Since gambling is most based on luck, who else has ever wanted to set your eyes close while you hits the slot or taking your predictions with the believe that.... "Your eye sight has failed you in number of times at when believing that taking your time and plays according to your heart desired based on sights satisfactories was to be the best for you"
Then probably sometimes you want to try a new trick by closing your eyes while picking your predictions or hitting the slots.
Considering that I prefer not to watch games on which I have made serious bets (sports betting), I keep my eyes closed all the time
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But of course, when I choose outcomes where, in my opinion, there is value, I very carefully evaluate all the information that is available to me at that moment. I don't believe in signs and tricks to attract good luck, so I don't use anything like that. Maybe I have a part of the “magical” worldview (for example, I often bet against events because I believe that if they happen, everything will be “unreasonably good” for the team I’m betting against) but mostly it is based on mathematics.
The human brain tends to look for patterns and it finds them even where there are none. For example, as you can see from this thread, many people had the idea to close their eyes while you press the button in the slot machine. Let's say one of 10 such gamblers was lucky and he won a small amount when he did this. He will try this trick again. And now (purely because of mathematics) one out of 100 (one out of ten who succeeded the first time) gamblers will win again after such a trick. At this moment, the pattern that “I close my eyes and my luck increases” will begin to take hold in his brain, subsequently, due to various cognitive distortions (discarding negative events and vividly experiencing positive ones), he will think that this ritual works.
Approximately according to this algorithm, people come to their personal signs/rituals and although they are (obviously) generally meaningless and have no effect, they continue to believe in them. Naturally, here I mean events that are not connected by cause-and-effect relationships, and not “rituals” like “go to work and you will have money.”
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In this case, the events are logically connected and going to work is not a ritual, but a simple rational action.