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A Birthday Attack on Roulette

General Mathematics 2013-10-04 v2

Abstract

A strategy for playing the game of roulette is presented in this paper. The strategy is based on the same probabilistic argument that leads to the well-known Birthday Paradox in Probability theory. Following the strategy, a player will have a positive expected gain per spin as well as in the long run despite the fact that the pay-off ratios in roulette favor the House.

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@article{arxiv.1309.7608,
  title  = {A Birthday Attack on Roulette},
  author = {Ranjan Chaudhuri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7608},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

The strategy needs to be revised in order to yield the proposed positive expected gain claimed in the paper

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