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In the United Kingdom
roulette law states that a player may not tamper or affect the ball in any way,
furthermore a player must not alter the state of the roulette wheel in any way
and finally, they must not do anything that would physically affect the outcome
of any individual roulette spin.
Mathematical or
mechanical roulette systems are not specifically prohibited as they should
technically be worthless in a game that is said to be random. Roulette is not
random of course and could therefore be taken advantage of by either players or
casino roulette dealers.
Most of my videos show
the player’s advantage but on my extra information page of my Visual Roulette
System you will also find how the croupier can take advantage too. I have not
myself ever been employed as a croupier but all the same system factors and
fundamentals apply and so it has always been a natural interest to develop a
method for spinning roulette number sections just for fun and practice.
Roulette Blitz
at the Ritz Casino
Roulette system sellers
like me are sometimes accused of writing about the Ritz scam in order to imply
that we may be the program inventor. Although I believe I have the best program
anywhere, I was not in any way connected to the Ritz team of players, though I
am sure you can imagine the level of interest it would have invoked with me.
There have for many
years been good wheels at the Ritz, that’s good wheels for the advantage player
I mean. It was not so much about the program that was used but more about the
originality of the method combined with the astronomical size of the bets.
1.3 million was won over
two days and a computer was definitely used to predict at a very high margin
level on a wheel that was biased.
It was reported in the
newspapers that a laser scanner was used to clock the wheel and that the reason
they were caught was because the casino CCTV picked up a laser beam.
The precise truth is
known by only a few because there was no case to answer and it never reached a
court room as they were not considered to be in breach of any UK law. If a scanner was used then it would have enabled a non manual input and
this would have had obvious advantages. However if scanners were used then it
was also said to have been the reason why they were caught, as it was reported
that the scanner was picked up by the cctv cameras and thus ending this style
of play before it had hardly started. To my knowledge this method of play is
now considered not viable.
The all important aspects
for me were firstly that it clarified the law in that they had to be paid their
winnings because they did not affect the wheel or ball in any way, indeed they
did not need to because the roulette wheel was already warped and biased.
Secondly it showed that
when you reach the peak of your roulette skill and know for certain when there
is a high margin on offer then the secret is to bet huge.
Nearly all my customers
have a winning edge at roulette and when a player says that he walks in with
$100 dollars and often turns it into about $2000 I immediately think of
pointing out just how much this could be just by changing the size of the bet.
It was rumoured that on
the second day the size of the bets were raised by 5 times and with the playing
conditions being good things just got crazy.
Times newspaper article 5th December 2004
Laser –sharp gamblers who
stung Ritz can keep £1.3m
A trio of gamblers who
pulled off an audacious coup at the Ritz in London using James Bond-style
gadgetry to calculate where the ball would land are to be allowed to keep their
£1.3m winnings, writes Maurice Chittenden.
Scotland Yard, which
seized cash and froze bank accounts during the nine month investigation into
the alleged ‘sting’, has decided there are no grounds to prosecute the
gamblers.
The gaming trio -
described by police sources as a ‘chic and beautiful’ Hungarian woman, aged 32
and two elegant Serbian men aged 32 and 38,
were alleged to have
smuggled a laser scanner linked to a micro-computer into the Ritz casino inside
a mobile phone.
The scanner measured the
speed of the roulette ball as the croupier released it, identified where it
dropped and measured the declining orbit of the wheel.
These three factors were
beamed to the micro computer which calculated into which section of numbers on
the wheel the ball would finally settle.
This information was
then flashed onto the screen just before the wheel makes its third spin by
which time all bets must be placed.
Having reduced their
odds from 37-1 to 6-1, the trio placed bets on all six numbers in that section
to ensure they would win.
On the first night they
won £100,000. They returned the next day to win £1.2m.
The gamblers cashed in
their chips and were paid £300,000 in cash and a £900,000 cheque.
The casino’s security
experts began examining the closed circuit television footage and officers from
the yard’s gaming squad arrested the trio staying at a hotel near by on
suspicion of obtaining their winnings by deception.
They have been reporting
back to the yard on police bail but they have now been told that they are free
to leave Britain.
The yard said ‘‘the case
has been stamped ‘no further action’ all the money Impounded at the outset of
the inquiry has been returned’’.
