To earn lunch

Mr Smith got $2047 bonus and he wants to buy his dream TV set with it. However, before that he decides to go out and eat good lunch to celebrate it. He does not want to spend the bonus money on lunch, so he goes to a casino and using the Martingale system hopes to make $30 for his lunch.

In order to succeed he would have to win 30 times in a row, doubling the stake money each time- that`s the rule (he would win one counter each time). If he keeps on betting red, he may be anxious about one thing only- if in 30 game rounds black drops out 11 times in a row, he is a bankrupt. He will lose $1023 in the first ten bets altogether and in the next 11, he will have to bet the last $1024.

The safety of that game strategy is about 98%. That is quite a lot but you have to bear in mind that there is about 2% chances of losing all the money.

If we compare it to the possibility of earning $30 then that way of making some money for lunch may not seem very sensible for quite a few of us.