Returning to the question of fairness

A follow-up on fairness gives readers another entry into a complicated discussion. The relevant distinctions include whether rules are disclosed, whether the game follows those rules and whether a player's recent experience is large enough to support a statistical conclusion.

A personal perspective

An individual session is a story, not a controlled sample of a game. Personal accounts can illuminate what players notice, remember and find confusing, while leaving the probabilities of future hands unchanged. This distinction is useful when reading both winning milestones and frustrating runs.