The environment often does not contain stable, learnable patterns that intuition can reliably exploit.
There are more fallacies in gambling than other endeavors where real patterns can emerge.
HOWEVER- in games such as poker, intuition can become useful because opponents exhibit behavioral patterns and skill matters.
In blackjack, expertise can improve decisions because the probabilities are mathematically structured.
But even there, reliable intuition comes from learned probabilities and experience—not from a mysterious “gut feeling.”
I got back from a recent trip to Foxwoods.
I dropped $300 on video slots. My last trip to Mohegan Sun yielded $547 on slots.
I was up $826 or so on Blackjack, Poker, and Roulette.
My last trip to Mohegan I about broke even at the blackjack tables.
Intuition can tell you to set limits on your gambling and when to walk away. It can't tell you the next spin will trigger a bonus feature.
