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For as long as gamblers have wagered money on games of chance and skill, the temptation to cheat has loomed.
Unwilling to let fate decide, casino cheaters use creative and unscrupulous tricks to gain an unfair edge over the house.
Among the earliest methods employed by poker cheats, the gunslinging poker games of the Old West era saw cheats wield aces up their sleeves. These days, cheaters who plague poker can be found in both brick and mortar card rooms and online sites, colluding or dumping chips to team up on unsuspecting opponents.
Cheating in modern casinos predominantly afflicts the skill-based games like poker and blackjack, but you’d be surprised by how prevalent the crime has become in roulette and other games of chance. You wouldn’t think a simple wheel-spinning affair like roulette would be subject to cheating because players don’t really have any influence on the gameplay.
Nonetheless, cheats can be found anywhere real money is being wagered, and the roulette table is no exception. Even with the ever-present “eye in the sky” watching their every move, and eagle-eyed croupiers (dealers), pit bosses, and other staff members trained to detect malfeasance, roulette cheaters just can’t help themselves.
The allure of making easy money without incurring risk certainly makes sense, but trying to cheat the casino while playing roulette is a fool’s errand. Don’t take my word for it though, just ask the long lineup of convicted roulette criminals who tried the five ways to cheat at roulette listed below.
1 – Past Posting or Late Betting to Increase Wagers on Known Winners
Every roulette player knows the feeling well…
When you nail the number perfectly and watch the croupier stack the 35 to 1 payout, wishing you would’ve bet $10 instead of $1, the experience can be bittersweet to say the least. Beating long odds for a big payout is always cause for celebration, but when you only bet a few bucks, it can be easy to kick yourself for not putting more out there.
Some roulette cheaters aren’t content with their minimal payouts, so they resort to a tactic popularly referred to as “past posting.” Also known as “late betting,” the concept of past posting is quite basic on the surface. You add chips to your bet once you know it’s a winner.
When the croupier watches the wheel to find out where the ball landed, it will take them a split second to scan the spaces, find the ball, and turn their eyes back to the table before calling the number. In that split second, past posting artists use sleight of hand tricks to secretly add significant sums to their winning bet.
Let’s say you sprinkled various bets between $5 and $40 on several single-number spaces, using combinations of both the red $5 and green $25 chips. You have the number 17 covered with one $5 chip, but when you see the ball nestle into the 17 space, you instantly dart your hand out and cap the $5 bet with a $25 chip. The croupier never notices your trickery, and just like that, you’ve turned a $175 payout (35 to 1) on $5 into a whopping $1,050.
Why You Shouldn’t Try Past Posting
While potentially lucrative when undetected, past posting is inherently dangerous based on the moving parts in play.
A professional croupier is trained to scan and memorize the bets in play when they wave for final wagers, so they might notice your small chips suddenly transforming into big ones. While you’re watching the croupier, a nearby pit boss outside of your peripheral vision might see you make the switch. And up above, high-resolution cameras are recording every move you make.
Add it all up, and past posting just isn’t worth the risk involved, a fact Charbel Tannous and Constandi Lubbat can attest to. In 2011, while playing roulette at L’Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in Louisiana, the pair were caught red-handed past posting for big money.
After authorities used surveillance footage to confirm that over $175,000 was stolen via the roulette scheme, Tannous and Lubbat were charged with felony cheating and swindling over $1,500 and criminal conspiracy.
Tannous was eventually convicted and sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for organizing the roulette racket. This is a harsh punishment US Attorney Stephanie Finley made clear will be the norm for casino cheats:
“We are very pleased with the court’s decision to give this defendant a significant prison term. The casino and the citizens were victims in this case. A portion of the profits from the casino goes to the State of Louisiana and the Calcasieu Parish School Board.
We will continue to partner with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to prosecute crimes of this nature and seek the maximum amount of prison time available.”
2 – Partnering With a Croupier to Produce Fake Winners
If you read the previously linked reporting, you know Tannous and Lubbat didn’t work alone.
