I got the impression from the video that the croupier couldn’t get the exact result he wanted, but could gauge where the bets were placed to decrease the odds of a big loss for the house by choosing which part of the numbers he has it fall. If a big spender puts a lot on the 1st 12, the croupier could attempt to drop the ball in the 2nd or 3rd 12. Maybe someone else wins in those areas, but less than the house would have lost with the big spender.
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There’s a reason: I told @nimelennar that I liked their new profile picture, and within minutes I was offered my own version!! So, I’m proof of the old adage “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”!
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Has anyoen gotten Bingo yet?
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Late stage capitalism!
Every stage capitalism?
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I would love to witness this - and even more so some psychologist, or even better cognitive neurobiologist walking in on them…
Ah, the fun I would have.
Please. Pass me a Dry Martini, will you, Dear?
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There are different rules in different places for what happens to evens bets when 0 or 00 come up, which is why I gave the US house advantage as 5% in round numbers rather than 19/18. In a traditional French casino (a members club) the evens bets would be split or replayed on zero. The object of the house advantage was more to fund the club than profit the mob.
Edit - yes I obviously have spent too much time investigating roulette. It deserves study; it’s perhaps the most efficient legal way of impoverishing problem gamblers ever invented, while at the same time being perhaps the most elegant and formal gambling game. @LutherBlisset has a good point above.
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If the house didn’t have an advantage the game wouldn’t be available to the suckers.
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I always assumed that slot machines were even worse than roulette and this link I found on payback confirms:
http://www.americancasinoguide.com/slot-machine-payback-statistics.html
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If you enjoy watching the pictures spin around the cheap ones can be amusing, but otherwise you are probably better off just tossing your money into a waste bin.
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come in spinner!
two-up, the national game of australia, has 50-50 odds. we believe in a fair suck of the sav.
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don’t let that stop you; if you don’t bet you can’t win.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for love
Figure 1-1: American roulette wheel and traditional layout.
He’d have to be a pretty clever croupier to do this. You cannot just look at “1st dozen”, “2nd dozen”, “3rd dozen” on the table layout. Probably by design, it’s not easy to bet on “pie slices” of the wheel itself. You’d have to have the these sequences memorized:
The 1st dozen are: [0]-28-9-26-30-11-7-20-32-17-5-22-34
The 2nd dozen are: 15-3-24-36-13-1-[00]-27-10-25-29-12-8
The 3rd dozen are: 19-31-18-6-21-33-16-4-23-35-14-2
And be able to weight which are more laden with bets. Not so easy at all. You’d need something like this in your head:
Figure 1-2: American roulette wheel with modified layout.
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My wife and I got married in Vegas. Neither of us are gamblers, but, you know, we were in Vegas, and romance was in the air! We decided to put $10 on red.
We lost. We went and drank beer. Outstanding ROI.
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The point of gambling is to make money for house/book-keeper, so saying it’s rigged is like saying a shop is rigging it’s prices by charging the customer slightly more than they paid their supplier.
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Pfft. Amateurs.
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Exactly! Key words in the original post: Chicago and 1930’s. What house game wasn’t rigged.
Huh, that’s really interesting. The whole thing is laid out to really minimize any accidental imbalances, or deliberate attempt to steer the ball to a zone.
Almost every bet of the big groups contains just about the same number of slots from each zone, and even betting on corners you can only ever touch a maximum of two of the same color.
Clearly, knowing the ball has, for whatever reason, a increased chance of ending up in one zone will give you a great advantage, but the effect of this seems to be to minimize that advantage.
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