Destiny Doesn’t Allow

For a professional gambler, what you win doesn’t matter at all. As long as you keep playing, you’ll eventually win. But gains and losses spring from the same source—how you win is how you’ll lose it back.

The single most important thing in a professional gambler’s life, and indeed the only thing that matters, is avoiding that reversal: keeping losses from wiping out his winnings. That discipline is what changed his fate, letting him walk away with what he’d won.