To start off our news, we’ll first go this interesting article by the Guardian.co.uk where it was reported that a certain Mr. Mark Howe, who sells the devices for £1,000 from a workshop in Sheffield (UK), claims his software will also work on level Roulette wheels. Mr. Howe gave the UK Guardian an apparently successful demonstration of the software he said earned him a substantial sum before he was banned from British casinos in the 1990s.
The device consists of a clicker that records the deceleration speed of the rotor and ball, a remote computer device concealed inside a mobile phone or MP3 player, and an earpiece that instructs a player which zone the ball will land in.
Mr Howe says a gambler with the equipment can gain an edge of between 20% and 100% over the casino, overturning the casino’s normal 2.7% edge over customers. “Next year is free hunting for anyone interested in making money from casinos,” he said. “All you need to use this is nerves, a good front and consistency.”
Further, it was reported that:
Keith Tayler, an ex-croupier and gaming inspector, says regulators are unwilling to ban predicting devices because it would amount to an admission that wheels can be biased. “The commission would be opening themselves to litigation or disputes at the table,” he said. “The last thing a casino wants is punters arguing about why their numbers have been missed all evening.”
The Gaming Commission wrote to Mr Tayler last year stating: “We now agree that roulette wheels can develop a bias of the type you describe and that, particularly with the use of electronic equipment, players can use the bias to predict with some accuracy the segment of the wheel in which the ball will come to rest, thereby giving them an advantage.”
No one from the world’s leading manufacturer of roulette wheels, TCS John Huxley, was available for comment.
Professional gamblers were reportedto be rushing to buy the £1,000 devices that they believe will enable them to win millions of pounds in casinos when the UK gambling industry was intended to be deregulated in 2007.
Hundreds of the roulette-cheating machines - which consist of a small digital time recorder, a concealed computer and a hidden earpiece - were tested at a government laboratory in 2004 after a gang suspected of using them won £1.3m at the Ritz casino in London.
After the research, which was never made public but which was seen by the Guardian, the government’s gambling watchdog admitted to industry insiders that the technology can offer punters an edge when playing roulette in a casino, and the advantage can be “considerable”.
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