Preview

The Chance of Winning or Losing Craps: Statistical Analysis

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1242 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
The Chance of Winning or Losing Craps: Statistical Analysis
I am at a casino in California, and I am thinking about playing a game or two of craps. This is my first time ever playing craps and for the first three or four rolls I sit down and watch. Finally I feel like I am ready to play. So I stepped up and placed my first bet. Winner is announced. Shocked I gathered my winnings and kept playing. After winning a few more times I was given the opportunity to be the shooter. By now I have figured out that if I roll a seven or eleven we'll automatically win. However if I roll a 2, 3 or twelve we all lose automatically. So I rolled. To my astonishment I roll a ten. Well I had never seen this and don't know what to do. A nice gentleman explains to me that now I have to roll a ten again before rolling 7, 2, 3 or twelve. Nervous I roll. What are the odds of rolling the ten and not rule and a seven, two, three, or twelve?
In the following few pages I will analyze statistically the chance of winning or losing on your first roll. This game is played with two dice each of which have six sides this means that there are 36 possible combinations that can occur when a rolling these two dice. Also because of the nature of this game the odds of rolling a certain number are reset at the beginning of each roll. Therefore before even beginning to analyze this game of chance I already know that the chance of rolling at ten on the first roll is the same as rolling a ten on every role thereafter. This little bit of knowledge will make all of my calculations tremendously more simple. The first time you ever get to a craps table, make a small bet on the pass line. The pass line is the strip that runs all around the craps table's layout.
This small bet that you just made on the pass line is called a come-bet. That's because the first throw of the dice is a come-out roll. At this point, you're hoping to roll a 7 or an 11 if you're the shooter, or hope that the person who is throwing the dice rolls a 7 or an 11. On the come-out roll, a 7 or

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” is not what you think it is. A lottery typically, is something you would want to win. In Jackson’s story, it is quite the opposite. You wouldn’t think anything was wrong at the beginning of the story. It takes place in a small village. Everyone seems to be excited about the lottery, because everyone is present for the lottery. All the characters in the story seem to get along well. Everyone in the town gathers for the lottery. All the children are gathering rocks. This rock collecting didn’t seem to make sense until later. The lottery takes place by having each man or head of household draw a piece of paper out of a black box. The man that draws the black dot then has to have their family members…

    • 761 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    i. BLACKJACK - First 2 cards are an "ACE" (A) and a "10" (10, J, Q, and K).…

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Gambling table with chips and cards on table, and one player's hands (player to the left of husband) holding cards, places them down and takes all the chips in the centre of table(3 seconds). Cut to…

    • 2986 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The year is 1890 in Bishee, Arizona. The air is dry and the wooden sign reading "Orient Saloon" is splintered and cracked. Stock promoters, road agents and con-men sit at a tension filled table, liable to erupt into a sudden shoot-out. Tony, the proprietor, keeping a close watchful eye on the singer, ‘Nifty' Doyle, as Murphy, the dealer, puts down the losing card; a Queen of Spades. Mining stocks and life savings go to the lucky dealer in the black fedora. "‘A fine game!" said the players," (Pushkin 182). Again, never losing a beat, the dealer collects bets.…

    • 1043 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the simplest of terms, your odds of winning are simply the number of possible winning numbers divided by the number of total numbers. If you were betting a single number, the odds would be 1 to 38 on an American wheel and 1 to 37 on a European wheel. If you were betting any even money bet your odds would be 18 to 38 or 18 to 37 (there are 18 red, 18 black, 18 even, 18 odd, 18 numbers 1-18, 18 numbers 1-36). To put these numbers in percents you just do the division: number of winning possibilities divided by the total…

    • 1012 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Learn how to play lottery and its ins and outs through an extensive guide that walks every reader through the key and essential points of the game. From rules, tips, all the way to advanced strategies, every reader—new or experienced—is ensured to benefit from the significant writings.…

    • 257 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    The book which was published by Random House became an instant hit and sold more than 700,000 copies. Inside the book, Thorp explained his “Ten Count System” for counting cards. In 1966, he published the second edition of this book. The book delved deeper into explaining the intricacies of the system. Many people who had read or heard about Thorp’s book became even more eager to try their luck at the casino. However, many casinos began co-opting Thorps card counting techniques to make painstaking amends in their systems. The Casinos also devised a technique for reshuffling the deck much sooner in order to hinder the successes of the card counters who were looking to tap into Thorp’s meticulous…

    • 1112 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell and The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson portray the common theme that people remain indifferent to cruelty until they are the recipients of it. Both stories show that when the darker side of human nature centers on itself, evil prevails showing how man is innately evil and that convictions and morals can be compromised by circumstance. Both authors show that through both societal standards and learned behavior, many injustices and cruelties can be accepted as normal behavior.…

    • 715 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Focus Spreadsheet

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages

    A. The probability that you are dealt pocket aces is 1/221, or 0.00452 to three significant digits. If you studied either Section 4.5 and 4.6 or Section 4.8, verify that probability.…

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Every person on Earth has or will experience death. The world is full of it and it can’t be changed. Both of the short stories, “The Lottery” and “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” are not any different. They both involve one person dying and they both have evil people and an evil mood. “The Lottery” is a short story about a town that sacrifices one person every year to have a good harvest. “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” is a short story about a guy named Peyton that is getting hanged and dreams that he gets to see his family one last time but before he opens the door to his house he sees a white light and dies. Even though “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce have many distinct differences,…

    • 1419 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The influence of power is greater than most people make think; power itself can either lift you or crush you. Before there is an opportunity to gain control of any or all situations, someone may not even realize how defenseless they are but the moment they finally have power, they feel unstoppable. The three stories, “King of The Bingo Game”, “Story of an Hour”, and “Gorilla, My Love”, explain how feeling helpless and powerless can make someone feel scared, act irrationally, or lose hope. Nevertheless, both the lack of or too much power can strip away our humanity.…

    • 866 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Slavery is indisputably one of the most impactful events in history that still resonates its effects today. This is shown evident in Ralph Ellison’s King of the Bingo Game, where the protagonist still feels the impacts of slavery even though he was not a slave. Throughout the text, the unnamed protagonist demonstrates the struggles of many blacks affected by slavery. He tries to change his fate with the bingo game, but realizes that he cannot change the course of his life that slavery had already set in stone for him.…

    • 661 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    "The Lottery" reminds us to look to tradition with scrutiny because not questioning our own actions can lead to things that go against our morals. "The Lottery" demonstrates this by showing the villagers calmly congregate to commit murder in order to prevent a bad year for the crops. We as readers see this as a crazy and horrifying , (also inefficient,) way to secure that the crops grow, whereas the villagers see this as a necessary ritual only because it is traditionally done. There is even evidence in the story that they don't need to act this way in that some of the neighboring villages no longer practice this ritual and the success of their harvest is somewhat equal to those who still practice. The villagers ignore that because they believe…

    • 146 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    6. Lines 59–67: What might the box symbolize? What evidence supports your answer? Suggest an unspoken message that Jackson wants to convey to the reader about the lottery.…

    • 408 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Traditions are beliefs that are kept around for centuries, and are passed on from generation to generation. There are all sorts of traditions around the world. Traditions are made up by one person, and no matter how stupid the tradition is it is still followed. Traditions are supposed to be memories, and who would want to remember such a gruesome tradition. The murder of Tessie hutchinson was one that never would be forgotten.…

    • 378 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays