Advantage Play on the Roulette
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. Bonus hunting online
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. Blackjack, 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 knockers.
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.