Schüll quotes a gambler named Sharon who no longer looks at the cards she is dealt in video poker. “You reach an extreme point where you don’t even delude yourself that you’re in control of anything but strapping yourself into a machine and staying there until you lose … All that stuff that draws you in the beginning—the screen, the choice, the decisions, the skill—is stripped away, and you accept the certainty of chance: the proof is the zero at the end.”13
