Can Roulette Be Rigged?
Gamblers who don't understand the inner workings of a casino sometimes wonder if the games they play are set up fairly. When a casino patron loses against a slot machine, for example, he or she might wonder if the machine was somehow rigged. Authentic roulette eliminates some of this suspicion because it makes use of a physical wheel that is spun by hand. An electronic roulette game could be rigged, however, as Pierre Coulon proved when he used his laptop recently to remotely help a female friend win a jackpot at the Paris Casino in Blackpool, England.
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Coulon was the managing director of the Paris Casino at the time of the incident. Upon investigation, officials discovered that the surveillance cameras normally trained upon the facility's electronic roulette game had been moved. Coulon later admitted to manipulating the outcome of the game via laptop so his female friend could win some cash. He cited a dispute with his business partner and co-owner of the casino as the reason why he committed the crime. Prior to this event, Coulon, who spent 40 years working in the gambling industry, had no instances of criminal activity in his personal record.
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About Roulette Wheel Bias
Roulette is a game of chance, but a person's chance of winning or losing can definitely be affected by wheel bias. A biased wheel is one that does not select numbers completely at random. Physical irregularities and normal wear and tear can alter a wheel in a way that causes it to favor certain numbers more than others. This irregularity, if discovered by a casino patron, can boost his or her odds of winning tremendously. For this reason, casinos do everything they can to detect such flaws and prevent customers from taking advantage of an edge in their favor.
Bias Caused by Wheel Manufacturers: Not Likely
Gambling equipment manufacturers are aware of the potential for irregularity and the great harm a defective wheel could ultimately do to a casino's bottom line. For this reason, wheels are manufactured to extremely high standards. A concentrated effort is made to ensure that all wheels are perfectly symmetrical and homogenous in weight and texture. A manufacturer of bum equipment would quickly go out of business, after all. Bias caused by the manufacturers is, therefore, highly unlikely.
Bias Caused by Normal Wear and Tear: Likely
A roulette wheel is spun thousands of times per day; it is only natural that wear and tear would gradually break it down. Sometimes the ball hits the wood with such force it becomes chipped, causing weight to be unevenly distributed. Sometimes 'rotor wobble' develops, in which the wheel gradually becomes crooked due to routine cleanings in which the rotor is removed from the spindle. Sometimes 'pocket defects' occur. In this situation, certain number pockets become slightly enlarged due to repeated force, or the felt between the pockets loosens, causing abnormalities in ball recoil. Any or all of these situations can occur during the lifetime of a roulette wheel, causing bias.
Wheel bias in itself is not harmful, or helpful, to anyone. The phenomenon only becomes harmful to the house when patrons discover it and develop their own personal ways to capitalize upon it. Similarly, wheel bias is only helpful to patrons if they realize it's there and seize the opportunity to profit from it.
Joseph Jagger Rips Off the Beaux-Arts Casino in 1873
Roulette wheel bias is nothing new, nor is the casino patron's desire to capitalize upon it. Almost 150 years ago, a man named Joseph Jagger won 65,000 pounds from Monte Carlo's Beaux-Arts casino through his knowledge of the facility's weakest wheel. Jagger spent time studying all six of the casino's wheels and deduced that one of them favored a grouping of nine adjacent numbers. After a fair amount of suspicious winning, the Beaux-Arts caught on to Jagger's tactics and tried to move the games around the room order to confound him. In the end, however, the gambler's profit was much higher than that of the house.
One Century Later: Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo Wins Big in Madrid
Over 100 years later, at the Casino de Madrid in the 1990s, Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo happened upon a defect that won him over a million euros over the course of several days. The casino eventually figured out what Garcia-Pelayo was doing and tried to sue, but the courts ruled in the gambler's favor, saying it was the casino's responsibility to maintain their equipment.
The Dealer Controls the Ball
The outcome of electronic table games can be controlled by computer, as Coulon showed the world in the Blackpool incident. The outcome of authentic games can be capitalized upon by scrutinizing players who have correctly identified an equipment defect. One last question remains: can a roulette dealer, or croupier, purposefully determine where a ball will land?
Debate exists as to whether croupiers can control the outcome of their spins. Anecdotally, some croupiers claim to possess this superior skill. Skeptics are quick to point out, however, that the wheel and its ball are spun in different directions, making it nearly impossible to control the outcome of a spin. It would take an extreme amount of fine motor coordination and muscle memory for a croupier to purposefully dictate this outcome.
