Imaduck posted:

Most other casino games aren't beatable. You can't beat Roulette, for example. Many casinos actively encourage players to come up with "systems" to try and beat the house, because the house knows the player can't win, but convincing them they can is what makes the house money. You'll often see big boards of numbers by Roulette tables, where they show the last 25 numbers and the distribution of red and black spins for that day. They want to encourage folks to look for patterns and think they've got it figured out. Of course, this is all random noise: the previous spin of a Roulette wheel does not influence the next one. Random distributions dictate that sometimes you'll flip a coin and get 5 heads in a row. Just by random chance, any five rolls in a row will have a 1 in 16 chance of being all red or all black. Bad gamblers see this and think it means the wheel isn't truly random, but again, you'd actually expect this pretty regularly in a random wheel.