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Anyway here I am, back again, so good news for those who like these ramblings and bad news for those who donʼt but then those who donʼt like them wonʼt be reading them anyway, so welcome back friends.
The reason I mention this is that my mates and I were discussing a way to beat the roulette table the other night, which of course is impossible. One of the standard ways that gamblers think they can beat the roulette table is by betting on red which pays even money. For those of you not into all this, it means if you put £1 on red and a red number comes up then you are paid out £2, one being the £1 you put on, plus the £1 profit.
So go to a casino by all means, as itʼs quite fun and they bring you sandwiches and coffee - they can afford it - but just take £20 or whatever you can afford and if you end up with £40 in your pocket then go home and if you lose it, then go home. Itʼs just a bit of fun.
Now hereʼs an interesting fact. Bear with me on this, as it is worth it if you donʼt know so, here goes.
Now a standard procedure for dim wits is to assume that as only black or red can come up in the end they will win as itʼs an even chance and in the end red must come up. Indeed that is true, but they forget two things. The first is that there is the number 0 on the table which is neither red nor black, which you lose on unless you have a bet on it, and so changes the odds. Not a lot you may think, but it does. The other thing they forget is my old chessboard argument. If you keep doubling up, you donʼt need to go anywhere near 64 times to get into problems, and say you start with £1, it is only 6 losing spins in a row that would have you down by £63, and needing to put £64 on the next spin in order to win. And if it wins what will you win? - £1 in
What you will notice if you do go is that everyone is very friendly, and there are no clocks. Having no clocks is a standard way to get people to forget about the time and thus stay longer.
There are 64 squares on a chessboard. Get a bag of rice and take 1 grain and put it on the first square. Then double that by putting 2 grains of rice on the second square. Then double that and put 4 grains on the third square and then double that and put 8 on the fourth square, and so on and so forth. You just keep doubling up the number of grains of rice you put on the next square. Actually you wonʼt get that far with one standard bag of rice. To cut a long story short, by the time you get to the 64th square, you would need 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice, weighing 461,168,602,000 tons, which would
Talking of clocks. .....oh no, I wonʼt get onto the Floral Clock this month, as locally the more interesting news is that I sent a request under the Freedom of Information Act, to the Highways Authority, for them to supply me with all of the details of every meeting and decision over the wrongly painted yellow lines at the bottom of Yardley Road four years ago. The week after that, a little man from the council turned up with a blow torch and burned off the offending yellow lines. Coincidence? Perhaps, but to end in gambling terms I would say this coincidence was a possibility, but not a probability.
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be a heap of rice larger than Mount Everest profit. You will only ever win your initial stake and trickier to climb. This is 1,000 times more in profit with this method.
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than the global annual production of rice in 2010. I know youʼre not going to believe me, so do try it as I believe that rice is on special offer in the Co-Op.
A very wise man (a bookmaker in fact) once told me that the best way to double your money in a casino is to fold it in half and stick it in your back pocket.
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