The answer is yes. Here’s how. The most obvious way to play roulette is to choose the most important number, such as 10:20 or 5:20 and choose a number less than, say, 5. In the example shown, you’ll notice that the 5 has a high chance of winning, and a high chance of losing. (It’s […]
The answer is a simple one, but it takes some understanding of mathematics. What we think we learn in calculus is just one method of expressing a certain relationship—all the others, and there are many more, do not matter. (For instance, I have no real understanding of a differential equation so I never learn it […]
The average person loses approximately $25,000 a year to gambling. On a good day, one person in the United States loses nearly as much as the bottom 40% of the population combined. This graph shows how much the bottom 40% of Americans lost by the end of 2013 for their lifetime. If you have questions […]
As we mentioned earlier, China and India are expected to lose $2 trillion every year by 2050. These two countries’ gambling losses may put their economies at risk. What are some countries that gamble the most? According to the Gambling Risk Index, the top 25 countries with the highest gambling losses are: #27: Belgium #32: […]
Yes, they do. Some have rigged machines so that the same number of choices is offered on each roll; other systems only offer one of each on each gamble. Yet others make it easy for you to win your roulette, by offering only the number of rolls needed to select your best outcome. For a […]
There is some controversy about this question. The first way to answer the question is to see if you are at a higher risk of getting hit by a bus. This is done by asking whether you have ever been hit by a bus and if you have ever been badly hurt or killed. It […]
Poker. It’s not even close, the probability of it being done is so low that almost any intelligent person, not the one who gets the big win, would immediately accept the game. Even worse, a blind dealer would bet just to be ahead. That said, every day someone who gets the big win will come […]
Well yes, it is, and the results are pretty clear,” he added. He described the recent anti-Moscow unrest across eastern Ukraine as an “escalation” and said that the west should put pressure on Russia to show some respect for a sovereignty and independence “guaranteed by international law”. However, he warned that Kiev was increasingly becoming […]
Yes, although some of the players who win the most, by an equal or greater margin, are also the biggest cheaters, especially those who bet on a number of different games of chance or, often, multiple games of chance during the same session. And it is important to note that cheating can also occur if […]
The answer has always been: it’s a lot harder than it looks. In a 2008 New York Times Magazine essay that I wrote on roulette, I detailed an experiment I ran to measure how quickly people learned the rules. I put an American woman and a British man on roulette. I had the woman play […]