A Gambler Who Beat Roulette

Post by arsenide » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 10:32 PM UTC

marktangotango wrote: post #87

llamataboot wrote: post #77

In a previous life as an advantage gambler (there are always edges somewhere, but you better know you actually have one and know why you know and your risk of ruin etc), I would say that "how can we keep exploiting this below the radar" is as common of a discussion topic as "what is there to exploit" Card counting is a perfect example - you absolutely can count cards in the right type of blackjack, and you absolutely…

I'll post this here if anyone has noticed something similar. There's a state lotto game that I'm convinced uses at least two different sets of balls, and one set has a distinct weight imbalance such that draws using the set have a bias. A bias such that picking numbers with a 15-20 number gap would have significantly better odds of winning. I'm not a statistician though and analyzing historic draws is beyond my abili…

I’m curious about this. Do you have a dataset? I’d be happy to take a look.

Post by nessus42 » Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 3:21 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #120

nessus42 wrote: post #90

My uncle was a professional gambler and did well at it. At first he counted cards playing Blackjack, but eventually was banned from most casinos where it was actually possible to win at Blackjack. (Casinos in Atlantic City aren't allowed to ban card counters, so they use huge decks and shuffle frequently to make winning via card counting infeasible.) He mostly switched at some point to betting on sports. He arbitrage…

Had probably read Dr. Z's guide to winning at the track

It's likely he did, since he read just about anything reputable related to gambling. But he was doing this before Dr. Z's was published.

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