Sheldon goes to Vegas to win money for science - The Big Bang Theory 

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Intelligent enough not smart enough

He must not be that smart, because math would have steered Sheldon somewhere else. Probability shows you can't win at roulette.

@@allswellinendwell6957 Yep, pick one game and learn to beat it; Blackjack is my fav for a good ROI.

Why was Sheldon being escorted out before he was about to place his bets and make his millions?

@@ethanshepherd4963 Because what he was proposing is actually against the rules of gambling. Basically like counting cards, working as a team or using "science" to determine outcomes is frowned upon and they will escort you out(and share your infor with all the other casinos). Check out the story of the MIT students and their trip to a casino, you can also watch Rainman.

Lol. It was different in the first place.

@@arianbehnami1050 good, good, let the hate flow through you.😈

@@arianbehnami1050 lol

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No there not. That does not happen in real life.

well than go to germany, we have casinso that are run by the state and so are state property and you can freely count cards there, as they cant kick you out without a good reason and low and behold, being smart isnt a valid reason to throw you out.

Its private properties so they can do whatever they want

@@JohnSoapMacTavish-tb6pk what was so hard in the sentence i wrote. It is owned by the government and so it is no private properti and so they cant throw you out without a solid reason.

@@dert3rmin4tor23 damn, Germany casino rock. Here is in Vegas, 99% of people go here will lose.

The only reason this episode's joke didn't quite stick the landing for me, is because Sheldon was the one that informed the table about the MIT Vegas story...which meant he would've known to be careful, because of his nearly perfect recall. They should've had Howard set him up by telling him even MIT students beat Vegas for millions.

I saw a story about Einstein calling his lab a few hours after he left one evening because he forgot his own address. Lol.

What subjects did he teach?

@@ethanshepherd342 I guess, navigation

@@jeremystewert4303 my dad has a phd in nuclear physics and electronics and he told me while writing his thesis a teacher came and asked him his name. He couldn't remember. Lol. He said, I just sat there thinking what my name was and kept on saying my name! My name! The guy tapped on his shoulder laughed and said later, it is okay, get back to work. I was wondering how is that possible. And then I grew up. Yeah that happens :'D

You’ll usually almost never have both. They can tell how to get to the moon and back with a simple calculator but they could never tie a fishing lure on to a fishing line. When my wife was pregnant with our first child we went to one of the first appointments and I had a question, I don’t recall what it was, but we spent over an talking about a cows reproductive system. I’ve artificiality inseminated dozens and he was just amazed. My wife didn’t saw a word to me on the way home lmao! Your awfully quiet, something wrong? Oh I thought you might be talked out after comparing me to a cow for an hour!

... and you get "Rain man" script

@@alexeylukyanov3361 actually you get broke hands or taken to the desert.. lol

@@Hawken707 "Casino" script)

@@alexeylukyanov3361 There is another movie that needs referencing in another thread below.

@@JonatasAdoM or Howard's mom sends them with meatloaf laced with ecstasy and they have one crazy night getting strippers, winning money, having fun, while not remembering a damn thing when you wake up

@Abitamim Bharmal nicceee \one

Yes. People who like to gamble SHOULD try the stock market. With a little research, smarts and the stomach to take calculated chances, a person can make big money in a short time. I'm in the stock market, but I am a long term investor.

@@georgesealy4706 Especially Sheldon.

Newton went bankrupt in stock market. So, I don't think Sheldon can make money there

@@mohitsati1851 Some make it big some lose big, not everyone can make money, just like how American companies is using slave labour in china to make their cheap electronics. Being smart does help, but there is always a risk involved.

Hallalujah

Nice one.

Intelligence is knowing a tomato is actually a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.

@@TheFlyingZulu ok buy have you ever had tomato in a fruit salad though? pineapple and tomato actually mix really well in terms of flavor.

@@divinityquartz3428 I sure haven't.

GARRY OAK they don't want winners

not illegal but a casino is a private property so they have the right to kick out whoever they want, so...

No, being obviously smart does kick you out.

It's not illegal, but in many places (including many companies), being "too smart" or "too creative" can unfortunately get you kicked out or laid off.

But it’s a TV show. How about I. Reality. People who win with brain intelligence really got kicked out?

They can't. The whole concept of casinos would fall apart if that happened. People who could game the system would win all the money and put them out of business. For example, the casino needs to be able to make money from the roulette game, and they do make money if people are playing completely randomly (because of the number 0). If everybody did what Sheldon did it's possible they would lose money (despite the number 0) and have to shut down.

So they are allowed to scam people but not other way around. I think it should be allowed or they should make the bets more fair, like the margin they make on pay outs is huge.

