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Old 08-26-2005, 12:54 PM
PairTheBoard PairTheBoard is offline
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Default Re: Am I stupid? I can\'t fit these two concepts into any type of harmo

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"If you play for an infinite lenght of time, all possible finite runs of cards will be dealt an infinite number of times. Since you will always have an finite number of chips, you will have to run into a run of cards which will break you."

Wrong

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Why?

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What will happen with non-zero probability is that for any long bad streak you want to identify, it will always happen when your bankroll has grown large enough to sustain it.

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