Posts Tagged ‘Randomness’
Casinos and Good Luck!
Thursday, November 11th, 2010It was back in 2004 when one of the most daring of all bets was made on roulette. Ashley Revel lived in London, and believed that he would win at roulette. He sold everything that he had, including his house, and bought a plane ticket to Las Vegas. He visited the first casino he found on The Strip, exchanged all his cash, which amounted to over £76,000, for chips, and placed them all on red.
Casino games and random numbers
Thursday, November 11th, 2010Online casinos rely entirely on random number generators. These are essentially computers that generate numbers that are entirely random, which means that they do not have any form of pattern. Visit www.onlinecasino.org.uk for more information about this.
Of course there are other ways of creating random sequences of numbers; such as throwing a dice, flipping a coin, mechanically selecting lottery balls, and shuffling a pack of playing cards.
We might ask how random are these random number generators really are. Perhaps it is possible to find patterns in their results which we can exploit to increase our chances of winning at our online casino.
How to protect yourselves against online casino cheating
Sunday, May 30th, 2010How to protect yourselves against online casino cheating
While playing card games (blackjack, punto banco, poker) at a land-based casino, we are absolutely confident of the integrity of the casino, because everything is happening before our eyes. In the case of a loss, we blame either bad luck or ourselves for the wrong moves. We would never claim that a casino was at fault for a bad outcome. But it is different when we play at a online casino, where the random number generator controlling the numbers is far away from us on a game server, and we only see the results as the cards are distributed.
