Has anyone tried to beat roulette by watching the speed of the ball and tying to predict the general area that

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it will land?

Answer 1

Everyone can do that. We just don't because we have compassion for the casino owners.

Answer 2

Yeah, it's called wheel tracking. The term (and the term clocking) used to apply to people who searched around for "biased" wheels (wheels supposedly out of level, allowing for a more predictable pattern of results). Nowadays they are looking for "biased" dealers. You try to predict which "sector" on the wheel the ball will land in. Mostly it has to do with finding a croupier (dealer) with a consistent throw and charting the results to look for a pattern.

Now as for the assertion that roulette can't be beaten, surely it can, at least in theory. For if a person, instead of predicting where the ball would land, if you could ELIMINATE some numbers where the ball WON'T land, then all of a sudden you have a beatable game.

All that would have to be done (in theory) is to eliminate 3 spaces on a 00 wheel, and the game is even money. If you can eliminate 4 spaces, you have the mathematical edge.

A prominent gambling author (Scoblete I think) wrote an article in Casino player about using tracking to clean up at the Big6 wheel (the large vertical wheel game). While this game has a huge math edge for the house, he explains that he detected a pattern in the dealer's spin that helped him predict on what spins the large payout spaces would be more likely to hit. He didn't have to hit all the time, he just had to shift the odds of the game to his favor with his newly acquired knowledge.

With dice manipulation at craps all the rage now that blackjack counting has been exposed and casinos do all they can to stop it, it seems reasonable to think roulette tracking will eventually have it's day to come out of "urban legend" status.

Have you noticed the roulette pits that resemble video games? Called Rapid Roulette. I don't know if it has a mechanical ball launcher or not, but if it doesn't yet, as soon as it does, it will do a lot to foil a wheel tracker, because it could launch a ball with a great degree of variance, which would be very hard to detect by an observer. So casinos are already looking to defend themselves from the day that people think they can beat another supposedly "unbeatable" game.

Answer 3

There is NO system or strategy that will ever allow to beat roulette over the long haul. It's mathematically impossible. You might get a nice little streak of luck - if you do - that's great! Now run away from the table & never play again - you've beaten the game & the odds & should be happy. But - over the long haul even the richest person in the world will eventually go broke. There is no technique that is tried, tested & true that will allow you to predict with any degree of accuracy where the ball is going to land....besides - by the time the ball is within a few moments of dropping into a slot - you're long past the time that you can place any bets anyway.

Answer 4

I'm sure many people have considered this. No one is capable of doing this with any degree of accuracy however. They did invent a laser device that can measure the speed of the ball and give a reasonable prediction, but this is of course illegal.

The only way to beat roulette is to find a wheel with a slight bias to one section and bet on numbers from that section. Unfortunately most wheels don't have a big enough bias to be any use, and it takes about a 10,000 number history to figure out a bias.

Answer 5

you will never beat roulette. and to the guy who suggested betting $100 on the two to one boxes...that its 60 % in your favor. lmao, you couldnt be any more wrong dude. you will always , always , always have a less than 50 percent chance of winning anything. if your percentage is 60% the casinos would not use that game in the casinos. best odds in the house is 53% to the house and 47% to the player and that is blackjack. do the math superstar.

Answer 6

if u play 100 dollars on 2 of the 3 2 to1 boxes below all the numbers u have 60 percent chance of wininng 100 each spin