Here is the confession from a dealer that roulette croupiers can control which area they want the ball to land. Pit bosses are supposed to monitor that there is no foul play so that every spins is random or if there are any possibilities of collaboration with gamblers.
... if you want more surety, study how fast the croupier spins the ball and the speed of the wheel. The result is different for different wheels and different ball sizes. I don't know about other casinos around the world but I'd think Genting is the place where the wheel speed is not really monitored as you can see some croupiers with fast wheel and some with awfully slow wheel. The trick is to bet after the ball is spun, so you've got to be quick.
This is easier said than done. I believe this dealer had tried to do this many times but failed. While they have dealers who can spin a desired zone, we have gamblers who can tell where the ball will land. Let me use some lowyat forum id here. Pinkie finally decided to learn the wheel from faceless. On their first meeting, Pinkie was so impress because faceless could tell which zone the ball could land the moment the ball was launched. As I know the story, faceless got it right 10 out of 10 ten times. Yet faceless is not honored in GGC Hall of Fame.
There are a few reasons to it. If faceless could win money with that skill he is already godlike and thus more than qualify for the Hall of Fame. For Pinkie it was right after the ball was launched. Reading the forum on this subject, faceless said it would had taken him up to 3 seconds to study the speed of ball and wheel to come up with some form of bet selection. The call to seize betting could be made as fast as 5 seconds after the ball was launched. Two seconds is just not enough time to cover the table.
As for those who said that roulette cannot be manipulated, I worked there for 4 months and I found out I could really manipulate which area the ball will drop. For the 4 months there, no action was taken against me. My friend told me he saw some china croupier who could actually be extremely accurate that he could get the number he wanted; I think this is for the wheel with the square brackets. For the Scalloped wheel, the ball would really move a lot so it's really hard to get the area you want. As for the diamond studded objects or any other obstacles on the wheel, there's is a way to overcome it by spinning the ball at a specific point and the ball would just drop into the slot without hitting them. The problem lies in that the more obstacles a wheel has, the harder it gets.
A good dealer can collaborate with customers to make money. That I do not doubt. A gambler who desire to master the skill faceless had may not necessary win money. The split second computation we see in gambling movies is just for inspirational purpose. If such people do exist we should be learning from them. Right now taking it from the best man we had on the subject, we know that it is not possible.
I can't say that my actions were not noticed by my pit boss. I was just having fun and not collaborating with customers. Dealing roulette is extremely boring as it's only about payouts. Most of the time, the bets are small and standing for 8 hours working like a robot really sucks. My pit boss made inquiries on my dealings but no action was taken. Well ... I think most pit boss don’t really care.
Post#453 on Mar 4 2008, 04:58 PM at lowyat forum
All it takes is working at it for 4 months and you can have control of where the ball should land. If they are serious about it they would be an expert in one year. Faceless said it took him one month (8 hours daily) to acquired his skill. The two best options now are to train up on reading where the ball will land or find a good dealer to collaborate with.
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