Lapsed_Lurker comments on Probability puzzle - Less Wrong Discussion
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I'm pretty sure that in the region of curiously-warped-coin-space near 'fair', you're not going to be able to come out ahead on average.
It's been nearly a couple decades since I studied any probability, but if these problems keep turning up, I might look it up and refresh my memory of it.