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I mean if you would have 50% chance of winning would any strategy make you win 100%? I always wondered since you cant win on normal casinos because the odds are against you but here in a perfectly fair dice would you be able to win ?

I think that there may be some good strategies( even against real casinos) but you always have to have the luck in your games

if though they state its fair, they have better odds on winning, theres that saying the house always wins.

Assuming sane parameters (i.e. a finite amount of money) no such strategy exists. If you're playing with a fair dice, every single roll gives you an expected value of 0, and there's simply no way to combine EV0 bets to become +EV nor -EV. The one thing you can control for, however, is variance. By making small bets, you can reduce it. By making a singe bet, you can maximize it.

No my friend. There is no way for you to be able to win 100% of time. That is why this is called gambling not investing. Normal casinos are not different from crypto casinos. They exist for one purpose, to earn money. Not to make people rich.

But im not talking about casinos, im talking about a fair dice or a fair coin with a 50% chances of winning or loosing

you would have to stop when youre at profit because 50 % chance means that even after 1000000 bets you will have almost the same amount of wins and losses so you would have to stop when you have more wins

i dont think any form of gambling is fair.. or wouldnt casinos be out of business.

IM NOT TALKING ABOUT CASINOS BUT ABOUT A 50% 50% dice, you guys dont get it??

Nearly all of the provably fair dice sites have a positive house edge (except PD PvP), and so you won't have 50% chance of doubling your balance.
And even in a 0% edge game, there is no way you can have a 100% chance of winning.

well this would depend, if the rolls arent recorded for the house to play against you, with server seed manipulation etc.

and none skipped nonce #`s.

No.
Basically there should always be 50% / 50% on each hi/lo game, no matter what was the previous number.
But you/me don't think like that. We hope that after a low will come a high. And if it didn't, next surely will be high. This is why Martingale fails.

Even without the edge , its hard to be certain that you will win. Any strategy will fail because of the highest betting limit for all sites.

No. players rely on making small bets and wait for the lose streak so that they can bet big on the next winning bet but they forget that odd remains the same. If they get lucky they think that their strategy is working but it's not the truth.

The house is prevent you from winning.

No house edge , everybody can win. 8)

Example : on the dice , if you can predict what number will come out than you will win 100 % ;)

So you need a very very pure luck to win 100%

Hey! A Dice Game With No House Edge Does Exist!

Google "DirectDice"! And find the strategy on directdice yourself  :P

With a good strategy you could make some money but there is never any garuntee to win.

Assuming insane parameters (i.e. a infinite amount of money) such strategy can exist. If you're playing with a fair dice (or even unfair dice), simply martingale.  ;D

most gambling sites are not fair. if they were anyone could make a lot of money. IV played dice with 97% chance of winning and still lost 5 times in a row. maybe ull get some luck with new sites.

I play with the strategy of winning and pausing , I mean when I win 30 times then I logout for 10 minutes . Then come back and play again I am always in winning position this way.

Like  he said no strategy in gambling is a sure shot way to win. It all relies on luck. Strategies might help you last longer but not win

You should edit it to say dice without a house edge. Dice is already provably fair.
As for winning it without the edge, its a gamble again. But no one can guarantee winning for sure.

50% is still damn 50 % a freaking low chance to win actually. no you would NOT be able to ''win''. you either lose or stop playing after you win once.

No you would not. THe problem is not the degree of uncertainly it emotions. People would get emotional and they would lose. Thats why lotteries and casinos always make tons of money. Its not the edge. its the fear and greed of money.

With a 0% house edge and really random numbers, u can expect to win 0% on the long run, no matter how you bet.

You can also martingale your very big bankroll and achieve big profits for a lot of bets, but on the long run u will for sure get busted (also with a 0% bankroll).

Remember that a 1% bankroll is 100 times bigger than a 0.001% bankroll.l, it means 100 time more losses to you (on the long run).

On the short run, u can " easly"  turn 1 to 1.2 on every dice site, after that u have a 49% chanche of turning it to 2.4 and so on....that's why more u win, more easy to win more...

You should be able to win with martingale if the casino isn't rigged. Try it out by playing heads or tails or real dice. The only problem is that you'd have to start with really low bets and the chances of you winning big are low too, but at least you won't lose much this way. Unfortunately, some games are rigged to prevent people from using this strategy. I've seen a post by some guy, who had over 15 consecutive losses in a 50% dice game, after he won some money using martingale.

15 consecutive loses is nothing haha. Players should readily plan for at least 22+ if not 30+.

Yeah mate..15-20 in 2x bets is pretty common now...i think everyone should be prepared for it!

Still this isn't by any means normal, even if you accept this is how the system works.

martingale isnt worth it for long run anyway

lets say you hit a bad streak of losing , either way you need big bankroll for martingale to continue

Martingale is stupid because you can win small or lose big.

15+ win/loss streaks are possible. How much do you win if you win 15 in a row using martingale? How much do you lose when you lose 15 in a row?


As for the original question, if the odds are 50/50 and the payouts are 50/50, you expect to win just as much as you lose, there would be no strategy to win more, you win if you are lucky, you lose if you are unlucky. It would be a little easier to make money than a game with a house edge becasue you don't have to beat that, but you will still have no advantage.

This is the best explained and correct answer.
The problem is that human mind has a flaw: it's programmed to hope.
And that's why most people still think that Martingale is a great approach (I also thought that until I started "testing" it live).

We don't (want to) understand that if a dice has 50% chance to return "high", that 50% is met if for an infinite number of tries. That means that losing streaks of 20-30 is not unusual. If you have an infinite amount of money, you'll regain your loses back.

Mathematics and common sense in general speak differently. In the short term with luck on your side you may be able to profit, but the reality is that there are ridiculous patches of bad luck (ie. doog reported some guy got hit with 31 losses in a row running martingale). The only way to profit with martingale is if both:

a) you have infinite money (why are you gambling then - for the lols?)
b) there is no max house bet (which there always is otherwise you'd be able to bankrupt the casino very easily if you got lucky)

So basically the house edge will always get you if you play long enough (or just have shitty luck).