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I'm going through the Programming With a Purpose course on Coursera, and trying to come up with my own implementation of some of the example programs before looking at the example. I just finished the example of a gambling situation. I was hoping to get some more eyes on my code and be told whether my version is going to behave differently from the example. Due to the nature of simulations, I can't just compare the output of the two, since it will vary.

This is the explanation of what the code is meant to represent:

Gambler (PROGRAM 1.3.8) is a simulation that can help answer these ques tions. It does a sequence of trials, using Math.random() to simulate the sequence of bets, continuing until the gambler is broke or the goal is reached, and keeping track of the number of wins and the number of bets.

Mine:

 java

    
public class Gambler
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int stake = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        int initialStake = stake;
        int goal =