Super interesting. It seems to tap into the psychology of some people who gamble... they think the more times they lose, the more likely they win the next time. Why are humans wired this way?
Randomness is by (some) definition unpredictable. But humans are so eager for pattern recognition that they will see, or expect, patterns that just are not there.
"Pareidolia is the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music." and also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia#Causes
On a similar note, humans are terrible at coming up with random/unpredictable sequences. If you ask a group of test subjects to pick a random number between 1 and 10, you get a huge edge when you guess 3 or 7.