At 05:24 UTC on September 23, moneymanice bought a $5 Keno ticket. It missed. So did the next one. Then $10, $20, $20, $40, $320 and $320. The ninth ticket, at 05:29, was $640, and it paid 82.16x: $52,583.
That's the doubling system, and it shows up all through their history. On the 22nd we recorded tickets of $10, $40, $80, $160, $160, $160: each miss followed by a bigger bet. It's one of the oldest ideas in gambling. It works until the run of misses is longer than the bankroll.
Then the morning got out of hand
After a three-hour break they came back at 08:29 with $800 and hit 82.12x (+$64,896). At 08:44, $2,040 hit 81.79x (+$164,813). Then came a run of $200 to $1,600 tickets that all missed, and then this:
| Ticket (UTC) | Staked | Paid | Profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:24:09 | $1,999.94 | 81.80x | +$161,591 |
| 09:25–09:26 | 2 × $250 | — | −$500 |
| 09:27:48 | $1,999.92 | 81.80x | +$161,590 |
| 09:31:00 | $3,105.11 | 81.51x | +$249,992 |
| 09:32:20 | $3,105.17 | 81.51x | +$249,997 |
| 09:36:28 | $2,499.97 | 81.67x | +$201,664 |
Five hits in twelve minutes, worth $1,024,834 in profit. Two of them came 80 seconds apart. Nine minutes after the last Keno ticket, moneymanice put $2,000 on castle roulette and hit the 48x green coin. That was the spin we wrote about in our castle roulette report.
Eight tickets, $16,190 staked, $1.32 million back.
The account behind it
Here's the twist. Duel's high-score table last updated moneymanice at 08:49 UTC, which is after the first three hits but before the big five. At that point the account showed $2.2 million wagered all time and −$445,063 in profit, on $1.15 million deposited and $674,000 withdrawn.
So this morning didn't make moneymanice a winner so much as dig them out of a deep hole. The next update of the table will show how much of the $1.02 million they kept.