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Attempts to Beat the Game of Roulette

Albert Einstein once said "To beat the roulette table, you have to take some money from it."

Nevertheless, the various equal money wagers in roulette have encouraged a lot of players through the years to try and defeat the game by using more than one version of the Martingale Betting system. As discussions of the Martingale system declares, there are a lot of fundamental flaws in its execution and that inevitably the result will lead to huge monetary losses. Still, another technique namely the Fibonacci method, wherein wagers are computed depending on the Fibonacci sequence, was introduced. Despite the particular order, this system proved futile as well.

A roulette betting system was described by Andres Martinez, an editor of the New York Times. In his book entitled "24/7", he used the term "dopey experiment". The idea is to split your session money into 35 units which is based on a specific number good for 35 consecutive turns of the wheel. Therefore, if the number is hit on the specified number of times, the gambler gains back his original money and can make more spins with casino money.

There is a wrong impression that the green numbers are "casino numbers" and that by placing bets on them can obtain some house advantage. It is reality that the edge of the house are derived from the presence of the green numbers but they are roughly possible to be hit than any other numbers.

Different attempts have been exerted by engineers to defeat the advantage of the house by means of forecasting the mechanical functioning of the wheel, most significantly by Joseph Jagger, credited for breaking a Monte Carlo bank in 1873. These systems were effective in a sense that they determined in what number the ball is likely to land. In 1961, Claude Shannon, credited for contributing to the field of information theory, designed the first wearable computer to have successfully determined what number would be hit by the ball.

In order to avoid something like this, the casinos keep track of their wheels, balancing and realigning them on a regular basis to maintain the outcome of the spins random.

A computer to replicate roulette wheel tendencies at one of the casinos in Madrid was designed by Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo during the early years of the 1990s. He placed a bet on the most possible numbers. Together with family members, he bagged more than a million dollars spread through several years. The legitimacy of his technique was questioned by the casino but the court favored his claims.

In 2004, a technique known as sector targeting was reportedly utilized by a certain group of people in London. With the use of mobile camera phones, the path of the ball was predicted. In December of that same year, the court claimed that no cheating was involved because the camera phones as well as the microchips did not have an effect on the ball. The group won a total of 1.3 million British pounds.