Biased Roulette: Minimise your Losses

It is pretty interesting to analyse how, with the passing of time, both players and casino owners have tried to cheat to win at all costs. Players’ creativity has developed a variety counting techniques to win systematically, and casinos have been trying to neutralise them. From taking note of down certain numbers to the use of palmtops, players have gone a long run, and everything seems to be useful for that purpose. So true is this, that many casinos all over the world forbide note taking on their premises, and then players came up with group counting, which was eventually wrecked thanks to the invention of facial recognition devices, such as cameras and black lists published on Internet to prevent scammers from entering any casino in the world.

Nevertheless, let’s analyse the other side of the coin: biased roulettes and biased croupiers, both playing against the decent player. There are a couple of simple fast methods to make some winnings, but they all demand a stable perfectly centred roulette. Even in the most decent casinos a roulette may get biased because of a flawed base, and then cast some numbers more often than others. Certain methods such as the one called the Statistical Inference base themselves on that situation, and they consist on taking samples of the numbers that have hit, and try to guess which ones come out more often. Experts players advice newbies to compare a roulette statistics to the ones for a different roulette to detect the less and the most biased roulette, and on what side certain numbers hit more often. There are a couple of good computer programs to analyse the date gathered, such as the one called Statgraphics.

It is also necessary to make down who the croupier is when those data are analysed, as every person has a special way of spinning the wheel or throwing the ball, and that fact usually influences the frequency of certain numbers. That situation is called a ‘biased croupier’ – a croupier who, in general terms and without even realising it, may through the ball in such a way that a certain sector on the roulette may result favoured. If a player realises that is the case, they have just to make down the biased number and bet on them. Players must also pay attention to croupier changes. In some countries, like Spain, roulettes have been modified in such a way that they have metal slots, which makes the ball jump much more before resting in its final position. By this measure, casinos try to neutralise the effects of statistics and methods applied on both biased roulettes and croupiers.

However, nowadays, when it is so common to play roulette from home, in a virtual casino, some players suppose these speculations have come to an end. Nothing might be farther from truth – online casinos have their flaws as well, and what is biased is the algorithm itself, and not the croupier or the roulette. This situation calls for attention, to keep on winning!