Re: Negreanu\'s Folly?
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This is not correct. And its quite clear to anyone who has ever studied calculus. But there is no such thing as an infinite bankroll anyway, so most of this talk is in mathematical fantasy land that makes no sense.
Suppose you have a 10,000 unit bankroll, and you are playing against someone who has an infinite bankroll. You roll a fair dice, and he pays you even money every time you don't roll a 6. The odds that you ever go bust in this game are incredibly slim. This is not to say you won't ever go on a 10,000 unit downswing. But the odds that you go on one before you win significantly more than 10,000 additional units is less. It's more or less a limit taken to infinity.
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Vince's situation was NL.. and his stack always covered DN's..
but it was a stupid scenario, because Inifite can't go broke.. much more interesting would be if robot had like 100m, and DN had 10k etc etc but that's for the probability forum.
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