The thing is what Sheldon supposevly did is impossible. You can't predict a Roulette Wheel, it just doesn't work. Card Counting used to be a working strategy, but Casinos largely fixed that already the easy way for them, they use 5 decks instead of the previously used 2. And they mix way more often (dunno how often), but basically they took care that despite card counting you still can't shift the odds in your favor.

@George Lionon If you want to come off as smart at least say it is highly improbable to be able to predict a roulette wheel. It definitely would be possible to predict roulette wheel.

Well if you're counting just being lucky... okay.

Honest when it suits him, naïve most of the time.

Since when has honesty ever not gotten anyone in trouble?

He deserved it

you think?? who is paying for all those "free" drinks and glittering lights? Now remember the 'Free" covid money, the student debt forgiveness and "earned" income tax credit... its the same game, same people, just a different arena.

Its not if u win a lot. Its if ur using a system to win. Basically u can get lucky and win alot and they wont kick u if it doesnt seem like ur planning it.

@@MisaelMatute76 it doesnt matter. Casinos are basically stealing money from people and if you are good at the game they ban you. The person doesnt cheat, just playing smart = ban. Thats just plain wrong.

@@Koudy111 Perhaps that says something about society itself. blBecause like in a Casino, in life you either luck out and make big or you cheat the system.

@@Koudy111 Not stealing money when the people are willingly handing it over :)

Sometimes the good guys never get the chance. Well, it is a sit-com. Usually they have to follow the script and all....

So you also do not engage in sex with your love interest?

@@ValleDelSergio He can count both hands the amount of times.

This was actually done by a family from Spain in the 90's. They made millions. You can't do it anymore because the regularly change out the wheels and adjust them so that the bias is removed .

In regards to number 2, that was effectively what Sheldon was testing. A Chi Square test is often used to determine if the difference from expected value is due to chance or due to the influence of some variables.

@@Smasher0404 You're not wrong, but it doesn't matter here. There's no indication here of exactly how long he was tracking this, but the character does say "hours". Jagger tracked 6 wheels over 5 weeks to prove a bias. There just aren't enough trials here to make this valid. In reality, that wheel would be checked for balance way before any bias could be accurately proved. That's why they check them as much as they do. Not to mention that if a certain area of the wheel is hit with a great regularity in even so short of a time as an hour, security would be notified and the game would be shut down.

@@daveamsbaugh2990 It really depends on the confidence level both Sheldon and the Casino were using for their Chi Square Test. Jagger was fairly meticulous, and thus would have a very high confidence level (probability-speaking) that the wheel was in fact biased. My guess (having not seen the episode), is that the Casino was also obviously monitoring the wheel, and when the pit boss was approaching Sheldon because he was already on his way to order the wheel to be replaced. That's probably why they would also be willing to make the assumption his plan would be successful. They were also monitoring the wheel, and know that it was unbalanced (which a Chi Square test would also reveal.) Honestly, the biggest problem though with Sheldon's strategy was that he was consolidating his bets to a string of "a few large bets". Beyond making it obvious that the wheel is biased, it would have also put him at higher risk of losing all his money (since a small string of bad luck would wipe out more money, that a series of small bets could recover from on average).

You need to get out more !

Jagen Since he got married.

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Apparently that's where he keeps his chi-squared tables for hypothesis testing

Its writing the result down from hundreds of spins, clipboard contains no math

It is kind of a sad poetic , yet comical ending....

I mean he did nothing at that point so they are far more likely to go ok by. It took him standing there for hours to find the advantage in play so not something that could be replicated easier.

it's not the mafia days you'll just get 86d

That actually is a fun fact.

@@KRS2000 Mah Booooi!

No, it's an "☝Innntresting fact..." (Sheldon's voice)

@@justme-gd4gq That works too 😁

I thought the show was about lame jokes you see coming a mile off and overuse of laugh trax.

Really? Wow didnt see that

I imagine that they'd been watching him for a while. If someone was standing in front of roulette table and writing results down, it's likely they're cheating.

@@jietroraximoff2805 Not necessarily, most people that do something like this believe they have a system, like they think a specific number hasn't landed after a certain number of spins then it's due to come in. There are plenty of casinos that give players notepads specifically to track wheel numbers, cause they know more often than not if someone has come up with a system that it's a losing system that just had a temporary hot streak and they will lose. The overwhelming majority of system players lose more than people that just place bets for fun, so the casinos are quite happy to just let them sit there with their notepads and think they've figured something out. However, Sheldon had identified that the wheel has a bias and using this information goes against house rules.

I hope you are aware that humans are ageing.

He was also more mature. As a child he wore oxford shirts and ties. As a professional man he dresses like a child.

@@BurkeanMama Peoples tastes in outfits change ya know

And less unlikeable.

For what they can kick anyone out? Did Sheldon do something criminal? No. He just showed the whole essence of the casino.

