Unbelievable
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blackjacktilt
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Just did, thanks. :grin:
Flash,
All I can tell you is that I was playing BJ very close to the roulette table and the dealer told the players to look at the display of the roulette table and I could read the seven ocurrences of the 29. We kept talking about this all the afternoon. If it was an error of the display I can't tell you but I saw it, for sure, and the same goes for all the people at the BJ table.
Regards,
BJFan
London Colin
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This kind of thing always causes me to question my understanding, but surely seven 29s is no less likely than any other sequence of seven numbers? The unlikely thing would be to predict it ahead of time.
21gunsalute
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So much for cover.
Exactly my thinking. Someone yelling at crazy "Look at the screen! there is 16, 31, 3, 34, 33, 27, 9. How unlikely is that ?" - and you would think he turned mental.
the odds of a # landing up 7 times in a row is 1 in 2.5 billion
37 ^ 6 since it's a a single 0 wheel. (remember, the first time the # landed doesn't count, because that could be any #, then that same # needs to repeat 6 more times)
So the odds of witnessing something like this is about 15 times less likely then winning the mega millions with a single lottery ticket.
I'm sure it's happened, whether the OP is lying about it or not I obviously can't say (nor do I really care)
37 ^ 6 since it's a a single 0 wheel. (remember, the first time the # landed doesn't count, because that could be any #, then that same # needs to repeat 6 more times)
So the odds of witnessing something like this is about 15 times less likely then winning the mega millions with a single lottery ticket.
I'm sure it's happened, whether the OP is lying about it or not I obviously can't say (nor do I really care)
Pit15,
Why would I lie? It's not my style and I can't figure out what can I get from doing this.
Next time I'll ask the crew from the casino if the event ocurred in the same way the display showed.
BJFan
This is so wrong, because you didn't witness this by yourself - someone else pointed this out to you to watch. That is a major difference people often neglect.
If you spend an hour in the casino, there will be hundreds of roulette rolls in that time you didn't notice. Your chance of someone pointing out that streak shrinks from "1 in 2.5 billion" down to "1 in 25 million".
If you spend 1000 hours a year in a casino, that will be "1 in 25,000" per year.
On this board, if there are 100 people who would post such non-sense, it only takes "1 in 250" to observe this message on this board (per year!).
It is nothing THAT unlikely to read it here on the board. Since there is a ridiculous high number of such sequences, it doesn't surprise me to read it up here.
Note the "single lottery ticket" comment. The odds are for viewing a single series of spins. Of course the real odds are a bit higher since when it does end up happening it draws a ton of attention.
BJFan, I never said you lied about it, someone else was commenting how it's BS, so I'm just saying there's no way for me (or anyone who wasn't there) to verify whether you did or didn't actually see this happen. Believe it or not a ton of people do come on here to make stuff up. Just look at the voodoo strategies board, it's full of made up BS. (I only go there to heckle people for their dumb sistems)
???
I don't see why the same number in a row is any more unbelievable than any other sequence of numbers.
Seeing 29,29,29,29,29,29,29 is just is likely, or "unlikely", as 6,7,2,5,4,23,30, which I may have happened to see once...
At any given moment looking at a roulette history the chance of that specific set of 7 numbers is 1 in whatever billion.
I don't see why the same number in a row is any more unbelievable than any other sequence of numbers.
Seeing 29,29,29,29,29,29,29 is just is likely, or "unlikely", as 6,7,2,5,4,23,30, which I may have happened to see once...
At any given moment looking at a roulette history the chance of that specific set of 7 numbers is 1 in whatever billion.
The Chaperone
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Assuming a 00 wheel, the odds are 1 in 3,010,936,384 which is 38^6. It is possible with the huge sample of spins (everyone in a casino when something like this happens would know about it) and the large sample of forum posters, but I would still say some type of display malfunction or manipulation by the dealer would be a big favorite. If the table is empty the dealer could be playing games with the wheel or even just putting the ball in 29 over and over again. Maybe the dealer did it 5 times before someone came up to play and then the next two spins were randomly also 29s and the onlookers went crazy. Who knows...
It's doubtful the dealer was playing around with it.
Most casinos are very strict with what dealers do when there's no players at the table. A dealer dropping the ball into a certain number over and over at any of the places I go to would get in some serious **** for that.
A display malfunction is certainly a possibility though.
aslan
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A guy told me that he hit the same number 8 times in a row. I guess, like Flash, I believe he was probably lying, or "embellishing" the truth, but I guess anything is possible. But if these things do happen, what are the odds of meeting the person it happened to? It makes it seem doubly doubtful.
Just like two months ago when the floor supervisor told us that this guy hit the roulette number with $100 "four or five" times in a row. See, even from the very first reporting of it there is a question, "Was it four or was it five?" The one part that I do believe was that he bought in for $400 and cashed out for $126,000 between his blackjack and his roulette play. The floor supervisor has direct access to this data. But I wonder, too, if the guy hit four or five in a row, or hit four or five out of several more attempts. Embellishments have a way of quickly escalating.
Just like two months ago when the floor supervisor told us that this guy hit the roulette number with $100 "four or five" times in a row. See, even from the very first reporting of it there is a question, "Was it four or was it five?" The one part that I do believe was that he bought in for $400 and cashed out for $126,000 between his blackjack and his roulette play. The floor supervisor has direct access to this data. But I wonder, too, if the guy hit four or five in a row, or hit four or five out of several more attempts. Embellishments have a way of quickly escalating.