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Re: Just-Dice.com : Play or Invest : 1% House Edge : Banter++
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dooglus
on 08/08/2013, 16:56:20 UTC
Every bet will, on average, make -1% of the amount wagered.  This is true no matter what the sequence.  To get the total average profit just add up all the bets and multiply by -1%.

Not quite true - if you look a few posts above I derived the expected profit for both an unbounded and a bounded martingale sequence without house edge and it's not the sum of all bets, which is what I think you're saying it would be if there was no house edge.

Your derivation suffered from an off-by-one (fencepost) error.  The expected return from a game with zero house edge is zero however you play.