From: ionsaliu@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, September 10, 2021 at 8:34:12 PM UTC+3, Marmaduke Jinks wrote:   
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   > He should have said "stop at a winner" and Go Home. I used "Stop at a    
   > winner" on my Ladbroke betting slips back in the 90's    
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   > MJ Martsopolleahk   
      
   Martsopolleahk et al.:   
      
   There is a more generalized case raised in newsgroups several years ago. O   
   tempora! O mores!   
      
   • "Obviously in roulette betting on in the long run you are going to lose   
   your money but at some point, chances are you'll be in profit. To take an   
   extreme example if you had $1000 you could reasonably expect to be ahead $1 at   
   some point.   
   • Is it possible to generalize this? I want to win W dollars at which point   
   I will quit. How much cash C would I need to have a probability P of   
   succeeding? Let's say I'm betting on a 37 number roulette wheel (18 red 18   
   black and one green 0)?"   
      
   • https://saliu.com/roulette2.html   
   • Probability, Odds to Win at Roulette in N Number of Spins — Winning and   
   Quitting on Red/Black in Roulette.   
      
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