Showing posts with label win-loss pattern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label win-loss pattern. Show all posts
Thursday, April 30, 2009

"Just who are you preaching to? Even if your ideas about beating the house edge made sense (and they don't), no one could afford to use them!"

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_ This is a criticism I hear from time to time, and my only answer to it is that making money is never cheap, except in everyone's dream...
Friday, April 10, 2009

The conventional wisdom says a million wins don't matter and losses are all that counts. True, but false at the same time!

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_ A mathematician arguing for the YCW (you can't win) philosophy will tell you with a straight face that progressive betting can never b...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

There's no escaping the fact that math rules in the casino. And it's also easy to see that mathematics does not rule out progressive betting.

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_ The consistent success of target betting or any method that breaks the fixed or random mold is assured by the fact that outcomes in games ...
Monday, March 30, 2009

The million-dollar question: Is damage control just another gambler's fallacy, or can ruin be avoided intuitively?

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_ Human intuition or decision making is the critical element that the You Can't Win brigade omits from the runaway simulations they use...
Friday, March 13, 2009

When the dealer keeps beating your 19+ hands, should you sit still and suck it up, or get the hell out of there?

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_ Your average academic mythemaniac has a simple answer: Save on shoe leather and stay where you are, because running away can't affect ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Waiting for the other shoe to drop could take a lifetime (and it may never happen at all!)

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_ The assumption that mythematicians like to cling on to and batter us about the head with is that if you are certain to lose more bets than...