Legal sources said the
gamblers had to be let off because they had not violated any law. The scanner
did not interfere with the ball or roulette wheel. It provided information but
did not manipulate the game.
Dr. Mark Griffiths,
professor of gambling at Nottingham Trent University said
“ if these people get
off using this device, it opens up an avenue for others to try the same”.
The casino is beneath
the Ritz Hotel in Piccadilly. Both were bought by the Barclay brothers, sir
David and sir Frederick in a £75m deal in 1995. John Anderson a casino director
said “you have caught me at a bad time, I am not in a position to talk about
this”.
Times newspaper article 5th December 2004
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Wheel of
Fortune
It may not be a roulette
wheel this time but one of my favourite triumphs involved the wheel of Fortune
in the Amsterdam Casino. As many of you will already know, the wheel of fortune
is spun on its vertical axis and a leather strap will slowly decelerate the
wheel as the winning pockets pass by.
To make things very
tricky the tightness of the leather strap is tweaked slightly each day giving
rise to a different deceleration rate of the fortune wheel. The fact that they
need to change this tightness suggested to me that there was a reason why it
was necessary. If it was possible to read the wheel then they certainly would
need to change its action as frequently as possible. It is here that the
problem lay for the casino, in that players would always get at least a full
day on each setting and plenty of time to practice and acclimatize to each new
setting.
With the Wheel of
Fortune it is very important for the casino to call no more bets before the
wheel is spun, as not doing this will enable a professional to predict the most
likely result and gain a gamblers advantage. There was often an element of
confusion because so many players applied pressure to bet after the throw on
the basis that the dealer could otherwise throw the opposite section to the
popular bet area.
This pressure often
passed onto the dealers and so the casino in Amsterdam decided to get the
dealers to throw the wheel, then ask for the bets and then after calling ‘no
more bets’ giving the wheel another push. Many dealers didn’t get their heads
around the significance of this 2nd push process and a handful of
them consequently accepted bets after the second push.
By waiting around for
the right dealers we were able to predict after the throw and consequently do
rather well.
My roulette system and
special wins are far more significant for me but it goes to show that there are
openings and opportunities everywhere.
Law Breaking Roulette Scam Example
This next example of
scamming the roulette game involves actual cheating which directly affected the
action of the ball. It is easy to make a distinction here between legal systems
that use mathematical calculations as opposed to illegal systems that involve
‘fixing the roulette ball and /or roulette wheel’
This story involves a
group of mainly German players who were alleged to have created an
electromagnetic field and a remote control type of ball that they could control
into the small yet desired landing zone. Their first illegal step was to change
the casinos roulette ball for their own and the second was to affect where the
ball would drop.
This crooked system was
all very romantic and netted a few hundred thousand but there is a legal way of
playing roulette successfully and therefore that fact alone makes breaking the
law completely unnecessary and pointless.
By Michael Leidig in Vienna
Published: TELEGRAPH
15 Jan 2003
"A gang of conmen has won
hundreds of thousands of pounds from an Austrian casino by planting a
remote-controlled magnetic roulette ball on a table.
Police yesterday said
the five-strong gang used a concealed device near the table, possibly hidden in
a watch, to create an electromagnetic field and manipulate where the ball went
to within three spaces.
They did not win on
every spin, but improved the odds sufficiently to pick up £250,000 over several
weeks of regular visits to a Casinos Austria gambling house
in Velden, Carinthia.
The group, believed to
be four Germans and an Austrian, were only discovered when a croupier reached
across the table to pick the ball up and it stuck to his cufflink.
He immediately notified
his superiors, but by then the gang had fled.
Analysis of surveillance
camera footage indicates that the gang was made up of one gambler, two people controlling
the roulette ball and two more keeping watch and trying to distract attention
from their associates. Officials believe they may have struck elsewhere, moving
on every three months to avoid arousing suspicion.
Police and the casino
management were yesterday trying to work out how the gang managed to swap their
ball with the casino's. Once they had done so, they could take advantage of it
again and again as the balls are kept in a safe overnight and returned to the
same table.
Leo Wallner, the head of
Casinos Austria, said: "I am pleased that we have exposed this con and can
now act against it." Magnetic field detectors are to be installed
at all Casino Austria properties."
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