February 26th, 2012 at 5:08:30 PM
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So I was just wondering out of curiousity, is there anywhere I could find out various types of documented records or highly unlikely events. Like black hits on roulette 50x in a row. Or a player gets blackjack 15 hands in a row. Or player wins 100 hands in a row, things like that? I know there's documented cases of extremely long rolls in craps, like that Demarco (was that her name) lady on the east coast that rolled for a couple hours.
February 26th, 2012 at 6:03:33 PM
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Here is the documented record for roulette...
This is the source of the so-called Monte Carlo Fallacy
On August 18, 1913, at the casino in Monte Carlo, black came up a record twenty-six times in succession [in roulette]. … [There] was a near-panicky rush to bet on red, beginning about the time black had come up a phenomenal fifteen times. In application of the maturity [of the chances] doctrine, players doubled and tripled their stakes, this doctrine leading them to believe after black came up the twentieth time that there was not a chance in a million of another repeat. In the end the unusual run enriched the Casino by some millions of francs.
And craps...
May 23, 2009, Pat DeMauro bought into a craps game for $100 Saturday night and held the dice for four hours and 18 minutes. She threw the dice 154 times before she finally “sevened out,” Borgata officials said Sunday. The previous record for longest craps roll was held by Stanley Fujitake, of Honolulu, at 3 hours and 6 minutes, and it took place May 28, 1989, at the California Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
And blackjack...
May 12th, 2011
A mysterious high-stakes gambler has single-handedly caused the Tropicana Casino’s (AC) April revenue to drop by 20% after winning a record $5.8 million at the blackjack tables.
This is the source of the so-called Monte Carlo Fallacy
On August 18, 1913, at the casino in Monte Carlo, black came up a record twenty-six times in succession [in roulette]. … [There] was a near-panicky rush to bet on red, beginning about the time black had come up a phenomenal fifteen times. In application of the maturity [of the chances] doctrine, players doubled and tripled their stakes, this doctrine leading them to believe after black came up the twentieth time that there was not a chance in a million of another repeat. In the end the unusual run enriched the Casino by some millions of francs.
And craps...
May 23, 2009, Pat DeMauro bought into a craps game for $100 Saturday night and held the dice for four hours and 18 minutes. She threw the dice 154 times before she finally “sevened out,” Borgata officials said Sunday. The previous record for longest craps roll was held by Stanley Fujitake, of Honolulu, at 3 hours and 6 minutes, and it took place May 28, 1989, at the California Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
And blackjack...
May 12th, 2011
A mysterious high-stakes gambler has single-handedly caused the Tropicana Casino’s (AC) April revenue to drop by 20% after winning a record $5.8 million at the blackjack tables.
In a bet, there is a fool and a thief.
- Proverb.