my friend has been playing a lot of online roulette, and has a reasonable method to ensure not going bust...

however, today he played using his system, and got screwed.

the ball landed on black 26 times in a row...

how statistically unlikely this is I don't know, I would imaging 38x38x38.. 26 times.

question: is this site scamming it, or is this a reasonable variance?
i am not a maths man, however this seemed soooo dodgy to me.

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Wow! That does seem a little fishy.

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Yea I agree. Something smells a bit fishy... 26 times on black??
Probability wise it's impossible.

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50 / 50 chance on each spin though. The last one doesn't count, each spin is seperate.

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Well, you're right that it's a new set of odds with every spin of the roulette wheel, but it still seems iffy. Imagine flipping a coin. It's certainly 50/50 on whether it lands on heads or tails. But if someone flipped a coin 26 times and it landed on heads every time, you might start to suspect a double-sided coin at some point.

By it's very nature, 50/50 would imply that it lands on red half the time and black the other half. This sounds more like 100/0.

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