The dice and the roulette wheel, along with the stock market and the bond market, are natural laboratories for the study of risk because they lend themselves so readily to quantification;
The problem with this is that the stock market is not a confined environment. Casinos regulate the environment and variables greatly. As much as possible. But the bounds of Earth are it's atmosphere, neighboring planets, and the sun. If we look far enough into the long tail, rogue comets and alien life present themselves as potentials.
