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LVA Question of the Day - 21 APR 2011

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LVA Question of the Day - 21 APR 2011

Q: TV, movies, and books have often depicted someone on a
hot roll at roulette; winning single number bets. Is there
any documentation of a record for successive single number
bets won in roulette?

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Slight booboo. It states that: Scoblete recounts how Barney Vinson, Huntington Press author and long-time dealer at Caesars Palace, witnessed the number 7 come up six times in a row at Caesars' roulette wheel #211 on July 14, 2000. The odds of that happening are three billion to one.

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They forgot the "first ones free" rule of probability. The Real chance is: 79,235,168 to one. Or a one in 80 million.

To be a one in 3 billion event, they would have had to state that they were trying to roll a seven before the first spin.

~FK

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I was just reading that LVA QOD and about the roulette ball bouncing off the chandelier, etc., and it reminded me of something that happened to me once, although not quite as spectacular. I was about 18 years old, sitting at a table, playing gin with someone, while two guys were not far away playing at a pool table. The guy's shot flew off the pool table, through the air, hit me in the face and bounced off of my jaw, and into my shirt pocket. So help me God that's true. I stood up, and everyone ducked for cover figuring I was going to go nuts on someone, but I knew it was an accident and just took the ball out of my pocket and said "good shot" and placed it back on the pool table. Boy that hurt, but nothing broke, and I still have my original teeth.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@...> wrote:

Slight booboo. It states that: Scoblete recounts how Barney Vinson, Huntington Press author and long-time dealer at Caesars Palace, witnessed the number 7 come up six times in a row at Caesars' roulette wheel #211 on July 14, 2000. The odds of that happening are three billion to one.