Their luck being inversely proportionate to their need, they always lose. Sera is disturbed when they appear, and turns away, not from the hopelessness of their situation, which they take far too seriously, but from the intensity of their suffering, which will forever make them victims in their own minds.
So this sentence is highlight more than 20 times by other kindle readers. Why? I don't find it particularily important to the story. Perhaps I am wrong. It is about the class of gambler that bets more than they can afford to lose and always lose it and how Sera is disturbed by this, as she is a recreational player who never bets what she can't affort to lose and knows she ultimately WILL lose it, and is ok with that as it is in fact her payment for her recreation no different than the admission price of a movie - an exchange of money for fun. In a way, this is like tricking that she likes in its a pure exchange, a transaction, sex for money.
