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22/05/2013 00:43:48

Author Topic: Is roulettebot plus biased?  (Read 555 times)

syhprum

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This organisation claims to offer one an automatic gambling program that makes you money by exploiting defects in random number generators.
This sounds like a very dangerous scam to me but I would like views as to if such a thing would be possible. 
« Last Edit: 18/06/2012 07:41:14 by chris »

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http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/

On the other hand it's unlikely that an on-line gambling site would use a generator that was biased enough for you to be able to beat the odds.

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This organisation claims to offer one an automatic gambling program that makes you money by exploiting defects in random number generators.

The fact someone is offering such software for sale means it doesn't work.
If it worked as advertised why sell this software to make money, the creator could use it to milk the casinos dry.

It's a popular type of scam : googling "lottery+prediction+software" gets over a million hits.


Scratch-cards aren't really random so are a different matter ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/Joan-R-Ginther-won-lottery-4-times-Stanford-University-statistics-PhD.html

But again, if anyone worked out the pattern they wouldn't broadcast that information.
« Last Edit: 16/06/2012 14:04:29 by RD »

 

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