For years now I've been wondering how to take advantage of the doubles STRAIGHT. There are only 270 of them total. I thought about this because when I first joined LP many years ago, I created a system that was called "900 possibilities gone". I figured that I could eliminate 900 possible str8 combos by playing every number in the first position 0-9, and ONLY picking one pair for the back pair. That would eliminate 900 combos right off the bat. Since every number in the first position was covered, all you had to do is to pick the back pair, which only has 100 possible combos. At a cost of 10 bucks, you had a better chance of winning straight with only 1 in 100 odds. But the catch was that it cost $10.00 every time.
So for years I've been wrapping my head around doing the same with ONLY doubles. Since there are only 270 combos, and applying the same facts with my original idea in the above paragraph, I figured that my odds would now be 1 in 27. But I couldn't see the clear picture. Something was bothering me and I couldn't put my finger on it. It was too good to be true.
This is where you guys/gals come in. Below is a list of all 270 doubles STRAIGHT. I saw that no matter what back pair you chose, there will only be Two of them.
For example, 39. There can only be two 39 back pairs as a double. 339 and 939. This is where I get confused. What is the new math here? two pairs for each pair you select out of 270 possible combos. To me this means the odds are cut in half... no? But here I get confused again. Half of 270 is 135, that's still 35 more combos than the idea I had in my first paragraph with all 1,000 possibilities cut down to 100. How is it possible that in theory, using the same rules in the first paragraph with all 1,000 possibilities, I end up with 35 more combos? .......But 1/10th of 270 is 27, not 135.
Maybe the solution is cutting the 135 in half again to 67.5?
My brain is hurting..
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