Walking Away A Winner

Walking Away A Winner

            Today's topic comes courtesy of Facebook.  A friend of a friend posted that she was leaving Las Vegas happy because she was leaving as a winner.  She played three spins at roulette and won all three so she was done.  I was tempted to write a reply asking if she had played all 37 numbers on each spin.  This would guarantee that she 'won', depending on the definition of winning a particular spin.  Alternatively, she could've bet 'red' on three consecutive spins and had a red number come up each time.  The odds would be about 11.5% that she would win all three.

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Expert Advice

Expert Advice

            The internet is a wonderful thing.  You can look up almost anything in an instant.  You can get sports scores, movie times, restaurant maps and loads of news.  Of course, one of the problems is that the quality of news on the internet is not quite what it used to be in the printed newspapers.  I'm an avid baseball fan (Mets specifically).  The number of times I've read a recap of a game and wondered if the writer had even watched the game is staggering.  The article will have wrong information about what happened in the game and wrong background information.  This past season, I flipped through a headline that blared "(Ryan) Howard hits eighth home run against the Mets."  Interesting as Howard plays for the Phillies and the Mets played the Cardinals that night!  It turns out the home run was against the Rockies.

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