For over a century, people have been looking for ways to cheat the roulette wheel and win big money. Whether through electronics or the identification of a physical equipment problem, this goal is occasionally achieved. For those who wonder if casinos sometimes cheat their patrons by rigging machinery, the answer is yes. In the case of roulette wheel bias, it is sometimes the patrons who cheat the casinos.
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By Ion Saliu, Founder of Roulette Mathematics
Posted on May 16, 2001; later updates.
I received several emails from a European gambling pal. There is a very interesting announcement: an automatic type of roulette wheel. Following are excerpts from our exchange of gambling ideas.
'Ion:
We talked a little about gambling in the past but we did not continue. In the meantime, I found a very interesting 'electronic-automatic' roulette table with a single-zero wheel. Eight players can sit around and each one has an electronic roulette table layout. With the finger, you 'touch' the bet(s) you would like to play on the next spin. You can bet exactly all bets you can play at normal roulette tables and cover as many numbers as you want. The best is that you can sit at table and there is no croupier who could affect your play, and you do not have other people behind you who could watch how you play.
And now the best part: in the center of square table is a real single zero wheel which rotates around and air compressor catapults a real small roulette ball (instead by the croupier) around the wheel in 1 minute intervals. So all players (up to 8) are dependent of the same single spin. Some more details about the wheel:
- Diameter is about 90 to 100 cm (1 meter) - it looks similar as real roulette wheel.
- the ball is catapulted only counter-clockwise in every spin AND the wheel is rotated only clockwise every time.
- after the ball drops into the slot (number), then in next 10 seconds the wheel stops rotating. Then the roulette wheel moves back 3 cm - enough that the ball can drop under the wheel and come again to the position of catapulting.
Everything is automatic!!!
- The ball bounces and jumps around (because of frets and 8 diamonds)-exactly the same as at the real roulette table!!! (It is a real roulette table - difference is only that compressor catapults the ball.)
- Catapulting is always from the same place.
What do you think? Have you seen any similar tables? Do you think that this kind of table could be beaten? I also recorded more than 2000 roulette spins from it and will attach a file into this e-mail.'
Thank you for your info. I can see a great potential in that kind of roulette.
Yes, I like this roulette table, especially because there is no croupier who could affect my play. I feel quite comfortable playing and there is no rush in playing because none pushes you to make your bet (no request to play on every spin, either. I can sit all the night at that table without playing a single bet, if that's what I want!). I can play as many roulette numbers as I want (or all bets that can be played at real tables). '
• Ion: I haven't heard of that type of roulette in USA. Where is that game played, in what country?
• Frankie: Here in [Europe].
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• Ion: Can you tell me more about the payouts?
• Frankie: Payouts are the same as at normal roulette tables, so even money bets 1:1, dozen/column 2:1, six-lines 5:1,.., straight number 35:1.
The maximum bet for straight number is 50 units, for even money bets 180 units (and for all other bets the maximum limits are between these two levels (so for dozen/column 120 units,..)
• Ion: Is it forbidden to use paper and pencil?
• Frankie: Just the opposite!!! Casino offers paper and pens if players want to record roulette numbers. But the fact is that 98% of the players do not want to record roulette numbers.
• Ion: Maybe you read a post on my message board by an American casino executive. He threatened that they will not allow the use of paper in their casinos. Of course, their action would be illegal.
• Frankie: Yes, I read it (but please, send me address for your message board because I lost it after my computer troubles). It is crazy what that guy said and it is hard to imagine that from here.
• Ion: Where do you play, do you travel to other places in Europe?
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• Frankie: No, not yet and also no need so far. For that, I would need a bigger bankroll and, of course, a winning system.
(• Ion: I am a little paranoid, I can see in everybody a casino executive who wants his hands on my system. I'll talk to you more on this subject. For now, I sent you the new SPINS and the analysis of your data file. The free roulette system #1 hit 6 times in the first 500 spins of the FRANKI.ROU file).
• Ion: I'll analyze the data you sent me.
• Frankie: Yes, I would be very thankful you for the analysis and we will see if these tables can be beatable. (Please also let me know if I sent you both data files: my-sessions, another guy's sessions).
• Ion: The file has 2429 spins.
By the way: can I repost your message on my BBS?
• Frankie: Yes, you can, if you wish. But then correct any grammar mistakes I made and, please, do not mention my country (just write Europe). Hope to hear from you soon with some good news about analyses of data.
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