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  2. Labouchère system - Wikipedia

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    x = Number of wins y = Number of losses z = Numbers on original list When: x + z ≤ y * 2 The system has failed, and all numbers on the line are crossed completely out. Given an infinite line, the Labouchère System when played by the player requires a winning percentage of at least 33.34% to complete.

  3. Roulette - Wikipedia

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    Croupier's rake pushing chips across a roulette layout. When a winning number and color is determined by the roulette wheel, the dealer will place a marker, also known as a dolly, on that number on the roulette table layout. When the dolly is on the table, no players may place bets, collect bets or remove any bets from the table.

  4. Derren Brown: The Events - Wikipedia

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    After the draw, Brown wrote the results on a piece of card prior to turning the white balls around, facing the camera, to reveal that both the numbers on the balls and the numbers on the card were the same. The winning numbers were: 2, 11, 23, 28, 35 and 39. The bonus was number 15, however, his predictions did not include the bonus ball.

  5. Martingale (betting system) - Wikipedia

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    Let q be the probability of losing (e.g. for American double-zero roulette, it is 20/38 for a bet on black or red). Let B be the amount of the initial bet. Let n be the finite number of bets the gambler can afford to lose. The probability that the gambler will lose all n bets is q n. When all bets lose, the total loss is

  6. Game of chance - Wikipedia

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    Roulette is a game of pure chance; no strategy can give players advantages, the outcome is determined purely by which numbered pocket a ball randomly falls into. A game of chance is in contrast with a game of skill. It is a game whose outcome is strongly influenced by some randomizing device.

  7. Advantage gambling - Wikipedia

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    Current versions of Deuces Wild video poker are played exactly the same as the original "full pay" version as far as how the game is played; they just offer smaller payouts for winning hands compared to the "full pay" version, making the house edge against a perfect player just slightly over 0%, meaning even a player who plays perfectly will ...

  8. List of Derren Brown shows - Wikipedia

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    Number predictions – an audience member was told to contact someone on a phone (always a man) and ask various questions with the hope of the participant saying numbers which Brown had already written on a whiteboard. In reality, the person on the phone was made to say the serial number of a ten-pound note given to the audience member.

  9. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.