He felt the table was having a run of bad luck, but he knew. Gronevelt would never accept that explanation. Gronevelt believed that the house could not lose over the long run, that the laws of percentage were not subject to chance. As gamblers believed mystically in their luck so Gronevelt believed in percentages.

Fools Die: A Novel, Chapter 17 (pp. 187-188), G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1978