@@user-cq1uu8rm6w Its private property Can you kick someone out of your house? Yes- Same thing here

@@huzaifakhambhati8767 you are saying nonsense. Nobody can just enter my house like it were his own house without paing any attention to me🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@@huzaifakhambhati8767 so it isn't same thing

@@user-cq1uu8rm6w you're right no one can enter your house without your permission however if you let someone in to your house and then ask them to leave they have to leave same thing with casinos they let everyone in but they can make anyone leave

WyattW sheldon's books smarts vs his street smarts cracks me up lol

WyattW gosh me too LMBOOOOO

WyattW I never started laughing so it was easy for me

Big bang theory really isn't that funny anymore. It's sad to see how down hill the show has become.

I couldn't laugh at this LOL!

What are you talking about?

@@youmustcreateachanne idiots are not allowed here, go to The Office.

@@adrianhansen2784 Dont compare The Office to this trash show.

and how exactly, games are rigged, there is no way , a mathematician knows not to get invloved..

@@zada4a I mean she didn’t always win, she said it gave her more of an edge. I think she also stuck with Poker more so.

@@Storm_Bird456 yes you can get a less losing strategy as a mathematician for sure. And Poker yes, that one is great, thats what I play in casino too. Then if I go on the roulette I lose all my poker wins

@@zada4a yeah, true. I mean, she no longer does it. Also, she was on the that Channel 4 poker game from the late 1990/Early 2000s, though she ended up loosing.

This scientist was Edward O. Thorp. The story about him and blackjack is quite interesting.

The one on Ile Notre Dame?

I mean you can just use your phone lol. We are not living in the 1970s anymore.

You don't have to go to a casino. If you go to a casino you don't have to drink. If you go to a casino you don't have to make stupid bets, there are smart ones that have the odds very close to even. You can also make bets of basically any size you want, most casinos I've been to have a $5 minimum bet table, or the slots that go even lower. But they're also a business and they'd prefer it if you were drunk because you make stupid bets. Just like amazon would prefer if you shop drunk as you're more likely to make more purchases. But if you count cards you tip the odds out of their favor and into your favor, so they stop making a profit, and as a business they are trying to make money, and they don't have to allow someone who is going to hurt their profit. That's just capitalism. Plus in terms of gambling the Casino's offer far better odds than something like the government sponsored lottery that has an expected return of like 50 cents on the dollar, where the casino usually bottoms out at around 80 cents.

wow it's almost like gambling is a predatory industry and that's why it's illegal in a lot of places

Except when it's state run and the odds are far more in the house / states favor than in any casino then it's all good!

Tad Meissner Why should I care if FuckFace Mcgee with his wad of cash is losing business in a place where drunk people are taken advantage of and where, despite being games of chance, people get kicked out for having game experience and know probability? People go to casinos to flip their money, not throw it away. I'd have better luck investing 2k in strippers and hookers than wasting it at a place with the ill intention of taking it away from me.

They're a business behaving like every other business does. I don't understand the condemnation. They sell various products at their gaming tables. A blackjack table is no longer profitable for them if you cheat at the game and count cards. It's not illegal but it kills their profit. So they don't allow that. What other business would continue selling a product they were just losing money on? I'm all for reigning in crazy capitalism run amok screwing people, but this makes it so they can't make a profit on the game. That seems like a pretty reasonable move for them to make.

Also, casinos will do everything possible to prevent you from leaving with any sizable winnings. Try it, it's hilarious.

@@ezekielbrockmann114 By trying to convince you to hang around and keep playing (and hopefully losing and they get some of your winnings back)?

Winning a couple thousand is nothing for the casinos. Even winning 10K odds are you will only get a small room and some dinner coupons. It is the whales they try to get to stay, those who bring a couple million at a time.

ya thanks for repeating the joke that we just saw

@@khl2445 You’re welcome! 🙂

@@anthonyanguiano5348 is 2022, learn new jokes bud

@@khl2445 and you learn to grow a sense of humor, troll. 🙂

Yeah a better scenario was him getting kicked out for counting cards

They would if you just told them that you had identified a bias in one of their wheels. It's against the house rules to use such knowledge to your advantage.

@@24magiccarrot They would also immediately shut down the wobbly wheel.

Do you think anybody has ever tried to invent a ball that "knows" where to land? Given the lengths that some people will go to, to win at gambling I would be surprised if it hadn't been tried. You would need some sort of shiftable mass inside the ball and some sort of "GPS"-like reciever so it knows it's position at any given moment.

There are plenty of us Sheldon Cooper type's out here in the real world, who forget the small things like our names. or forge how to get home. I 've done it many times.

Oh they are out there believe me.

Jimmy Andersson Good for you!! :)

its been years now. how much are you in debt?

