Posted on 08/07/2011 7:30:35 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
First, she won $5.4 million, then a decade later, she won $2 million, then two years later $3 million and finally, in the spring of 2008, she hit a $10 million jackpot.
The odds of this has been calculated at one in eighteen septillion and luck like this could only come once every quadrillion years.
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A professor at the Institute for the Study of Gambling & Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno, told Mr Rich: 'When something this unlikely happens in a casino, you arrest ‘em first and ask questions later.'
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Thank you. That was my first thought. But “moderately”?
They may not have arrest powers, but Frankie, Rocco, and "The Neck" will make sure you spend a little quality time on a long drive in the desert, just you, them, and a 34 ounce Louisville slugger...;)
He originally thought he would win 32.6% of the prizes. He said he’d have to figure out what happened.
“It’s moderately suspicious that 3 winning scratchoff tickets were shipped to the same small minimart.”
Actually, three different million dollar scratch tickets were won at a little convenience store a half mile from me over a period of about 3 years.
It does happen.
Exactly.
If the administrators of the lottery are inept and incompetent, it's their crime.
Using math is not illegal, even though Hussein's entire regime seems to be totally unfamiliar with it.
Cheating a casino is a crime in Nevada. They don't ask such people to leave. They call the police. (The ones they ask to leave are mostly blackjack players who utilize winning strategies, but are not cheating.)
ML/NJ
Counting cards in Vegas casinos isn't illegal, and it's not even cheating. The casinos can choose who they will allow to gamble, and they only want to allow people in who can't even or even beat the odds.
Mark
Geesh, don’t let Obama read words like “quadrillion and septillion”!
That describes evolution and the missing links.
You're right, they do not have "arrest" powers. However, they DO have "detention" powers, just like a store security guard can detain a shoplifting suspect, who can then be turned over to the police to be arrested.
Mark
He had cool pajamas
Mark
Maybe this woman was an heiress and spent $50M on scratch-off tickets — just to get her name in the paper every couple of years.
I saw an article once in a Las Vegas newspaper about a guy who was a card counter, which is legal.
A casino didn’t like what he was doing, so the casino security guards, some of whom were moonlighting cops, dragged him into a back room. They searched him, even removed his pants. A picture of him sitting handcuffed in a chair in his boxers accompanied the article. After interrogating him, they let him go, and banned him from the casino. Las Vegas Metro showed up during all this, but they did nothing to help the man. He sued, but I’m not sure if he won his case.
Exactly.
The gambler fallacy is that somehow the next event will be influenced by the last.
Stats are history, not prophecy.
When I computerized a customer back in the early 80’s we tracked each batch of scratcher tickets. You would pay say $60 bucks for 100 tickets where there would be $35 of instant winners in each batch ($5 was the store profit). The store would report sold tickets and instant winners. Had I been so inclined I could tell you which stores had the greatest chance of selling an instant winner. I’m sure the store managers had figured this out too.
I think he’s probably a Las Vegas hitman called “The Professor.” He teaches classes in “gaming” at the “university.” wink, wink
Say no more
That is what it sounds like...
She won three of her wins off of scratch-off tickets from the same convenience store in Texas.
There is NO way that the process is random. There is, at a minimum, a serious flaw in how Texas distributes its scratch-off games. There is a possibility of a serious flaw in the Texas lottery security. There is a possibility of a some serious insider information.
But there is no way that the simple possesion of a thorough knowledge of statistics would help you win scratch-off games that are ran fairly and randomly.
Here’s a hint: she is a Las Vegas resident. Why is she buying scratch off games in Texas?
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