Selkie Love wrote:32 losses in a row, most with one ticket bought, some with 50% of them bought.
So glad I got myself banned from blink :D
So, what kind of cheating were you doing to get yourself banned? You do know Blink won't ban you on request, right?
Is that sour grapes I smell coming from your post?
lesseee here... 32 losses.... hmmm... most with one ticket... dunno how many "most" really is, so give him the benefit of the doubt, let's say most equals 20, so that means 12 would be 50% or maybe less and he doesn't give us any idea if they are all 8 ticket or 16 ticket or a mix. but because he is such a doubtful guy, he gets that benefit again.
So, the 20 single ticket losses in 8 ticket games would mean 140 losing tickets and 20 winning tickets - that means 2 in 14 and by damn that means 1 in 7! He musta believed that crap some loser once told him about the "Law" of averages. Law is not a squishy word. Theory is really squishy. So the people who understand statistics named it the "Theory" of regression toward the mean. That basically means that given "some number" of random drawings, coin tosses, or jelly on one side of the bread drops - all possible outcomes will work their way back toward (careful here not to misunderstand reach, but only move toward) the same occurences as every other number, coin side, or jellied side. And the "some number" could be infinity. If it could be predicted, it would not be gambling. Yes, you could toss a coin 5000 times and not come up with an equal number of heads and tails. Unlikely the difference would be great, but it certainly is within the realm of actual trials to have been greater than 120. And because those stupid experiments are always done by graduate students who haven't learned enough about statistics to be taking the classes on their schedule so a professor gives them the assignment, they are probably not good at boring repetitive tasks and often just tell their professor they did it and fudge the numbers - you kinow, cheat.... Which is kind of ironic as failing to be bright enough to understand something as simple as probability theoriy often leads a person to an occupation which involves boring repetitive tasks.
The remaining 12 then would be losing at a 50% chance. Do you have any idea how many people have gone broke with real money thinking it was impossible to lose more than 12 times with a 50% chance of winning? Hell, I don't either. But when you get old enough to go into a real casino, just stand around and count them. Be sure not to wear any shoes or socks, because the number will be over 10 if you spend a couple of hours doing it.
I'll just bet you are not the only one who is glad you "got" yourself banned. And I don't really give a damn how you got caught cheating, or how you were cheating, so please, don't bore me any more than you already have. And I certainly hope I have bored you, too. Because I was replying to your quote and anyone else who read this far and got bored, well then, maybe they need to look at their ability to discern, and I don't give a damn if they are bored either. So, here's a toast to Blocks all around!
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