Advantage play is a gambling
method where you eliminate the casino’s edge and seek
to achieve an edge yourself.
Here a list of known methods:
1. Bonus hunting online
2. Black Jack, card counting
3. Sports betting arbitrage
4. Fruit machine knockers
5. Bias wheel, Roulette
6. Dealers Signature, Roulette
7. Visuel Tracking, Roulette
1. Online Bonus hunting
I am probably not the right person to describe this method as
I have only placed approx. 100 bets online so far for testing casinos.
2. Card Counting
Is only doable in real-life casinos, and preferably in casinos
where the cards are not continually mixed. Simultaneously,
the cut card has to be placed as far back in the shoe as
possible. Should I recommend a fairly easy method, I must
say KO count. On the Internet you find an almost completely
free version. Player’s edge is approx. 1-1,5%.
3. Sports betting arbitrage.
Is about finding the best odds between bookies and betting
on both winning/tie/lost - to say it brief - and scoring
the difference between 1-5% per game. It requires a fairly
large investment, but is almost risk free. There are several
specialists such as zero-risk-arbitrage, surebets etc. I
have a friend in London, Mike, who lives of sports arbitrage.
He bets at approx. 50 bookies, but plans to expand this year.
According to him the greatest issue is to keep your accounts
at the bookies. Apparently they can see that you are an arbitrage
player.
4. Fruit
machine knocking.
Is not an area that I want to explore. I mention it, because
there exists a larger underground community, which uses electronics
to help cheat machines into believing that they haven’t
made large payouts in a long time, making the probability
greater in jackpot. Highly illegal!
5. Bias roulette
wheel.
Hardly exists today. In brief, it is a defect wheel – e.g.
a wheel with a loose edge giving a weaker bounce so that the
number or a surrounding number have a higher probability than
the 1:37. Possible edge: 1-5%
6. Dealers Signature.
Some dealers have a signature i.e. a fairly monotonous length
of throw. For example: the ball is released as zero is passing
under the dealer’s hand landing on no. 5. That’s
approx. 18 numbers from point of throw. To be possible the
dealer must rotate the wheel in the same way every time and
throw in the same manner over and over. Utopia? No, but not
as easy as described.
7. Visuel tracking.
As opposed to the dealer’s signature, adding a number
of spins in physical categories, you try to pin point each
spin’s physical nature: The speed of the ball and rotor,
the fall zone, the rotor’s position when the ball falls
etc. One could say that with the dealer’s signature you
fish using net and with visual tracking you harpoon.
In the following, I will explore advantage play with roulette.
My own experience in London 1988
Working in the UK I visited The Sportsman and some Grovenor
clubs on a daily basis. The casinos in the UK are privately
owned clubs. I played “Guetting progression” back
then. A work colleague (JK) introduced me to dealer’s
signature – back then known as “sector shooting”.
That’s a croupier hitting a chosen sector. I laughed
out so loud or rather ROFLMAO. JK suggested that I went with
him to a place in Camden to see for myself. So I went, wanting
to see the idiot claiming he could do it. I walked into a tastefully
decorated apartment in one of the nicer areas of Camden – tasteful,
if you think an 85 cm wheel is style. “Kenny” who
owned the place was former croupier, but couldn’t find
work anymore in any of the clubs in London. We chatted, drank
beer and JK suggested that Kenny showed me his ability as shooter.
After 20 spins he had struck the zero sector + 4 neighbors
on each side 12 times and just outside + zero 3 times. Scary! – as
I played black/red I was safe, because despite his abilities
he couldn’t predict the color and the odds were still
50/50 – all he could influence was the sector. I asked
him how he did it? He replied that it’s quite simple.
All it takes is learning to spins the same each time.
1. You learn to turn the rotor at a certain speed spin after
spin after spin without using the ball.
2. You tilt the wheel a little so that it is not 100% horizontal – 1-2
mm is enough. The ball then begins to fall off in the same
place on the wheel hitting the same diamonds every time.
3. You learn to throw the ball so each throw has the same circulation
load. You start at the bottom with 4-5 circulations. Once you
master it, you gradually increase until you have achieved the
required casino’s circulation number.
4. You then combine rotor speed and ball circulation. Including
the tilt you achieve a rotor that has turned the exact same
amount of times at the time of the throw. With the tilt, the
ball will fall on the same side of the wheel hitting the same
diamonds. The ball will still jump around in the wheel, but
you achieve a sector with a higher probability.
With today’s wheels and the fast Huxley wheels where
you achieve more than 25 circulations, I doubt that a sector
shooter can hit exact. To achieve a dealer’s signature
is small as well, as it only requires a tiny difference in
rotor speed before the speed is multiplied so many times due
to the 25 circulations meaning that the rotor will have a completely
different position than intended.
17 years back the wheels had big and deep pockets and the croupier
could only do 12-15 circulations unless he shot the ball with
an AK 47 ?
We at Casinoportalen.com thank Kelly for his article and look
forward to version 3.
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