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Message: [QUOTE="detroitjunkie, post: 2965845, member: 61462"] Ive written in the past about what I call the 'luck zone' - imagine luck is a string of heads and tails flips, where heads is a win and tails is a loss just for having a better hand than someone else. I have run programs that flip coins, I ran it 5 times for 1k flips, and each time there was a zone where one side hit over 25 times in a row. How many coin flips can exist in say 1000 years? At one a day thats 365,000 flips. With this number, we can suspect that in the flip model there would be a side that hits 9,000+ times in a row. This zone does exist somewhere on the time line, if your life falls into this zone, you will flip a coin and have it be tails (or say lose with a better hand) 9k+ times in a row., and that may encompass your entire life. Obviously this is a 50/50 scenario, but in theory of large numbers items with worse odds will also appear a significant amount of times in a row [/QUOTE]