August 18, 1913, at the Monte Carlo Casino, during a famous roulette game, the ball reportedly landed on black 26 times in a row.


The gamblers became increasingly convinced that red was due to come up next, so they kept betting on red, but ended up losing more and more, reportedly losing millions of francs in total.
This incident later became the most classic example of the gambler's fallacy: people always think that a random event owes them a reversal, but probability doesn't necessarily work that way.
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