[ WP ] A new casino has opened that allows players to gamble years of their life . Some find immortality ; others , a grim fate .

You realize that everyday, you're making a huge gamble. When you run out that door in the morning, there's a good chance that a car will run you over. Or when you brush your teeth. Who knows, that long-awaited 8.2 earthquake could strike and the toothbrush could slip and jab right through—never mind. You get it. It's a gamble. 
 
 Life itself a casino, where you gamble life itself. Enter this casino. Like opening your mind to a new idea, the doors to this gambling arena now too are opened. But you remember that *the house always wins. * *Always. * It's just a fact. No matter what, you can hear the grains in hourglass running. I, this stranger of an author sitting next to you at this poker table, have stolen a few precious minutes of your time. I've also lost quite a few of mine, spinning this tale and trying to paint this picture of a casino floor that smells like new playing cards and stale cigarettes. 
 
 The next question I offer is the most important one. You've already been trying to answer it for a long time. As a kid, you're told you'll have to answer it `` when you're older.'' And suddenly you graduate from school and blindly shout out the first thing that comes to mind. Men who enter their midlife crisis furiously erase and scramble as if bubbling in a last minute answer ( and of course, they will inevitably guess C and be wrong — how cliche? ). So, reader. Out of all these games in this fine establishment, each differing in risk, difficulty and reward: *which table do you choose? *
