PHP martingale bot for satoshiDICE

[dooglus]

nope that's old-fashioned and against modern recommendations

pretty much any php parser will work just fine without a closing ?> at the end of the file, and leaving it off the end of the file makes it less likely you'll accidentally introduce unwanted whitespace in the output.

I didn't know that.  Thanks!

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[Gyrsur]

you cannot successfully play SD with logic or a script. forget to play with this!

to beat SD you have to play with illogicalness. this is where the fear of SD comes from!

http://blockchain.info/tx/9784cb364ffbaa000bbb5574ec6a50c9f500c9df830cf89d3cd90318bd7225dc --> WIN

EDIT: http://blockchain.info/tx/9b446789a58501a84767f0ad87013982aec870048b40cc895fc3fde0c56af37a --> WIN

EDIT2: http://blockchain.info/tx/812bdb3cc7e620e38e1fdee74361d58c1c860e3d2b2b7a7ee3c37047e2157a8c --> LOSE

So, what next? Buy bitcoins to feed the SD monster with 20.48 --> 40.96 --> 81.92?? NO WAY!! DON'T FEED THE SD MONSTER. IT IS WASTE OF TIME.

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[dooglus]

So, what next? Buy bitcoins to feed the SD monster with 20.48 --> 40.96 --> 81.92?? NO WAY!! DON'T FEED THE SD MONSTER. IT IS WASTE OF TIME.

I think we all realise that there's no way to guarantee a win at satoshidice, and that the longer you play, the more likely you are to make a loss.  It can be fun/exciting/scary to use Martingale betting, but of course you should never risk more than you can afford to lose, because you might end up losing everything you bet.

[KJTetc]

Using your script, localhost as allowed ip in conf. Running from command line. Still get that http error

I don't think that will work as when I just run it for 30 seconds I get a repeat of this once it's done

Warning: fopen(http://...@127.0.0.1:8332/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in C:\xampp\htdocs\jsonRPCClient.php on line 132

Run the script on the command line:

  php bot.php

not from a web server.

Try using my script and the json-rpc PHP file that's with it.  It has better error handling.

  https://github.com/dooglus/sdbot

[dooglus]

Using your script, localhost as allowed ip in conf. Running from command line. Still get that http error

I PM'ed him, used TeamViewer to diagnose the problem.  Turned out he had two copies of the script, and was running an old copy while editing the new copy.  Running the new copy showed straight away that his wallet was encrypted and locked.

I modified the script so it prompts for a passphrase, but my Windows skills are weak, and apparently it didn't work.  So I guess he either ended up unlocking his wallet manually or hardcoding the passphrase into the script.

The last I heard from him:
  "[11:31:16 PM] made a whole bitcoin tonight!!"



I made a few other changes to the script. like adding the option to set constant starting and stopping bet sizes, rather than using a percentage of your balance, and stopping if a certain file exists.

  http://github.com/dooglus/sdbot

[payb.tc]

The last I heard from him:
  "[11:31:16 PM] made a whole bitcoin tonight!!"

hopefully that's not "the last we hear from him"

quit while you're ahead KJ!

[KJTetc]

Made 2.46 bitcoin in total. I think I'm done gambling forever!

The last I heard from him:
  "[11:31:16 PM] made a whole bitcoin tonight!!"

hopefully that's not "the last we hear from him"

quit while you're ahead KJ!

[maomao]

  Can you  add a feature, to the results of the past N bets, If greater than a certain threshold, and suspended for 10 minutes

[Rampion]

You cannot escape the house edge. Never.

http://www.goodbonusguide.com/casino-articles/roulette-systems-destroying-the-martingale-theory-myth.html

[maomao]

Code:

function get_result($mode, $bet_txid, $game_name)
{
	unset($r);
	$jsonurl = "http://satoshiroulette.com/log.api.php?txid=$bet_txid&mode=$mode";

	while(! isset($r->{$game_name}) )
	{
		$json = file_get_contents($jsonurl);
		$r = json_decode($json);
		if(isset($r->{$game_name}))
		{
			$result = $r->{$game_name};
		}
		print ".";
		$s = rand($GLOBALS['sleep'], $GLOBALS['sleep_max']);
		sleep($s);
	}
	return $result;
}

 like the example above,can we  query to result directly from the satoshidice website.

$jsonurl = "http://www.satoshidice.com/lookup.php?tx=$bet_txid&limit=250&min_bet=0&status=ALL&format=json";

[dooglus]

You cannot escape the house edge. Never.

http://www.goodbonusguide.com/casino-articles/roulette-systems-destroying-the-martingale-theory-myth.html

Well, if you play long enough, your losses will get arbitrarily close to the house edge.

But if you only play a few times you can end up making a profit.

The guy who only ever makes one bet and doubles his stake has "escaped the house edge", hasn't he?

