广为流传的赌桌上的迷信

　　当你有在上一个骰子的单辊结果的投注数千美元的习惯的时候，转动的车轮或转卡，迷信往往就会有一个全新的诠释意义。这里是几个最有名的和流传最久的与赌徒相关的迷信：

　　兔子的脚

　　兔子的脚一直被视为一个命运的力量，是反对任何潜在的恶意行为的有力武器。从逻辑上说可能是兔子吸收掉所有不好的运气，所以放弃它的脚，从而释放他们余下的好运气，可以平衡能力，提高赌徒的信心。

　　吹骰子

　　解释吹在掷骰子游戏中的作用是比较难的。骰子背后存在着什么这更是难以解释。这种做法很可能出现在早于现代赌场的消毒环境，并可以追溯到一个时代的骰子游戏开始之时，在尘土飞扬的战场上，士兵们百无聊赖的玩骰子游戏，骰子平衡前滚翻。另一个值得探讨的可能性是骰子玩家的疯狂。

　　妇女

　　通过的不确定性和可能面临的运气不好的感觉所困扰的年龄段的男性，会采取最简单的路线，并责怪他们至少能够理解的在那些环境中存在的女性。

　　因此，在美联储火山，妇女在节日中要牺牲或者干脆被放在在明火上烤。虽然今天对待妇女还不算是一种野蛮的行为，但是许多男性赌徒仍然感受到他们的脊柱寒意，当一个女人自己在赌台的席位上的时候。

　　患有女性恐惧症当中最有名的赌徒是扑克传奇人物Doyle Brunson，公开说明他迷信妇女在现金游戏中的影响，在他的扑克圣经《超级系统的恐惧》中写道。

　　服装

　　在迷信中，最迷信的赌徒经常针对自己的服装，认为这是运气不好的可能来源。 被EM玩家称为“世界最好的无限额玩家”的菲尔Hellmuth，就是这样一个迷信的赌徒。他认为他的衣服的颜色，对他的命运有直接影响。因此，他拒绝穿白色之类的衣服打扑克游戏。

　　数字

　　对于这个想法，某些电话号码具有神秘的属性可以追溯到几千年前，最有可能由赌徒一直保持并在千年来一直存活着。今天，对于某些赌徒来说某些电话号码是幸运的可能是最常见的迷信，许多相信赌徒相信某些数字或其组合，有特殊的药性。

　　货币

　　虽然有可能连接关于金钱与数字有关的的迷信，事实上是一个将永远斗争解释如何赌徒可不怕他们追求的对象。

　　然而，赌博迷信，显然无国界，很多赌徒拒绝采取特定面额支付。一个著名的例子是1983年世界系列扑克赢家，汤姆麦克沃伊，而打扑克时拒绝触摸50元纸币。

　　译文

　　When you're in the habit of betting thousands of dollars on the outcome of a single roll of dice, turn of the wheel or turn of the cards, the concept of superstition can take on a whole new meaning – and frequently does. Here are just a few of the most famous and enduring gamblers' superstitions:

　　Rabbit's Foot

　　A rabbit's foot has long been regarded as a potent weapon against any potentially malicious behaviour by the forces of fate. The logic is probably that the rabbit absorbs all available bad luck in relinquishing its foot, thereby freeing gamblers to proceed with confidence in their ability to take on the odds with the balance of good luck remaining.

　　Dice Blowing

　　Explaining the rationale behind blowing on dice during games of craps is somewhat more difficult to explain. The practice probably predates the sanitised environments of modern casinos, and dates back to an era when dice games were played on dusty battle fields by bored soldiers, who blew on dice to balance them before the roll. Another possibility worth exploring is that craps players are insane.

　　Women

　　Through the ages men plagued by a sense of uncertainty and of facing possible bad luck would take the easiest available route, and blame those presences in the environment which they were least capable of understanding – women.

　　As a result women were fed to volcanoes, sacrificed at feasts or simply toasted on open flames. While treatment of women is far less barbaric today, many male gamblers still get a chill up their spine when a woman seats herself at a gaming table.

　　Amongst the most famous gamblers suffering from female-phobia is poker legend Doyle Brunson, who openly wrote of his superstitious fear of women at cash games in his poker bible, Super system.

　　Clothing

　　In a nod to the obsessive-compulsive roots of superstitions, the most superstitious gamblers frequently target items of their own clothing as possible sources of bad luck. The self-proclaimed “best no-limit hold 'em player in the world”， Phil Hellmuth, is one such superstitious gambler, who believes that the colour of his clothing has a direct impact on his fortunes. He therefore refuses to wear anything white at poker games.

　　Numbers

　　The idea that certain numbers possess mystical properties dates back thousands of years, and has most likely been kept alive by gamblers during the intervening millennia. Today the belief that certain numbers are lucky is probably the most common gamblers superstition, with many believing that certain numbers or combinations thereof have special potency.

　　Money

　　While it might be possible to connect superstitions regarding money to those concerned with numbers, the fact of the matter is that one will always struggle to explain how gamblers can be afraid of the very object of their pursuit.

　　Gambling superstition, however, apparently knows no bounds, with many gamblers refusing to take payouts in specific denominations. One famous example is 1983 World Series of Poker winner, Tom McEvoy, who refused to touch 50-dollar notes while playing poker.