Poll of the Day > How much money would you bet on a coin flip?

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Double or nothing, as many times as you want. Would you play?

This sounds startingly similar to that there St. Petersburg paradox.
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25 cents.

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I wouldn't play.

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Zero.

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Do I get to flip the coin, cause I can still control a coin flip pretty well.

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give me the Trillion dollar coins we minted for the first Covid bailouts. I'm feeling lucky!

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wolfy42 posted...

Do I get to flip the coin, cause I can still control a coin flip pretty well.

You can control a good coin flip with 30-50 flips before landing? I can see a sissy flip with 2-4 flips being controlled but not a actual good flip.

my mortal coil

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$100

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xjayguyx posted...

You can control a good coin flip with 30-50 flips before landing? I can see a sissy flip with 2-4 flips being controlled but not a actual good flip.

I could, and even with my eyesight, i'm pretty sure I could again. It's not really watching the coin, you master flipping it at a certain speed and that allows you to catch it at the right time for heads or tails depending on what you want, you can even do it with it being called mid flip.

I pretty much could control a flip (no matter how long/high I flipped it, 100% of the time in my 20's or so. I never used it on anything other than showing off I could do it though. Basically you just need to master the "spin" you put on the coin when you flip it, and then you basically can count in your head automatically to determine if it's heads or tails when you catch it.

I might even try it tomorrow (though inside I won't really have that much height), and take a video to show it if you want, though there may be videos online from others at this point. Heck I'll look right now.

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wolfy42 posted...

I could, and even with my eyesight, i'm pretty sure I could again. It's not really watching the coin, you master flipping it at a certain speed and that allows you to catch it at the right time for heads or tails depending on what you want, you can even do it with it being called mid flip.

I pretty much could control a flip (no matter how long/high I flipped it, 100% of the time in my 20's or so. I never used it on anything other than showing off I could do it though. Basically you just need to master the "spin" you put on the coin when you flip it, and then you basically can count in your head automatically to determine if it's heads or tails when you catch it.

I might even try it tomorrow (though inside I won't really have that much height), and take a video to show it if you want, though there may be videos online from others at this point. Heck I'll look right now.

Crazy, 100% of the time huh wow.

xjayguyx posted...

You can control a good coin flip with 30-50 flips before landing? I can see a sissy flip with 2-4 flips being controlled but not a actual good flip.

the trick is as old as coins. if you flip your wrist backwards as you flick your thumb. you can consistently control the flip 7-8/10 times.

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5$

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Well blah there are to many other methods now with videos, people feel the coin when it lands and then they know if it's heads or tails and control it by either (flipping it) onto the back of their other hand or not, people flip the coins so it wobbles (with the tail side up still the whole time) etc.

But look, it's not hard to do it yourself, at least with a slower flip, as you practice you can do it with a much faster flip that nobody will think you could control, but at first, just control how high you throw it and how many times it flips (just have it flip like 4 times), and do that over and over till you can control it every time like that, then flip it 8 times etc, until you get down a full fast flip (which at that point you can actually keep track of the side by the time it's in the air). That lets you control the flip to be heads or tails WHILE it's in the air (letting someone else call it).

It's not hard, just a bit of practice and anyone can do it. Waaaay easier than juggling for instance.

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Betting sucks.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Betting sucks.

Long as you bet against a chick you always win.

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With no limit, a fair coin, and enough starting money to bet, you are essentially guaranteed to make money.

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$0
I don't gamble.

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