Ever since casinos came about, people have been looking for a system to beat them. Not necessarily illegal systems, but ways to manipulate the odds from the housed favor, to the players favor. The most famous case was that of the MIT blackjack team. They studied and studied and studied some more. And they won. A lot. And eventually were caught and banned from many casinos, but not arrested, because they did nothing wrong, except they beat the casino at their own game.
Well, that's nothing compared to the brass cajones these 3 Eastern Europeans did in 2 nights in England in March of 2004.
The game of choice, Roulette. What they did? Well, they rigged a cell phone to determine the best bets on the wheel.
Here's how it worked. They had a laser scanner inside a mobile phone linked to a computer. The scanner measured the speed of the roulette ball as the croupier released it, identified where it fell and measured the declining orbit of the wheel. The data was beamed to the computer, which forecast which section numbers the ball would land on. This data was flashed on to the screen of the phone just before the wheel made its third spin, by which time all bets must be placed.
With this method, they reduced their odds of winning from 37-1 to 6-1, the trio placed bets on all six numbers in the section where the ball would end up.
On their first night they took home £100,000 ($200,000 US). The following evening they returned and won £1.2 million ($2.4 million US). They were handed £300,000 in cash and a check for £900,000.
But then the casinos reviewed the tapes of those evenings and called Scotland Yard. the 3 were arrested and their winnings seized. They were released on bail and made to wait in the country for 9 months during the investigation.
The investigation ended and Scotland Yard informed them that no further action will be taken and that the investigation ended.
Furthermore, there winning were returned. The reason: the gamblers had not broken any law because their scanner did not interfere with the ball or the roulette wheel. It simply measured it, like a cop holding a radar gun, it only measure the wheel and ball, it didn't affect the play.
I've got to load that program in my PDA!
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The gang's success may have been based on a theory known as "sector targeting"..where in it calculates where the ball is likely to come to rest in..Such mathematical system were been use through the years in order to win on roulette its just that using those kind of technology do improves the chances of winning or helps in improving the odds for the gambler.
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