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I know I'm not the first person here to say this or make this post, but help me understand something.

You go to a casino with $1000
You go to a table and you bet $100 on red every single time.
If you lose the bet, you double it, so the bet after the first loss is $200, bet after the 2nd loss is $300 etc.
Obviously red/black is 50/50 however, the does not eliminate the chance of there being 7+ wins out of 10, as overall within 100 bets it will balance at 50/50

So why isn't this a valid strategy to get some money? Surely its better than mindlessly gambling on stocks like some people here do, no?

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Because eventually a loss is so gargantuan it wipes out your capital. It doesn't work unless you have the monopoly of note issue.

Go ahead and test your thesis.

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You know casinos have betting caps right?

but who's to say that a win so so gargantuan that once you've doubled your money you can happily call it a day?

>"We're sorry user but you've lost over $5000 so we cannot continue to let you play at our casino, please make your way to the front desk to settle out."

>50/50
The zeroes mean it's not 50/50, professor.

The 3rd bet would surely be $400 no? Betting red or black is 48.5% not 50%, even with a 50/50 bet the martingale system is doomed to failure.

Yes.

So go to another casino, a high end one for the next $6400 bet