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| Lots of ways to cheat the wheel |
First, there are no betting systems or
strategies to beat roulette.
But there are five proven ways to do it and
they’re all called cheating.
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Pastposting
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Bet-switching
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Wheel-clocking
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Chip-color manipulation
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Dealer ball-control
Pastposting is the
art of making a bet after the roulette ball has already landed on the winning
number.
In roulette it’s usually done with a team
of at least two cheats, one of whom distracts the dealer while the other makes
a lightning-quick bet a split-second after the spinning ball drops into a
number on the rotating wheel.
The key for success is that the distraction
be subtle, not something stupid like spilling a drink on the layout.
One that works extremely well is an angry
man making a fuss in front of the table at the crucial moment. All it takes is
getting the dealer’s eyes off the layout for the fraction of a second needed to
make the late bet.
Bet-switching is a stronger form of pastposting that increases the amount of a
legitimate bet made before the ball was spun.
After the winning number is determined, the
bet-switcher picks up the original bet off the layout and replaces it with a
new, usually much bigger bet. The move is far more complicated than a simple
pastpost and is carried out by very professional teams using a series of
ingredients.
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The Set-up
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The Psychology
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The Switch
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The Claim
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The Bet-back
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The Disappearing Act
Say an original
$10 bet straight-up on a number is to be switched to a $100 after that number
wins.
The person who eventually “claims” the switched-in bet makes a legitimate
set-up bet of $100 straight-up on a
number. Win or lose, he leaves the table but remains close by.
The psychology comes into play when the
claimer returns to the same table a bit later to claim the bogus $100 bet and
$3500 payoff. The dealer and supervisor will remember that they’d already seen
him make an identical bet.
The switch goes down with the aid of
logistical distractions caused by bet-patterns other team members make that
control the dealer’s movements, enabling the window necessary for the “mechanic”
to switch out the two $5 chips he´d bet and replace them with a $100 chip
covered by a $5 chip.
The “claimer” returns to the table as soon
as the mechanic has made the switch, claiming the $100 chip now lying beneath
the $5 chip on the winning number. He is paid $3500.
He now “bets-back” $100 on the same winning
number, further enhancing the psychological element of the move. Had the
claimer left immediately after being paid $3500 for a $100 bet nobody had seen
placed, the casino is more likely to get suspicious.
Win or lose the
bet-back, the claimer does his “disappearing
act,” immediately leaving the casino. The mechanic and the rest of the team
soon follow suit.
Wheel-clocking is the art of
identifying biased wheels, those that by defect or wear-and-tear produce an
uneven distribution of winning numbers in the long-run.
The “clockers”
back in the day actually entered casinos with pad and pencil and charted
thousands of spins hoping to find biased numbers that came out more than once
every thirty-seven or thirty-eight spins, depending on zero and double-zero
wheels.
Today’s wheels
are constructed with better materials and tested and re-tested to eliminate any
bias, and maintained like sensitive military equipment to make sure they stay
that way.
The High-Tech Clockers
They are armed
to the teeth with everything from Google Glasses to roulette computers to
digital cameras to smart phones to laser scanners. All this high-tech equipment
is programmed to clock revolutions of the ball and the speed of the spinning
wheel to calculate quadrants into which the ball will land.
We first heard
of this in 2004 when an Eastern European team beat a pair of casinos in
Budapest for a cool million. Then came similar high-tech roulette attacks in
popular London casinos. Again the digital and laser booty was in the millions.
How they do it
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Expensive laser scanners often
bought from the dark side of the Internet.
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Clocking teams practice in
workshops with real roulette wheels.
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Wardrobes that house and hide
their equipment are tailor-made.
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Team enters casino and
legitimately plays other games besides roulette to hide true motive.
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It hits the wheel, one member
clocking and signaling the high-roller, who places big wagers in the proper
quadrants.
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Often a third member stands
outside the table with jamming equipment so surveillance doesn’t pick up
electronic signals.
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They cash out and leave after
short periods of play to avoid detection.
In today’s
casino wars, the high-tech roulette cheats battle constantly with casino
surveillance departments, each upgrading its electronic equipment in response
to what the other has implemented.
The huge risk to
wheel-clocking cheats is that in nearly all casino jurisdictions, anyone
cheating in casinos with the help of equipment is charged with a major felony.
In fact, in some
jurisdictions like Nevada, it’s a felony to even possess roulette devices
inside casinos—even if they’re turned off!
Chip-color manipulation
This is one of
the easiest scams in roulette, and it’s a favorite of women casino hustlers who
love playing.
The scam follows
these simple steps.
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Woman #1 plays at a roulette
table and buys $100’ worth of pink $1 roulette chips.
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She plays for several spins and
then cashes out all but five of her $1 chips.
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She leaves the table and passes
off the five $1 chips to Woman #2.
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Woman #2 goes to another
roulette table and buys $100’ worth of pink $10 roulette chips.
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She covertly adds to her pink
stack the five $1 pink roulette chips Woman #1 had given her.
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She plays for a several spins
and then cashes out all her pink chips, including the five $1 pink chips from
Woman #1.
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The dealer is duped into
thinking that those five $1 chips were part of the stack of $10 chips she
bought at the table, since all the chips are identically pink.
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Woman #2 is paid $50 for five
roulette chips that Woman #1 had bought for $5 at the first roulette table,
making a $45 profit.
It may seem surprising
that this rinky-dink scam works so often, but it does. Even though all roulette
chips are marked with a letter designating to which table they belong, there’s
always confusion with these chips as many disappear off the table, mostly as
tips given to cocktail waitresses who later redeem them for their original
value at the table.
Dealer ball-control
Can roulette
dealers actually affect where the ball will land on the spinning wheel?
Most people are
quite skeptical, but like in craps where some dice-throwers can control the
outcome of their rolls to a certain degree, some roulette dealers have similar
talents dealing their roulette wheels.
How it’s done
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Dealer gets to know the inner
grooves of his wheel and begins timing his spins.
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He gets familiar with certain
dead spots on the wooden plates that affect the initial and subsequent bounces.
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He hooks up with a partner who
comes to his wheel to play.
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If the partner was not told
beforehand how and where to bet, the dealer inconspicuously signals him at the
table.
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Just a minimum of accuracy by
the dealer will result in handsome profits over the long haul.
The Best of ’em all
Ball control by
roulette dealers has been very popular for decades, especially in Europe.
In 1973, one
innovative French roulette dealer took roulette ball-control to the hilt. He
sculpted his own roulette ball and embedded an electronic receiver inside it.
He snuck the ball into play, and his beautiful female cohort placed large bets
as she held a pack of Marlboro cigarettes.
Unbeknownst to
the casino, the Marlboro pack contained a transmitter. When the foxy lady
gambler subtly pressed it, the spinning roulette ball went into a controlled
dive and landed in the specified six-number quadrant more times than not.
They earned $5
million but finally got caught when the casino owner began wondering why foxy
lady never lit up a cigarette.
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