Beating $50:50$ chances, limit the risk

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Just wondering. If you flip a coin there are $50:50$ chances you will get the correct side. But if you flip a coin $10,000$ times, you might find yourself in a position, where you would choose the wrong answer for $10$ times in a row.

If you double your bet, that means you lose $x \times n$ money... But is there a way you would limit the risk in a $50:50$ game?

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Probability is just a concept of finding how much chance a certain event has. Even if we have a probability of 0.99 of an event occuring, we can't say it will actually happen even if we were to repeat the experiment infinitely.

Unless we have absolute 1 or zero probability, we can't be sure of the outcome. In such a case, getting 10 heads in consecutive tosses is not a big deal and it is something we can't control (fairly).

It is important to know that chance is the only thing we can predict before an experiment, not what the outcome would be.

50-50 chance is the actual representation itself of what we can predict before the experiment. Unless you can somehow change the odds itself, ýou can't be sure of occuring of an event in an experiment.