Unless I have my math wrong, the odds (probability) that you can flip a coin and have it land heads 10 times in a row is 1/1024. Not very probable. If someone flipped a coin 9 times and got heads each time, you could safely bet (with 1/1024 odds) that the next flip will be tails.
There are only 2 possible outcomes when it comes to flipping a coin, and you must multiply that by the amount of occurances you're looking to calculate.
2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 = 1024
I think the casino might have rigged their roulette because the chances of getting 14 blacks in a row (and it WAS 14 blacks in a row), is 1/16384.
Of course, that doesn't account for the 0/00 results, but even if you count those slots, it won't skew results THAT much. Either way, odds of getting 14 black in a row are just... not very likely at all and for that to have happened was just utterly insane. You should've seen the people at that table with their jaws dropped. So much money was placed on "red" after the 10th black (and was lost) it wasn't even funny.
For it to have hit 14 black in a row... at the 10th time it was a 1/1024 shot. It passed. The 11th time, odds were 2048. 12th time: 4096.
I have a hard time believing that table wasn't rigged after doing the statistics on these results (again, 0/00 not counted, but won't skew results by that much)
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Last edited by Stompy; 07-27-2004 at 06:23 PM..
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