11c. Re: Closest 50/50 bet in a casino? There might be a good comp play h
Posted by: "Dennis Salguero" salguero@gmail.com
Date: Thu Jun 4, 2009 5:18 pm ((PDT))No, no, you guys are not understanding this properly. I can play BOTH red &
black on the SAME spin and get points on all my "coin in". Even with double
zero, playing both sides of black/red can't be an edge of 5.26%
Can too. Even with my statistical alzheimer's I remember enough to do this one.
18 red numbers, 18 black numbers, 2 zeroes, 38 possibilities, you lose both red and black 2/38 times = 0.0526 = 5.26%, break even the rest of the time. There are worse bets in roulette (I don't know what they are because I don't play), but no combination of bets will reduce the house edge to less than 5.26%. Single zero wheel, cut the house edge approx. in half.
Doesn't matter if you bet only red, only black, or both, odds are the same (except by betting both you guarantee you never win anything even if you're lucky and never hit a zero - of course, you also guarantee you never lose anything UNLESS you hit a zero -- but the point is, the zeroes are on the wheel and you'll hit one or the other 5.26% of the time, long term).
--BG
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