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title: "December 2006"
url: https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/
description: "Entries filed in December 2006: The gambler's fallacy and independent trials, Slot reels, virtual reels and the weighting problem, Reading a craps layout."
published: 2006-12-01
updated: 2006-12-01
---

# December 2006

Published 2006-12-01

3 entries filed in this month

## [The gambler's fallacy and independent trials](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/gamblers_fallacy.html)

Posted 19 December 2006 at 22:40

A sequence of independent trials has no memory. The persistent belief that it does is old enough, and stubborn enough, to have earned a name of its own.

Posted in [Probability](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/cat_probability.html) | [Permalink](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/gamblers_fallacy.html)

## [Slot reels, virtual reels and the weighting problem](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/virtual_reels.html)

Posted 12 December 2006 at 18:07

A physical reel has a fixed number of stops. A virtual reel has as many as the designer wants, and the mapping between the two is where the payout table is really set.

Posted in [Machine games](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/cat_machine_games.html) | [Permalink](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/virtual_reels.html)

## [Reading a craps layout](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/reading_a_craps_layout.html)

Posted 4 December 2006 at 13:22

The layout is dense, symmetrical and almost entirely legible once the arrangement of the printed regions is understood as a map of when each wager resolves.

Posted in [Table games](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/cat_table_games.html) | [Permalink](https://velagamingprime.com/archives/2006/12/reading_a_craps_layout.html)