But once again they were let down by insufficient hardware and software at that time. I believe that it was tried again and exposed again during the 1980’s. However the latest news that a group of individuals took a casino for a large amount of money using computers with lasers comes as no surprise to me. I wrote in an article years ago how there simply had to be people even as we speak devising ways to beat roulette because roulette spins and roulette balls and wheels do have strong predictive qualities.

So roulette can be beaten……it cannot be beaten easily and in fact the process of beating roulette for people like us would be impossible because we simply do not have the proper knowledge and expertise……but there are many people out there that do have this expertise and all they have to do is point that expertise in the direction of roulette and the beating of it and some casino somewhere is going to be in a lot of trouble.

So when you consider the massive advancements of computer software and hardware over the past ten years especially then I can only believe in my own mind that there are people out there who are using highly sophisticated computer programs to gain an edge on roulette by predicting where the ball will land. But do not misunderstand what I am trying to say here, when I am referring to “prediction” I am certainly not saying that if a ball lands in numbers 17, 21, 32 and 8 in succession that a computer could predict that.

There is too much randomness in the results of roulette wheels for that to ever be possible. But just like with stock market specialists, some sort of order can be made from chaos. Prediction means long term profitability and not 100% accuracy. If you make money over time in the stock market then this does not mean that you have or even can predict ever possible movement or every top and every bottom, that simply isn’t possible. But in roulette prediction then being able to predict that just two numbers out of 37 wouldn’t arrive on a certain spin would be enough to guarantee an edge. If a computer predicted that the result of a spin would be one of 35 numbers in a 37 number wheel then you are approaching it wrongly if you fail to make money in that situation.

I was right handed so this made more sense, I had far greater feel at being able to not just control the ball but to spin the ball as well. I have never been very good with my left hand and my chip cutting with my left hand remained patchy even until the day I left the industry.

Roulette Wheels are not all the same, they may look the same but they are sort of like Snooker Tables, they look alike but each one has their own unique characteristics and the balls behave differently on one snooker table over another…..roulette wheels are like that. I then discovered that I could control the ball far better on some right handed wheels over others.

In fact, one or two of the pit bosses used to prevent me from dealing on the biggest table simply because I kept losing money on the smaller tables. In all their combined wisdom, not a single one of them ever realised that I was an absolute whiz on right handed tables and the biggest and largest denomination table in the club was a right handed table.

I never told the pit bosses simply because I never gave a damn, they would have just left me on the tables far longer than normal and I would have ended up working far harder for the same money. We didn’t get tips and we sure didn’t get any bonuses so it had little point to me. I had got past the stage of trying my hardest in order to get promotion as rightful promotions had come and gone several times. I then failed to buy into the spiel and the pep talk that the managers used to dish out.

I could have won them literally hundreds of thousands of pounds during my spell there had two criteria been met……A….they treated staff well enough and B…….I cared……..but seeing as B is linked to A then solving that was pretty easy and would have happened had they tried, but if they couldnt try then why should I?

Anyway….see you soon

Carl “The Dean” Sampson

In some cases of course it is simply because the computer or system or whatever doesnt work and never has done. I have come across roulette computers and I even know people who have the expertise to design them. The very best wheels are probably very stubborn to predictive computerised systems of which the new John Huxley “Saturns” probably fit this bill. But many casinos have far older and less random wheels that are perfect for computers to exploit.

How do you build one? Search me…..I know some of the theory but that is about all I do know. There have actually been some very clever people who have designed and then operated roulette computers in the past that didnt work. This then tells you how difficult this process is if highly qualified mathematicians cannot crack this problem.

But there are people who have cracked this problem and are more than likely using roulette computers right now even as we speak somewhere in the world. If this sounds too fantastic for words then look at the flip side, what are the chances that worldwide, not one single person is or is attempting to use a computerised prediction system?

I find that even more staggering than someone actually using one. The principle is the same as with poker bots, I believe that the best ones dont get marketed……why should they. If I designed a successful computer or bot, I would clean up first……AND THEN SELL THE KNOWLEDGE.

This is the process that is followed countless times over. There was a very fascinating book written a few years back called the “Eudaemonic Pie” which told the story of a group of people who attempted to design a computerised predication system, they actually operated it with success at some stages but the lack of proper materials hindered them to such a state that they had to quit. The bottom line is that these things exist even if they dont reach the press.

see you soon

Carl