By conspiring with two croupiers working at the casino, these cheats made sure their past posting antics would never be reported.
That approach certainly makes sense on an objective level, too. By doubling down on the scam, colluding to ensure their cheating is allowed by the people running the table, conspirators don’t leave anything to chance. Having an “inside man” on the team only makes cheating at roulette that much easier, as a corrupt croupier can allow their partner to inflate winning bets or pull back chips on losers.
Why You Shouldn’t Partner With a Dealer
In 2016, a casino pit boss at the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa, decided to go rogue. He enlisted a croupier to do the dirty deed, and a third partner to act the part of lucky player. Past posting provided the bulk of the team’s $20,000 in ill-gotten gains, but like almost all roulette cheats before them, these three were eventually caught on camera and arrested.
David Dales, a special agent with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (IDCI), issued a statement explaining how the scam was set up:
“There was a dealer that was doing some active cheating mechanism on the roulette table at Horseshoe Casino. And there was a patron he was consistently cheating for. The allegations are they were past posting – adding chips to the winning numbers – doing other activities that gave them illegal winnings at a table game.”
The offenders were charged with four felonies, including ongoing criminal conduct, first-degree theft, conspiracy, and cheating at gambling. They faced significant jail time and hefty fines.
3 – “Coloring up” Small Chips for Higher Denominations off the Table Before Cashing Out
An especially clever way roulette players can cheat the game involves the old bait and switch.
To make the “color up” scheme work, two players working in tandem start by sitting at different tables. In roulette, cash is turned into specially designed chips that are only good at the table. To avoid confusion between different players betting, everyone gets a different color chip in the denomination of their choosing.
A color up team moves from table to table, one buying in for the minimum $1 chips, and the other going bigger with a $25 or $100 denomination. When they both receive the same color chips, they’re always at a different table and only six or seven colors are in play so this will inevitably occur, the trap is sprung.
The low stakes player pockets a handful of chips on the sly, then heads off to take a quick bathroom break. With no surveillance cameras to worry about, they wait for their partner to hit the head as well, then they deliver a handful of chips when nobody’s around.
Flush with new chips in the same color as those at the big stakes table, the second player proceeds to play a spin or two with minimal action before requesting a color up and cash out.
When cheaters turn 10 of the $1 chips into an equivalent amount of $25 chips, they’ve instantly “earned” $240 in profit without incurring an ounce of risk. And if a $1 to $100 exchange rate is in play, the color up scam produces a massive $990 profit margin.
Why You Shouldn’t Color up Chips
Between 2012 and 2013, a highly organized team of color up cheaters based in New York toured the country targeting small commercial and tribal casinos. Their run came to an end in Ohio, after the team struck at four casinos and stole thousands of dollars, only for 13 members to find themselves behind bars when it was all said and done.
Karen Huey, director of enforcement for the Ohio Casino Control Commission (OCCC), told local media outlets that the Buckeye State was not alone:
“This is a very organized group of about 70 people. They travel the country. They’ve been identified in 18 states running this scam.”
The roulette cheating team wound up facing 29 felony counts and the possibility of lengthy prison sentences. According to Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office Special Units Division Chief John Weglian, casino criminals will never receive leniency.
“One of the principle purposes of these casinos is to provide revenue to the State of Ohio so the laws that the legislature has passed cover casino violations will be enforced strictly by the Attorney General’s office and this office. We will enforce the laws of the state.”
4 – Using Hidden Lasers to Measure Ball Speed Before Betting Concludes
These last two are so absurd that they hardly merit mention, but based on their scientific innovations alone, they made the cut.
Back in the 1970s, a physicist at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico named Norman Packard postulated that laser beams could be used to measure crucial roulette variables. By using a laser and a computer to chart the ball and wheel speed, Packard succeeded in predicting which quadrant of the wheel the ball would land in.
Here’s how he described the gambit in an interview with New Scientist:
“In the best circumstances, we could predict the quadrant correctly. Even saying which half of the wheel is extremely powerful because the payoff is so good. We definitely got to the point where we were winning money, but we didn’t continue long enough to make large amounts.”
