how do they calculate how many points you win or lose?

[BentSaetherBANNED]

and who is doing all the calculating?
must be a tedious task


(I guess each player contributes 2% of his points total to a jackpot, winner takes all... am I right?)

 

[AuraCraft]

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
...
...you'll be a Man, my son!

- Kipling

I don't know that Kipling dude but it sounds like he was a heavy gambler Is this motto how he tried to keep the trait in the family?

 

[Cagey]

I can't really believe that anyone doesn't know who Rudyard Kipling was, but on the outside chance that you're not being ironic here's a bio:

http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm

and the full poem quoted

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/