Abstract
The trials in the classical N-player gamblers' problem are repeated independently until one or more players get bankrupt. In this research, we present a game that is stopped when the number of trials first reaches the minimum of the initial budget set by the players. We executed this game for N players and determined the probability distribution of the fortune for both symmetric and asymmetric games. The exact expressions for the expected fortune and variance of the distribution are derived.
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