@@Irzani938 no dept.. Stopped playing after i lost The profits

@@jimmyandersson5135 wp

@@jimmyandersson5135 tip for next time... stop playing before you lose all the profits...

Alexandra Cabriales what if they have no proof that you are counting cards

That in itself should be illegal. It’s just trying to stop smart people getting money when in reality they haven’t done anything wrong. Looking at the board without looking under the table to try and see what is underneath the card is not wrong. That’s if anything what you are supposed to do.

T H doesn't matter, they can just throw you out and black list you any way

GNerdful without any Season?

T H pretty much yeah, at least in Nevada.

he was gone the minute the dude saw him writing in his diary.

combat1917 Yep, you never tell black men anything. You just let them stay in their dimly lit imaginary victimhood world.

curt hayes - well aren't you a piece of racist shit?

good thing

curt hayes that's raciest dumbass.

They’d push him out of the plane first.

Yep I'm glad this comment here. Card counters are the only ones they truly give a shit about because that is the one area of the Casino where analytics can truly defeat the house edge. In fact the casinos run a number board on roulette tables now showing the last few dozen numbers that have hit to encourage this kind of behavior in people.

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Also hole-carding,. promotion abuse, etc.

Go to any casino and watch the Baccarat tables. You will find a bunch of very wealth Asian players taking notes about the way the previous hands went. Casinos don't care because unlike in blackjack, Baccarat (mini) has no player input, every hand is dealt in a certain manner.

Apparently stolen copyright-protected TV footage is ok with RU-vid.

Your calculations with that strategy - betting on new drug release, is probably more fruitless than counting cards. Pharma business is extremely complicated, unpredictable and work in behind the doors. Unless you work in the trails, have connection in FDA, have insiders in the company’s lab. Then you are not gambling but committing crimes of insider trading.

That's worse than gambling. That's betting.

Benjbenjbenjj maybe but why would they do that?

Raj parents divorced and they dont give a crap of their jar raj kootropali

I sure am happy you specified which raj they dont give a crap about

Benjbenjbenjj that's probably their entire net worth, no way in hell they could cover that much money

Nope! They are not THAT rich!

pie pie Viva las gagus

Joshua Taylor Madison If only you could do that for the lottery.

HARIKRISHNAN M he already said hes saving them....have you not seen all the seasons?

msalazar689 nah man...shows boring

2:10 Pelican (s) the Warriors' next opponent in round 2 of NBA playoffs.

ir10031981 New Orleans worst basketball team name. :(

Chad Kase I cheer for the Pelicans because of their stupid name.

drz I don't understand how we bought the hornets then lost it. We need are original basketball team name, "The Jazz".

Chad Kase anthony davis is the only thing keeping them up rn

Unless the wheel is broken which I guess is what they're implying? But yeah definitely a bad game to "outsmart" they should've had him counting cards at blackjack!

In theory but there are always variables

Yeah there are the wheel could be seriously broken. But it would have to be a pretty major flaw. The casino's would actually prefer if you kept track of all the craps rolls, or all the roulette spins because then you bet sub-optimally thinking something is "due" or something is more likely to come up. When in reality random means there are groupings where double 1's are thrown out back to back, or a black 7 comes up two or even three times in a row. Doesn't mean it's any more likely to come up the 4th time.

Yes but the ball is still subject to wear and tear and by observing how the ball bounces from spin to spin, you can make an educated guess where it will land next, that's why the ball gets swapped out , much like how the dice get swapped out in craps and cards get swapped out in the card games,

The amount of wear and tear the ball has in the hour before they swap it out is equivalent to 0 for practical purposes.

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Thank you, Captain Obvious.

Lol i just learn that in school

Jeez mansplaining at its best

Diane Scholes you are truly ignorant.

Some cassinos will even tell you the last numbers, hot numbers, color probability etc. And let's be honest, no matematian would bet on the roulette based in the last plays

Yes they do and you likely end up beeing blacklisted and banned from any casino on the Vegas strip

gorbulas it doesn't hurt to have a laugh track at every two words they say either

I see you haven't met Sheldon Cooper.

For noting all the mechanics behind the winning you can. You are not allowed to calculate how to win.

Correction, you can as long as you don't suck at keeping it a secret.

Really? :O

Yep

May Sal Typically no. They can choose to kick you out, but that's rare unless you're actually doing something wrong. There is no trick to roulette btw.

not rigging, just for being about to win

daydodog is that really a thing they do?

Unfortunately yes. While it is any businesses right to refuse service, in real life they can and are often sued for physcially throwing someone out like that.

Ollie, that was actually an accurate portrayal of the way organized gambling operates.

He got taken away for WRITING NUMBERS

Then go live a pain free life.

Feel free to watch something else.

@@youmustcreateachanne u shut up