Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
Sorry, but that isn't true. All that matters for a (losing) streak to occur is the probability of losing a hand or a coup. For double-zero roulette (even-money payoffs, like red-black), losing occurs 20/38 = 52.63% of the time. For single-zero, it's 19/37 = 51.35% of the time. Of course, if you bet a straight-up number, obviously, this is completely different. For blackjack, with ties excluded, you lose a hand about 51.76% of the time (rather rules dependent). So, it falls right in between the two roulette values, and there's no reason to expect that the streaks of loss will be, in your words, "much better."
So Don, how does this fit in with the data at the top of the BJI charts which say something like "estimated HE .6%"? Are those estimates even close to accurate?

Don