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Old 2nd May 2006, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by spearmaster
Oh, and btw, Caruso, "cheat" has not been proven. Not that I'm all that inclined to disagree, but it *is* possible there was a glitch which caused these results, or even possibly, albeit remotely, that there was nothing wrong with the software and various players just happened to catch bad runs.
This is categorically NOT a freak run, remotely possible. If I've read those decimal places correctly - and the only reason it's hard is there are so many zeros - then the probability is similar to the probablility of being dealt 11 consecutive blackjacks. I would guess that noone in the history of blackjack has ever witnessed such an event:

522 wins out of 1537 hands = 0.0000000000000019

11 consecutive blackjacks = 0.0000000000000035

...both of which are around the one in five hundred trillion mark.

In context: if you played 10 hands of video poker a minute for 95 million years, you would achieve a sample size big enough to "expect" an event like this.

So it'd be fair to say this was no "freak run".
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