Following on from part one of this article, Darnborough was at it again in Monte Carlo in 1911 where he once again won a “very considerable sum of money”. The event that seemed to end Darnborough’s run was not anything done by the casino or the fact that he lost it back.

He met and married an English girl named Frances who loathed gambling and she made William promise never to go back to that life ever again despite his success. Darnborough died in 1958 aged 90 never once telling anyone about just how he had managed to win this money that had made him so rich.

I have read several reports down the years from individuals who have claimed that Darnborough could not possibly have been reading the spin because this is far too difficult a task. They are half right in the fact that it is a very difficult task, if it was easy then everyone would be doing it and the entire world would be populated by computerised mechanical roulette wheels.

But these people are wrong because it can be done even on the modern roulette wheels. The technique of just how to do it finally hit me after a very considerable length of time actually practising it on a real roulette wheel. People who have no experience of working in the casino industry would not know what I was talking about, in fact the overwhelming majority of people who do work in the casino industry would not know what I was talking about.

Let me put something to you, let’s say that you wanted to play professional poker and you asked 100 regular poker players how well they were doing. If all of them told you the truth and that truth was that not a single one of them were making the game pay, would you then conclude that it was not possible to play poker for a living. Many people would in fact make this conclusion but they would be 100% wrong.

Let me put something else to you which may make any sceptic see what I am trying to say. The house edge on single zero roulette is 2.7% as I have already said. If you were to place one chip on all 37 numbers (1-36 plus zero) then you would lose exactly one chip because your winning number would pay 35-1 plus your bet back so you would return 36 chips. What this means is that if we take the figure of 100% and divide that by the amount of numbers in the wheel then we get a figure of 2.7% per number.

It is now very easy to see how this method could work because if you could reach a stage where you could eliminate just two numbers in the wheel from winning then that 2.7% house edge would now be a 2.7% edge for the player and that is huge in gambling terms. Any professional card counter would give their high teeth for that kind of edge.

This is why the exponents of the “it cannot be done” brigade have seriously got it wrong. You do not need to be able to spin certain numbers or certain blocks for that matter, in fact you do not have to be able to hit anything. All you need to know is that just two numbers will not be hit during the course of this spin. Do you still think that it is impossible now?

Darnborough had worked this out or his accomplice had which has been reported in some sources. Of course it is perfectly feasible that this was not Darnboroughs’s idea but someone else’s who simply did not have the money to hit the tables as hard as him although this explanation seems unlikely to me.

The people on the inside know what Darnborough was doing even a century later. To be able to do this at all you must first believe that it can be done. The people who still refuse to believe that a punter can read a spin after reading about William Nelson Darnborough are ignoring the obvious.

Carl “The Dean” Sampson Author of Killer Roulette
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