Why You Shouldn’t Use Technology to Cheat
Obviously, pulling out a laser pointer and hiding a computer on your person is impractical in the modern casino setting. Maybe the laser cheat works in a laboratory, or even an old-school gambling hall before cameras became prevalent, but this is a method of cheating at roulette that would never fly nowadays.
5 – Directing the Ball to Certain Spaces by Generating a Magnetic Field
Using a laser pointer and a computer isn’t the most discreet way to cheat at roulette. So, how about a magnetic roulette ball to improve your odds?
In the early 2000s, a team of Austrian roulette cheats found a way to activate magnetic fields that drew the ball to certain numbers based on where the player stood. While the team didn’t win on every single spin, the use of a remote-controlled ball helped them improve their chances of winning.
Why You Shouldn’t Use Magnets
Unfortunately for this team of conmen, the croupier eventually found the ball stuck to his cufflink. The jig was up, forcing the cheaters to abandon their winnings and run away in shame. Today, some casinos use magnetic field sensors to prevent this from happening.
Conclusion
Folks who feel the need to cheat at roulette represent the bottom of the barrel when it comes to casino gambling. Desperate and down on their luck, yet unwilling to simply learn a skill game and play it well, roulette cheats refuse to accept reality. And as the five entries above should show you, the run of free money always ends at some point, leaving prison, probation, and a ruined reputation as the roulette cheater’s only legacy.
Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.Gamblers have been trying to overcome the house edge in roulette for centuries. Most of them have met little to no success.
But some of them have succeeded.
Some of them even learned how to predict the numbers when playing roulette.
That might be the best way to beat the game, in fact. After all, if you know which number is going to come up, you can guarantee that you’ll win your next bet.
1- Developing Your Innate Psychic Powers
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I don’t believe in psychic powers, but I understand that some of my readers do believe. In fact, I have a close friend who’s a phone psychic, and he’s convinced that he really has “the gift.”
I just don’t think anyone has ever provided any convincing evidence of precognition in anything like a controlled setting.
But if you want to develop psychic powers to beat roulette, here are some tips I’ve found:
- Visualize your third eye.
- Meditate.
- Pray.
My yoga teacher has me do this during our sessions. I don’t think it’s helped me with predicting the future, although the longer I’m sober, the better able to predict the future I become.
The idea is that your third eye is what’s going to be able to see the energy fields surrounding everything and help you predict the future.
I’m a big fan of meditation because it has benefits that are entirely separate from trying to be able to tell the future. Meditation can help you lower stress, and it can help you be more present. It’s not hard to do, either. Start small and work your way up.
Some people firmly believe that by increasing their connection with God or the universe, they’re able to tap into intuition that isn’t available to other people who are cut off from the source.
Prayer and meditation put you in touch with the source of everything, which, in turn, enables you to predict the future with more accuracy.
How you pray and meditate is, of course, up to you.
But I don’t know anyone who claims to have psychic powers who isn’t praying and/or meditating on a regular basis.
2- Watching the Dealer
Do some roulette dealers hit specific numbers more often than other numbers because of their dealing habits?
If you could spot some kind of croupier tell or dealer signature in roulette, you could clean up.
Realistically speaking, though, dealers can’t force the ball to land on a specific number. That’s just not a realistic feat.
But you don’t need them to hit the same number repeatedly. You just need to know which section of the wheel the ball is most likely to land in. If you know that, you can bet all the numbers in that section and win more often than probability would lead you to win.
And you don’t even need a huge change in probability to make this worthwhile.
Most experts agree that so-called “sector slicing” isn’t a realistic way to predict even a subset of roulette numbers, but let’s look at the math of why that would be great if you could pull it off.
When you place a single number bet, you have a 1/38 probability of winning that bet. The payoff is 35 to 1, so the casino has an obvious edge.
But if the probability of landing on some numbers is better, say 1/34 instead of 1/38, then the edge tilts away from the casino and toward the player.
