Re: Beating roulette by wheel clocking?
Here are some typical procedures used in maintaining roulette wheels.
Suspended on hooks beneath at least one of a casino’s roulette tables is a large carpenter’s level. All wheels are checked for level daily, and adjusted as necessary.
Wheel heads are rotated to a new position daily, upon opening or closing.
Wheels are frequently moved from table to table, and in casinos with an extra wheel, changed in and out of play with one in storage. It is necessary to learn to recognize a “specific” wheel if you think you’ve spotted a “defect”.
Wheels are regularly broken down for inspection and maintenance, cleaning and oiling the bearings.
Surveillance will occasionally chart a couple hundred spins of each wheel. If any bias is to be strong enough to overcome the 5.26% house advantage, it must show up very quickly. If anyone tells you a story of clocking/charting a wheel for weeks, it is certain that they have not detected an “exploitable” bias.
While some high heat casinos with particularly unknowledgeable management (Barbary Coast comes to mind) might occasionally back off a wheel player/clocker, it is much more common for a casino to extend a very high level of comps to a wheel player with a system, literally sending the limo to pick you up.
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