[dooglus]

Can you  add a feature, to the results of the past N bets, If greater than a certain threshold, and suspended for 10 minutes

Can you be a bit clearer please?  You want it to pause when it's won a certain amount in the last so many bets?  Is that net win?  Like suppose we start at 1 BTC, we lose a bunch, doubling up each time, the last N=3 bets were 64, 128, and 256, and only the 256 won, does that count as a win of 64?  Because it's really only a win of about 1 BTC.  And what's with the weird quoting?  Gyrsur and myself didn't say any of that stuff...

like the example above,can we  query to result directly from the satoshidice website.

That's a good idea.  I'll add both when I need a break from 'real work'. 

[Rampion]

You cannot escape the house edge. Never.

http://www.goodbonusguide.com/casino-articles/roulette-systems-destroying-the-martingale-theory-myth.html

Well, if you play long enough, your losses will get arbitrarily close to the house edge.

But if you only play a few times you can end up making a profit.

The guy who only ever makes one bet and doubles his stake has "escaped the house edge", hasn't he?

I assume that the purpose of a bot is to play long enough.

[organofcorti]

You cannot escape the house edge. Never.

http://www.goodbonusguide.com/casino-articles/roulette-systems-destroying-the-martingale-theory-myth.html

Well, if you play long enough, your losses will get arbitrarily close to the house edge.

But if you only play a few times you can end up making a profit.

The guy who only ever makes one bet and doubles his stake has "escaped the house edge", hasn't he?

I assume that the purpose of a bot is to play long enough.

No, anyone using a bot is likely to have played too long. The longer you play, the more likely your luck tends to expected, and the vloser you tend to get to a loss equating to the house edge. That's just rephrasing what dooglus wrote.

It boils down to: the longer you martingale, the more likely your winnngs are to be a range that can be mathematically described as follows:

Code:

lost your shirt <  earnings <  (1 - house edge) * amount you bet

[SRoulette]

replying here as this bot was our direct inspiration for our own (and even the reason we chose php).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=142326.0

Great work btw

[Rampion]

You cannot escape the house edge. Never.

http://www.goodbonusguide.com/casino-articles/roulette-systems-destroying-the-martingale-theory-myth.html

Well, if you play long enough, your losses will get arbitrarily close to the house edge.

But if you only play a few times you can end up making a profit.

The guy who only ever makes one bet and doubles his stake has "escaped the house edge", hasn't he?

I assume that the purpose of a bot is to play long enough.

No, anyone using a bot is likely to have played too long. The longer you play, the more likely your luck tends to expected, and the vloser you tend to get to a loss equating to the house edge. That's just rephrasing what dooglus wrote.

It boils down to: the longer you martingale, the more likely your winnngs are to be a range that can be mathematically described as follows:

Code:

lost your shirt <  earnings <  (1 - house edge) * amount you bet

The longer you martingale, the more likely you will lose enough times in a row to loose all your money. Bets grow exponentially, money is not infinite.

Unless you have 50 billion... But then why would you Martingale just to double the first bet? It's kinda stupid to bet, let's say 512 BTC (cumulative bet 1023 BTC), to win only 1 BTC.

[dooglus]

Unless you have 50 billion... But then why would you Martingale just to double the first bet? It's kinda stupid to bet, let's say 512 BTC (cumulative bet 1023 BTC), to win only 1 BTC.

Actually, if I have 1023 BTC and need 1024 BTC, it's about 100 times more cost effective to bet 1 BTC and martingale up to 512 than it is to bet the whole 1023 BTC on a '1-in-1023' bet (if such a thing existed).

Of course, both strategies are a bad idea - you can expect to lose on average.  But you can expect to lose 100 times less on average if you do a sequence of up to 10 martingale bets than if you make a single large bet.

[juve4v]

I have one question: Could it be possible for the bot to acces the real time bets as they appear on "recent" tab on sd site, or at least  last bet, check the number and bet only if x > y , where y is "no less than  number we play.
For example I want to only play : Less that 32768 which is 50%, for a fixed amount but I want the bot to check last number on recent tab and if that number is > 32768 alow to bet,  if it is < 32768 stop and wait till next number is greater than 32768 then play.So could this be made possible?
I know its a bit out of this topic but it is /can be connected to it.

[kano]

I have one question: Could it be possible for the bot to acces the real time bets as they appear on "recent" tab on sd site, or at least  last bet, check the number and bet only if x > y , where y is "no less than  number we play.
For example I want to only play : Less that 32768 which is 50%, for a fixed amount but I want the bot to check last number on recent tab and if that number is > 32768 alow to bet,  if it is < 32768 stop and wait till next number is greater than 32768 then play.So could this be made possible?
I know its a bit out of this topic but it is /can be connected to it.

Lulz - funny
History doesn't affect the next bet

[dooglus]

Lulz - funny
History doesn't affect the next bet

This, exactly.

Your number is determined entirely by:
  a) your transaction id (which is set by your client before your bet leaves your computer)
and
  b) the site's daily secret (which was set before the site started running)

It makes no difference who bets before you, or what number they got.

Your strategy is similar to waiting for three people to roll a 7 in craps before you start playing.  You can do it if you like, but it doesn't affect your chances of winning.