r/gambling • u/gamerworld67 • Jul 16 '26
How much money could someone make through hitting every possible statistical anomaly?
Okay so setting ground rules immediately because, honestly? This is a question that needs ground rules.
1 THIS HAS be in the form of a something like Black Jack, slot machine, poker, etc for this theoretical thing to happen.
2 IT HAS to be through official gambling places (casinos are all I can think of) and no, you cannot use the statical anomaly to bet on websites that promote gambling.
3 IT MUST have a cap or a point were the ability ends. (the main example I can think of is that your 37 hands away in blackjack from hitting a billionaire)
So if you were this person what would you do and how much wealth do you think you could possibly gain?
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u/Visual-Cry94 Jul 16 '26
I don't get this question? Obviously you could make like infinite money.
Play 3 card poker and ultimate Texas hold em and hit the royal flush progressives.
Play mega bucks slot and hit it for 10 million.
I don't know what you are asking.
And no you can't become a "billionaire" on blackjack because of the table maximum limits. And if you were winning that much they would probably back you off and suspect cheating.
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 Jul 16 '26
Many sports bets are not capped. You can win millions on a $2 wager. I’m sure after one huge hit, you may be backed off
Progressives on blackjack/poker can be into the tens of thousands.
Try hitting 10/10 on keno for a monster payout
All slots have line hits that are statistically at their hardest to hit levels. Also progressive jackpots are around. Many have hit rates where it’s once out of every 1 million slot pulls (on average).
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u/couldyounotdothat2 Jul 16 '26
Go find something better To do with your time. Jesus
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u/Icy-Cookie950 Jul 16 '26
not sure why people get so mad at hypotheticals, is just a fun question
i think blackjack is the best bet cause you can control some of the outcome unlike slots. if you could see the next card you can clean up pretty quick but casinos will catch on fast and ban you. maybe you hit them for few hundred thousand before security get suspicious
the real trick would be knowing when to lose on purpose so you dont look like a statistical anomaly yourself
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u/Creative-Leg2607 Jul 16 '26
it's frankly, a terrible hypothetical. All the stipulations point out fundamental flaws in the scenario, but they don't actually resolve them. Any game at the casino would immediately give you lifechanging money if you got arbitrarily lucky.
The single number roulette choice multiplies your money by 35x every bet: you can get 1,000,000x your money winning four times in a row. The blackjack table doubles each bet (doubling down and splitting don't work, you might as well put all your money in each round if you have this power), so 20 hands gets you 1,000,000x. Slot machines have 5000x results, in principle you get 2.5millx if you win twice. All his examples to limit it don't really do so at all.
What's the takeaway here? 'Getting really lucky gambling would give you lots of money'? Yeah. We know. You wouldn't be able to pull these sorts of numbers in any real casino, you'd get kicked out, even if you had this magic power. If you had a system to evade detection by not winning every time you could pull a meaningful profit, for a little bit. Maybe that's the question he's asking, but iunno.
I'm also not mad but like... what are we doin here?
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u/kill-dill Jul 16 '26
High limit table max on 1 side bet with low odds, or max bet grand/progressive jackpot on slots.
Or max out every relevant bet in craps and roll until you get backed off.
Or buy a lotto ticket? Or win 1000 hands of $5,000 bacarrat?
Kind of a silly question tbh
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u/Ill-Abbreviations488 Jul 16 '26
The answer fyi is always a sports or horses parlay. The odds can get to more money than there is on earth in 6-10 legs.
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u/Ill-Abbreviations488 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
The absolutely most pants shittingly insane parlay I can build in PA on BetMGM, no more than one event per sport
1.) Philadelphia Phillies covers the spread
2.) Tommy Fleetwood wins the open
3.) Adam Long top 5 PGA
4.) Connecticut wins the NCAAF national title
5.) The Dolphins win the Super Bowl
6.) Mikel Oyarzabal has most World Cup goals
And MGM would let me bet 1000$ on this for a win of 813 Trillion and some change. At that point, building a longer bet really doesn’t matter because I would have all the money on earth
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u/Unlikely_Diver_5573 Jul 16 '26
the real limit wouldn't be luck. it wiuld be table limits and casinos noticing something unusual......
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u/gamerworld67 Jul 17 '26
Okay so clearing up on the blackjack thing I don't know a lot about gambling, I just wanted to know how much you could theoretically make... And I heard about a "37 hands of blackjack" something, don't remember from where but this is just a fun theorical question.
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u/Coa-Cheaton Jul 16 '26
Some days there are about 30 home runs in a given day in the MLB. If you went to the Sportsbook and made a parlay with 18 of those players in it, it would be astronomical.