You're right it just means that the chances of it happening the next 3 times you play are really really really small lol.
The other part, to me anyway, is to show how long such voodoo systems may last before failing.
Of course any betting system will not reduce the HA, but I can prove to you such systems will increase the chance of achieving a $goal given a time unit and $roll compared to a BS flat-bettor with same $roll and same amount of time to achieve that goal before busting. Or variations of that.
They will win more often but at the cost of higher risk of losing all.
Like take a 1-16 play-all guy in 8D with $10K and a $5unit. Maybe he wins $8 every 100 hnads. Maybe his risk is 5% or less. Take a voodoo guy with $10K betting $800/hand and he will probably win $800 in less than an hour 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time he won't have $10K anymore. If he does and is willing to take the risk, he'll have $800 in an hour or less 90% of the time. In an hour he'll have the EV of this card-counter in 100 hours 90% of the time.
Pick your poison. Take your chances. Goals, rolls, time and risk. Whatever.
One only has to make up a min bet every 2-3 hours to break even anyway.
Once one realizes that one could make up 160 units 90% of the time in just1/160th of the time compared to a card-counter and, if achieved, realizes one is good to play min for the next 1000 hours if content to not lose, well, wherever you go, that's where you are.
With alot of leeway in between those extremes. It's not like you have to make it all up in an hour lol.
I know I'm the odd man out here, sometimes giving my views of card-counting without ever making a dime I ever chose to record anyway from it, but, you know, after a few hundred thousand hands in constant -EV, voodoo - the chance of winning x units in the next whatever hands with whatever roll - was all I ever had.
All I know is my voodoo return exceded a flat-bet return a few hundred thousand hands later. By thousands and thousands of flat-units. Add a few bonuses and life has been good.
Voodoo has its place - other than existing soley for being summarily dismissed by card-counters. If you win, you're "lucky" and will inevitably lose. If you "lose", well, what did you expect anyway? All this, while card-counters "steam", often vary their bets in crazy ways in an effort to get "the most money out I possibly can" just because the count is better than normal or hit TC+10 or something, basically often can't even answer themselves the questions of how lucky they are to be ahead or behind by so much after so long, and often ask strangers how should I bet my money in the first place now that I know how to add and subtract 1 when looking at a card?
C'mon, who is really more "voodoo"?
