In previous articles that I have written, I have talked about certain players who made very substantial amounts of money by discovering and then exploiting biased casino roulette wheels. What we did not talk about was just how a wheel becomes biased. What we are entering into here is a very complex subject as many of the reasons for bias are still a mystery even today to modern roulette wheel engineers.
But despite the advances in roulette wheel technology and construction, the problem with biased wheels is still very real and certainly still exploitable. The casino hierarchy certainly do not want this kind of information getting out and with very good reason. But we had at least one biased wheel to my knowledge at the first casino that I worked in and another at the second. Like a fool, I never exploited this situation until after I had left gaming which is something that still niggles me even now but I have wised up an awful lot since those early days.
I have read confidential reports on roulette wheels that indicate to me that for a roulette wheel to be totally random it needs to be flawless and perfect in every single way. This is an impossibility because a roulette wheel is just too complicated for it to reach anywhere near perfection.
There are a lot more components to a roulette wheel than meets the eye. Nearly all of the modern roulette wheels that are manufactured today are highly tuned pieces of equipment. Whether they be the latest models by John Huxley or the Paulsen or Paul Tramble wheels, the quality is exceptionally high in them all. But bias still appears and will continue to appear.
The major problem is that whenever the technicians service these wheels then they only tend to look for identifiable faults. This means faults that they can understand and faults that they are trained to detect. Many times down the years casino officials have detected biased wheels and have known full well that a wheel was biased but still could not find what the fault was. In my mind, we have the makings of a problem here that can only partly be solved by science.
There are forces at work that are taking effect on roulette wheels that as yet we do not fully understand. Because we do not understand them then we cannot detect them but that does not mean that they are not present. I was doing some research a few years ago on “temporary bias” on roulette wheels. My studies were merely supposition but I believe that it could be certainly possible that a roulette wheel could be influenced over time by outside forces or even temperature differences.
Physical abnormalities are easily spotted by the casino or at least they should be. I have worked in casinos where the frets (number dividers) and the canoes (diamond shaped ball deflectors in the balltrack) have been loose and I have even pulled them out on occasion. Should this have happened, absolutely not but it does highlight just how certain casinos fail miserably when it comes to wheel maintenance. Look out for part two on biased wheels coming soon.
Carl “The Dean” Sampson
Author – “Killer Roulette”
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