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Topic: Just-Dice.com : now with added CLAMs : Play or Invest - page 147. (Read 454831 times)

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 I sincerely wait for the day nakowa will lose like 20 or so times in a row , he might even get out of that but it won't be as easy and we might see something like an end for all of this.
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i ♥ coinichiwa
What we have here is a situation where someone appears to be actually beating the house edge over many thousands of bets.

Operating a gambling site myself I can tell you it's absolutely normal people starting with 0.1 BTC and leaving with 2 BTC profit but those people dont call much attention. It's not that remarkable to make 2000BTC when starting with 100BTC. The difference is: not many people make so high bets and the long term for house profit might get a bit longer.
legendary
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It should be possible to run simulations to predict the likelihood of various profit/loss outcomes given a range of bets.  You could take data from the site's history (either the entire history or just a fixed period) and calculate the probability of various sizes of profits/losses.

The main advantage of this is that you don't have to do complex math and simulations are easy to do.
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Prepare for a new load of players and investors to arrive shortly.  One of Australia's largest online news sites has just featured a major headline story about just-dice.com and Nakowa.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-biggest-bitcoin-win-in-gambling-history/story-e6frfro0-1226725824027

This bit made me laugh:
Y.
'the whole system is "probably fair,"'
Lots of inaccuracies in there but still it good publicity I suppose.
legendary
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Prepare for a new load of players and investors to arrive shortly.  One of Australia's largest online news sites has just featured a major headline story about just-dice.com and Nakowa.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-biggest-bitcoin-win-in-gambling-history/story-e6frfro0-1226725824027

This bit made me laugh:

'the whole system is "probably fair,"'
legendary
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Prepare for a new load of players and investors to arrive shortly.  One of Australia's largest online news sites has just featured a major headline story about just-dice.com and Nakowa.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-biggest-bitcoin-win-in-gambling-history/story-e6frfro0-1226725824027
legendary
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Learning the troll avoidance button :)
Even investing can be fun  Cool
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Some guy just won at least 5000 bitcoins on JustDice.
In B4 investor rage.



edit- damn it Professor!



I don't mind, I want more action! This is almost as fun as gambling myself Smiley
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sr. member
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Some guy just won at least 5000 bitcoins on JustDice.
In B4 investor rage.



edit- damn it Professor!
sr. member
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 Tow just left , with profit -5k down Cheesy
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Now watch all investors getting ecstatic until next bad run.
I'm not estatic - I feel like he is trying to get people to invest more by making it look like his system breaking down only to have more coins to take with a higher max profit.  Excuse my skepticism but I have J-D investor PTSD.

So he/she can loose and win intentionally? I'm not sure this is how gambling works...
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Now watch all investors getting ecstatic until next bad run.
I'm not estatic - I feel like he is trying to get people to invest more by making it look like his system breaking down only to have more coins to take with a higher max profit.  Excuse my skepticism but I have J-D investor PTSD.
vip
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Now watch all investors getting ecstatic until next bad run.
sr. member
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Seems the loss has gone down a bit, now at about -400.

Now +2950... with 2000BTC deposit incoming in the next block!
legendary
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today i recieved 0.6 from primedice for the bonus, but i lost 0.7 in a single autobet Sad
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Seems the loss has gone down a bit, now at about -400.
vip
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Nakowa has said he is taking the site to -2000.. divest bitches!
And why should we listen to him? He hasn't kept promises in the past.  Wink

@mberg2007: sometimes 500 rolls might not be enough. maybe 5,000, or 50,000 are needed for you to see the 50/50 you are looking for.
More like 1 million roll of the same bet size Wink
b!z
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Nakowa has said he is taking the site to -2000.. divest bitches!
And why should we listen to him? He hasn't kept promises in the past.  Wink

@mberg2007: sometimes 500 rolls might not be enough. maybe 5,000, or 50,000 are needed for you to see the 50/50 you are looking for.
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We profit 76 % of the time over 1,000 bets - not 50.8 % of the time like with 1 bet.

THAT'S being an investor, not a gambler.

Also - has anyone noticed that despite the 1 percent edge JD has never made a 1 % profit? It was about half that - before the current fiasco - now we know why.

Variance. Lets lower it by refusing big bets.


I'm sorry, but this is the biggest load of BS I have ever read. Clearly you have not done the math.

If you make 1000 bets with a 1% house edge, you will win 490 times and the house will win 510 times. The house will not win 76% of the time.

Variance means nothing as far as house edge. Playing many tiny bets and playing one huge bet provides precisely the same house income over time. As a gambler, you will have no advantage by placing smaller bets and winning and losing small amounts than by placing a single large bet. Over time it's just a matter of scale.

A casino runs the risk of losing the bankroll only if they don't cap the size of their maximum bets. Because obviously there's only a 51% chance of winning that bet, and thus a 49% chance of going bust from the casino's point of view. But JD does have these limits. Noone is placing bets of 1000 BTC or more. The max win is 1% of the invested capital, which makes good sense. There is no reason to limit that further.

What we have here is a situation where someone appears to be actually beating the house edge over many thousands of bets. And this is intriguing, because from a statistical point of view this should not be possible. You can't win a coin toss came if the coin is balanced towards the house, no matter what system you use.

-Michael



House edge is 50.5% vs 49.5%
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