Casino Dealer Snipers: The Myth of the Roulette Shot

They make one girl a shift manager, and a guy comes in who has us on "color" for an hour or more. Seeing that the wheel is giving way to one gate, she gathers us together and gives a brilliant phrase: "Guys, you see that he only puts red - throw black!".

Let's forget about "pedal Vasya" and adaptive casino technologies for a while. Let's consider the topic of sniper dealers without bias.

Huxley, Abyatti, and other modern wheels do not even allow you to hit the "sector" a certain number of times. Of course, do not forget the use of standard balls.
IMHO. The dealer cannot regulate the hit even in the "sector".

"The right place", "aimed spin", "accurate throw" - some strange and vague terms.
Let's move on to more professional ones: repeat, opposite, quarter, third, 1/2/3 dozen (high/low), 1/2/3 column, even/odd, red/black.

Okay, but where, to whom and under what conditions is this generally beneficial?
It is clear that only in rare and limited situations. Mass distribution will ultimately be economically harmful. To use miracle snipers along with magnets would make sense in the last six months of work at the Azov City casino... Or in very special individual cases and halls...

Some studies have been conducted, and there are open publications. But most of the recipes of master performers are classified. Even just reliable examples of demonstrating this skill are very few. But we should not oversimplify the question, to the extent of "yes or no". Moreover, the topic is clearly from the field of probability theory, this is inevitable - like any shooting or throwing objects at a target, including combat and sports options.

Roulette researcher Bazie wrote a lot on this topic after many experiments, tests and mathematical calculations. He admits that he witnessed convincing demonstrations of this phenomenon by individual croupiers. But experiments with spring and pneumatic "guns" for the ball gave a very large dispersion on his roulette even with a stationary rotor.

For example, outside bets predominate at the table.
And the cunning dealer intends to throw the ball into zero. And he seems to succeed - on average, in half of the spins the ball lands in a sector of five cells with the center in the green zero. According to the Gaussian distribution (binomial for roulette) - almost 100% of the numbers that fall out will be in a sector of 20 cells. Moreover, it will land in zero in more than 10% of spins. And if it is just by chance, as usual - in 2.7%. The difference is 4-5 times. Accordingly, the players' winnings in this situation will be less. Unless you complicate the conditions with a tactical struggle, like betting on the zerospiel after the throw.

In artillery, dozens of parameters are taken into account to achieve uniformity of shot. It is useful to take into account the rationale for the rules for making corrections, sighting in, and transferring fire.
For individual training, the principles of training shooters and other athletes can be used. Including suggestion and ideomotor training.
Petanque, the French game of throwing balls, is also worth a look. Plus golf, croquet...

Try to put the ball to the place where the ball is launched without spinning the wheel, letting it just roll to the cells with numbers. The ball will roll all the time in different directions and different numbers. Even so, it is difficult to hit the number. If this does not happen, then such a wheel should be avoided.

When the dealer's actions do not coincide with the actions of "pedal Vasya".

Dealer Life Story #1.

I had a conversation with one cool roulette player. "The dealer and I agreed to play for one hand. Well, you know, I like to bet a tier, he promised that he would easily throw away the required number of times. And so, this woodpecker comes to the table, beckons to me, like, go ahead and bet. The first spin is a miss, the second is a miss again, and the third, and the fifth - all misses!!! In half an hour, the tier fell several times, but the chips floated away to the casino cashier. He spat and left. So, many of you p*** that you can do something, but when it comes to action - your hands are hooked."

Dealer Life Story #2.

Two Italians came to us for a wheel. And the roulette is 2-sided, they play on a more expensive wing. And they bet only on 8 and neighbors, but on the field. But they pour well. And a little insurance. I go out, see these "suckers" who ask to wait, inwardly already celebrating an easy victory. Rubbing my hands, spinning. And on the other side, our local regular fan of the wheel, bets the opposite sector. The ball, as if trained, falls in the area of 9 and jumps towards zero - just what the doctor ordered! But this bastard skips both zero and all the big ones, runs all the way to thirty!!! I'm in ah...e, "our" player too, the Italians are happy as elephants. I pay, wait, they bet, spin. Something falls in the pinnacle, I'm happy. The Italians bet, spin. The ball probably never bounced like that! Having fallen, it seemed, dead in the spire, it ended up in the 5-th... On the next spin I made an adjustment for the "fucking day" and launched it into the tier as a repeat. It started to fall in the tier and bounced. "Excellent!", I thought, but no way - the bastard bounced half a drum and bounced back there in the small series... And so on every spin..! In the end, the Italians raised 5 thousand and left. "Ours" lost about 500, but told me the following: "I know your abilities and I saw that you threw a different sector, but the way the ball bounced - it's just f*cked up."

