a1s wrote:@guest.
The Wikipedia article does not support your view ... here: http://www.heretical.com/pound/dollar.html
Do you read your own links? It says right there that the game is not rational, "best time is during a party when ... the propensity to calculate does not settle in" and that the game models addiction (which is anything but rational.) The winning move is still not to play (well, ok, this part it doesn't say, but it's implied).