How Roulette systems actually work

Many people believe that roulette cannot be beaten, but yet they are only looking at this problem from one angle. This is the area of roulette systems and how they cannot possibly work because of the fact that the house maximums often get in the way. Despite this, people still have uneducated opinions about roulette systems. This is because millions of people worldwide only ever use or have only ever read about
roulette systems that are progressive and often double up.

The fact of the matter is that the casino management and owners do not want the secrets of how to beat roulette distributed amongst the general public. Although I cannot see why, years ago casinos made an awful lot of money from blackjack players simply because of the knowledge that blackjack could be beaten by people who possessed specific knowledge.

The fact was that very few people had the proper level of knowledge to be able to do this adequately and either recycled money or lost money despite being card counters and having specialised knowledge. This would probably be replicated with roulette with countless players who would more than likely attempt to beat the game without having adequate knowledge.

During my time in casinos I was aware of numerous players who could read the spin and several of them actually won substantial amounts of money over long periods of time. This totally eliminated the chance that variance could be at work. Quite often the casino where I worked did not properly maintain their roulette wheels. Bias would present itself on almost every single roulette wheel that I ever worked on.

In fact the level of maintenance was so bad on some wheels that the metal number dividers and canoes were actually loose in some instances. What this meant was that when the ball fell from the ball track, when it hit one of these canoes then it’s energy was absorbed by the looseness of the deflector. Quite often the wood gets cracked and even warped, this could mean all sorts of things and often the ball will fall from the ball track at the same point on each spin.

In the 1980s there was a very famous case in Atlantic City where a high rolling roulette player asked a casino to raise their maximums in return for him depositing several million dollars within their cash desk. This then led to one of the most famous cases of bias wheel play in the history of roulette.

What the casino did not know was that this player had used teams of people to clock roulette wheels all across Atlantic City. Over the course of several days this player beat the casino out of several million dollars. This just highlights how vulnerable roulette can be. It is unlikely that the overwhelming majority of players would go to these kind of lengths and that is rather fortunate for the gaming industry.

However the casino industry is all too aware of how vulnerable roulette really is and they keep a very close eye on this game more so than any other. Back in the mid-1990s there was a special feature on blackjack called over/under, in this feature players could wager separate amounts of money on whether or not the first two cards that they were dealt were over or under thirteen.

On the surface this was a terrible bet for the blackjack player and a great feature for the house. But there was a counting system that literally took the game apart. We had teams of Americans coming across the Atlantic Ocean to the United Kingdom especially to play blackjack in England because the game was so good.

Needless to say that this particular feature was soon removed from the game. But what this highlights is in how the gaming industry is all too aware of certain vulnerabilities with regards to their table games and keep a very close eye on any eventuality that may arise, this is doubly so on roulette simply because of the far higher payoffs.