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Secret To Beating Roulette Wheel Revealed

Posted May 15, 2012 1:24 PM

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Roulette is not as random as it appears.

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05/15/2012 1:37 PM

Yeah, as long as nobody's watching...lol...oh and the person running the wheel is cooperative...sort of like when they let Captain Louie win in Casablanca...

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05/15/2012 1:40 PM

I can imagine someone reading this and running to the nearest casino with smartphone in hand, and just hovering completely over the wheel, taking video. Not conspicuous in the least

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05/15/2012 1:55 PM

As I recall the table wasn't rigged for Captain Louis. It was for the young married couple trying to get enough money to buy tickets away from Casablanca. ("Twenty two!") [And/or pay the necessary bribes.]

Yes, he did gamble, hence the lines, "I'm shocked. Shocked! That gambling is going on in this establishment." "Here are your winnings, sir." "Oh, thank you."

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05/15/2012 2:07 PM

They let Captain Louie win as graft payment for operating the illegal gambling...

Claude Rains(Captain Louis Renault): Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this café, but we know that you've never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine):Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at roulette.
Claude Rains(Louis): That is another reason.

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05/16/2012 5:35 PM

I am assuming this is sort of like how an expert mathematician can find a formula that predicts exactly how a game of black jack with any number of decks was played out after it was played but never before.

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05/17/2012 3:42 PM

Here is another point, very much germane, since probability simulations are run using various forms of gambling, all the time, and cryptography uses randomness, probabilities, and statistics to test its theories regularly.

As a cryptographer, I was always made aware that as long as the enemy could not get his/her hands on both a smattering of plain-text (unencrypted) and encrypted data from the same crypto source, it was very nearly impossible to crack a machine-encryption scheme. As it stands now, this still holds true. But IF you have a smidgen of each, known to have used the same scheme, it becomes exponentially simpler to do. All it takes is reverse-engineering, but that, in turn, requires the code that was built by the system in the first place, for comparison.

Much like figuring out mathematically (and encryption is HEAVY with advance math) how a roulette wheel was beaten by seeing it done. Once the message is decoded (whether text or the mathematical statement of method to beat the wheel) it becomes immensely easier for us much less bright lights to do it again.

The ability to compare the "before and after" gives one a starting point. And the whole scheme unravels from there.

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07/25/2012 5:44 AM

Oye! That's a shocker! Now I know what to do next time I play. Thanks for the tip!

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