| But the really strange day was our last of the trip. We had about four hours before our plane was to leave, and we went up to the north end of the Strip to kill some time. I hadn't played any blackjack, because $5 a hand was a little rich for me, but at Silver City I could play $2 blackjack. After about 30 minutes, I had won $20. My wife was getting antsy--she wanted to take all that money home--so when we left Silver City and I headed up the Strip instead of to the parking lot, she said, "Where are you going?" I said, "Just one more stop, then we can go to the airport," and we walked to the Riviera. At the Riveria, I bought $20 in dollar tokens. I'd heard the dollars paid more than the nickels and quarters, and since we had money now, I wanted to see. My wife just wanted to watch, so I dropped two tokens into the slot, pulled the handle, and up came three double bars, for $50. I dropped two more tokens in ... three more double bars, another $50! I put about $40 back, and we decided to leave after one last pull. Double bar ... double bar ... double bar! One last $50 for the road, and we went home more than $1,200 to the good. For a couple on a budget, that was one memorable trip. E-MAIL APPEAL: I've had some problems with my home computer and have had the hard drive reformatted. In the process, I lost e-mail that was stored in my file cabinet and lost my entire address book. If you've sent e-mail recently that I've not answered, or if you're a regular correspondent who should be in my address book, please e-mail me again. There is nothing that would cause the ball to land on 2 more often than expected that would also cause a bias in favor of the numbers 1 and 3. "Do you think single-number bets on 2 are the way to go in that situation?" As part of a package, maybe. I'm not an all-or-nothing guy in roulette. Maybe I'd add 2 to my regular pattern of bets for a while. I'd also be on the lookout to see if the numbers that surround 2 on the wheel come up while the streak is fresh. "And those aren't 1 and 3." Correct. Next to the 2 on the left is the 0, and one more space to the left is 28. To the right of 2, the next space is 14, and one more space to the right is 35. I might even bet those five numbers as a package for a while--single-number bets on 0, 2, 14, 28 and 35. I might try to balance that with low volatility bets such as red/black or odd/even. "Do you guarantee a winner that way?" I laughed, and told him that I really still expected to face the same house edge as if I played family birthdays. If the same number hits three times in short order, it's fun to see if we can latch onto a longer streak, but finding a real wheel bias is far from as easy as 1-2-3. |
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