I can't help but remember visitors with notebooks and notes!

There are such people in any casino - they come to the wheel, open their old, tattered notebooks, in which such layouts are drawn, arrows are placed, graphs of the appearance and sequence of numbers are given, that sometimes you think...
People write down all the numbers on roulette wheels, and at home, using the formula of Professor Bufetov, from the base department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute, they count and think... There is only one thing people do not take into account... Their formula does not work in the Lobachevsky plane.

Dealer Recognition:

I won't even mention the color - only gods can do that, and I've never met any. And hitting the number at will is something from the category of Ancient Greek myths.
At first, all our equipment was Huxley - there was probably no other at that time. Then we changed it, bought something new, I won't lie - I don't remember what brand it was (or maybe I didn't even know - it was a long time ago), but it wasn't Huxley and it wasn't "plastic". What flew in those and in the others - it didn't matter at all. Pegs, sides, daily rotation of the wheel - it's all nonsense. It's a matter of habit.
So, about percentages. We had about 100 people on staff at one time. Of these, about 20 were roulette players. Of these 20, a maximum of 5-7 people could throw the ball "well", and only 3 could fight the columns. Of course, no one shared this with each other, and even less with the managers, but everyone understood everything. Once, I gave one player 5 spins in a row on adjacent 3 numbers to order, without playing (though I was surprised myself that it was so close ), and he told the manager about it. The manager flew into the staff, yelled, asked if I had gone crazy, and threatened that this would never happen again.
More than once I have observed with my own eyes unfortunate victims of faith in the pedal, magnets and targeted launches among the clientele: when a passenger demonstratively places odds and backs them up with bets on a field of only one color (or parity, etc.) and pretends to have "relaxed" or been distracted - but just before the ball falls, he suddenly jumps up and distorts all his little bets into odds and numbers of the opposite value.

This is of course not scotch tape, but some kind of material that is visually indistinguishable from the material of the cell bottom. But when you start tapping all the numbers on the roulette with the ball, the ball does not jump out of 4-5 "charged" cells at all, once it gets there, it almost sticks )))

I haven't heard about the story, but I've seen something similar. The ball really doesn't jump out.

It was not that long ago... 3-4 years ago.

I saw this 18-19 years ago)))

Permanent magnet.)))

It's not news that dealers are stupid.
An example of life observations of one of them:

Unfortunately, I also have a "Love" for pneumatic roulettes and when I was racking my brains for a long time about magnets and other crap, the following happened: Once again I went into the gaming room and saw 5 reds in a row on the board and decided that this is where the money is, but then, after I ran out of money, black finally came up. I decided that the evil magnets had offended me!

A few days later in another hall, playing for about an hour, I decided to finally put 2 columns, 2 dozens and some other chances, well of course ZERO, what else could there be? Again the magnets offended, I decided.

A few days later I'm standing behind the wheel as an inspector and what do you think???, there are several red numbers in a row on the board and a lucky UNCLE passes by, he saw it, put $50 on black, ALAS, put $100, ALAS, after 200, 400, 800, 1000, a second one came up, both put a grand and again red, only they walked away and here you have black!!!

Despite the obviousness of the situation, the person draws conclusions:

Most likely, nothing is programmed in pneumatic roulettes.
Summing up, I conclude that over several years I have spent so much money on this leisure time and all this instead of a good car or... I don't even know, but a lot!!!

This is despite the fact that very often the number coming up on the pneumatic (as well as in a live/online casino) clearly violates all conceivable laws of physics. But this circumstance is ignored and the old song continues: "The casino plays fair, -2.7% is enough for them."

It doesn't even bother me in the pneumatic roulette settings options when selling:

It's written in black and white:
"In administrator mode you can:
- change the slot machine payout percentage from 76 to 98 percent
- change the price of the loan from 1 ruble to 10 rubles
- view and reset resettable counters
- view fiscal counters. "