep feeding machines because they think they’re due to hit, just like one can think a machine is due to hit.”

I like to believe that those who follow horoscopes know that while they may be accurate in a general sense, that gambing is a game of chance. Even if a horoscope could influence the outcome, common sense notes that given time the odds always fall against the player. I view those following horoscopes as having that common sense. It seems that John Robison does not hold that view.

What do you think?