Expert gamblers ‘enjoy numbers and set emotion aside’

AN EXPERT gambler is likely to enjoy numbers, be a good decision-maker who is adept at judging risk and unlikely to be anyway arrogant, according to a UCC academic.

Dr Dylan Evans is a behavioural scientist at the Department of Medicine and is fascinated with risk-taking. In his work, he is attempting to gauge what motivates people to take risk and what makes certain people particularly proficient at risk-taking.

Dr Evans believes that successful gamblers – “those rare people who manage consistently to profit by making informed bets, judge risk in a different way to most other men and women” – display a group of traits that aren’t found in other people.