Did Your Billion Dollar Bracket Get Busted? Here Are the Odds of Other Wins and Loses
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Did the chance to win a cool $1,000,000,000 in the Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge get your inner gambler itching for some more action? Mine too. And since you’ve already entered a contest where the odds of you winning were 9.2 quintillion-to-1 (that’s 18 zeros), you might be thinking you’ll get better odds in your local casino.
That’s very possible according to the odds of “winning” at certain casino games. To give you an idea of how possible, here’s a list of you odds of winning at the casino, along with the odds of some other good, and not so good, things happening to you. And keep in mind, no matter what the odds are the house still always wins, eventually.
The Odds You Will:
Win the Billion Dollar Bracket: 9.2 quintillion-to-1
Win Powerball: 175,223,510-to-1
Get attacked by a shark: 11,500,000-to-1
Die in a plane crash: 11,000,000-to-1
Become president: 10,000,000-to-1
Become a movie star: 1,505,000-to-1
Get dealt a Royal Flush in poker: 649,739-to-1
Get struck by lightning: 134,906-to-1
Get killed by a dog: 122,216-to-1
Die in a skydiving accident: 60,000-to-1
Hit a hole-in-one: 12,500-to-1
Have triplets: 726-to-1
Killed getting hit by a car: 701-to-1
Born with extra fingers or toes: 500-to-1
Die from poisoning: 123-to-1
Die in a car crash: 108-to-1
Dealt three of a kind in poker: 46-to-1
Pick the right number in roulette: 36-to-1
Roll Snake Eyes in craps: 36-to-1
Have twins: 30-to-1
Get 21 in two cards in Blackjack: 20.72-to-1
Die from heart disease: 7-to-1