It’s possible, though, that a dealer lands in a specific section of the wheel more often than usual without even knowing it. After all, this is all muscle memory for the croupier. He releases that metal ball into action at a specific speed and at a specific time.
You might even want to track how far away from the release point the ball usually lands. Let’s say that the ball always lands 10 or 14 numbers away from where it’s released. You’d have a huge advantage being able to bet on those 10 or 14 numbers, even though the actual numbers would change every game.
3- Watching the Ball and the Wheel Closely
Twenty years ago, you could find numerous books and articles about how you could predict approximately where the ball will land just based on looking at it. Such a strategy isn’t widespread anymore, but is it possible?
First of all, you’d need to be able to gauge the speed of the ball and the speed of the roulette wheel. I’m not sure if you’ve spent much time at a roulette table, but just the idea of trying to do that boggles my mind.
The speed of the wheel is probably more important than the speed of the ball, but both matter. You also need to keep in mind that the ball is going to bounce around a little bit before falling into a numbered pocket.
Practically speaking, this strategy works like the dealer signature strategy. Only instead of looking for a trend unique to that dealer, you’re just watching the ball and the wheel and placing your bets quickly on what you predict based on the ball speed and wheel speed.
This might be worth a try, but I still wouldn’t gamble money I needed for other purposes on this approach.
4- Using a Device
Using a computer to predict where the ball will land in a roulette game is considered cheating. In Nevada, that’s a felony. You do NOT want to get caught doing this.
In fact, I recommend against even trying this. There are easier ways to get an edge when gambling that don’t involve the risk of going to jail.
But gamblers have used roulette computers to beat the game. Such a computer works like a radar gun that a highway patrolman uses – it tracks the speed of the ball. It also analyzes angles and predicts where the ball will land.
As with the other methods mentioned already, you’re going to bet on multiple numbers at once, not just one number.
Even a computer can’t predict a specific number with any kind of accuracy.
5 – Determining the Bias of a Wheel
It’s not just dealers that have a bias. Some wheels are imperfect, and they might have a bias toward and against specific numbers, too.
To find a biased wheel, you would need to track the results for at least 1000 spins. Even then, the margin of error could be significant. In any small set of random occurrences, some are going to deviate from what probability predicts.
That’s deviation, not bias.
A better approach might be to try to track 10,000 spins.
But you’ll run into a couple of problems with this advantage technique:
- The first is that you might spend all this time “clocking” a roulette wheel only to find that there’s no bias at all. Then you’ve just wasted your time.
- The second is that even if you find a roulette wheel you’re convinced has enough of a bias to make it worth your while, that wheel might move or be replaced at any time.
Finding a biased roulette wheel sounds like a great advantage strategy in theory.
But in real life, it isn’t practical at all.
6- Embrace the Gambler’s Fallacy
I can promise this technique for predicting the next roulette number won’t work, but we’ll talk about it anyway.
The Gambler’s Fallacy is when you believe that the probability of something that’s going to happen has somehow been affected by what’s already happened.
We know that it’s unlikely to get a red result eight times in a row on a roulette wheel. If the ball has landed on red seven times in a row, we might predict that the ball is surely going to land on black on the next spin.
Mathematically, that isn’t true.
But you might embrace it anyway and try to use that to inform your betting decisions.
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It won’t help in the long run, but it’s as useful as any other strategy.
7- How to Predict the Next Roulette Outcome With 100% Accuracy
If you could tell your friend that you could predict that the ball will land in a specific number set, how could you be sure that you were correct 100% of the time?
Just predict that the ball will land on either a 0, a 00, or the numbers 1 through 36.
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You could even bet on all those numbers, but if you did, you’d lose money consistently and repeatedly because of the house edge.
Conclusion
There are seven ways to predict roulette numbers. I’m not confident that you can use any of these methods consistently to win money in a modern casino but give any or all of them a try.
Well, except for the computer.
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If you see some success – or even if you don’t – share your experiences in the comments.