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There is a book called "The Eudaemonic Pie" in which Wheel and Ball Timing was accomplished with the assist of a microcomputer back in the 1970's. The ball's speed is timed so that a prediction can be made about where it will fall off the rim. The Wheel is also timed to predict where it will be when the ball falls off the rim. Even if you are only able to predict which HALF of the wheel the ball will drop and settle into, you have produced a HUGE EDGE. Just bet numbers on that half of the wheel before bets are called off.

Of course if you are caught using a computer to do this you will be arrested and charged with a felony. But theoretically, if a computer can do it, it should be possible for a human savant to do the same thing. I'm afraid I'm not such a savant but suppose there was something else going on to simplify the job for a human.

Here's the thing I noticed while watching wheels. You can check this out for yourself the next time you're in a casino. I found a number of wheels with the following weakness. Whether it's due to a slight tilt or a worn rim, there are wheels where the ball habitually comes off the rim in the same area almost every time. Certainly if there's even a very slight tilt the ball would tend to drop from the highest part of the rim. Also, if the rim's drag is not completely uniform the ball would tend to drop from the area of greatest drag.

Now suppose you've found such a wheel. The relatively fixed ball drop area simplifies a big part of the job done by the computer. The ball no longer needs to be precisely timed to determine where it will drop. Of course you still need to predict when it will drop. But now suppose you find a further weaknes, this time in the Dealer. Suppose he spins a very consistent speed for the wheel - the slower the better. You can then use the wheel speed to aproximate the ball speed BY EYE. All you need to do is predict HOW MANY more ball revolutions remain before the drop. You can focus on one area of the rim and use the ball as a STROBE for the wheel. The ball will pass the spot at the same time as a wheel number. The next time around for the ball you will see the number on the wheel advance - ie. the ball is going faster than the wheel at this point. The next time around the number will advance less. When the ball is getting ready to drop the wheel numbers will be retreating. Practice doing this until you can predict, based on the timing of this Advance-Retreat, the number of ball revolutions left before drop. When you have your prediction for the ball you will also know where the wheel should be at drop time as well, based on how much retreating it will do for the number of ball revolutions left. Taking into account the average amount the ball travels over the wheel before it settles, place your bet on a number or numbers in that half of the wheel. If you can predict the correct half of the wheel in which the ball will settle significantly better than half the time you have yoursef an edge at Roullete!

I actually tried this at several Casinos years ago. Believe it or not I got HEAT for my play. At the Frontier they actually called down for another dealer and instructed him to spin the wheel as fast as possible - so it was impossible to estimate how far the ball would travel bouncing around the wheel before it settled. I couldn't believe it LOL. Getting Heat at a Roullette table! The dealer had the wheel spinning SO FAST the ball was actually popping out of it and onto the floor some of the time. I was marking on a piece of paper my successes and failures at predicting the correct half of the wheel - thinking I would look like just another guy with a Roulette system. Evidently that didn't work at the Frontier. Unfortunately, after some hundreds of trials at various casinos I found my tally came up just about 50-50. I really thought I could do it but the results just didn't hold up. I decided to give up on the project and devote my time to becoming the greatest single deck blackjack player alive - total recall of all the cards with perfect strategy variation based on the effects of removal. As my blackjack Act wasn't much better than my Roullette one I finally switched to poker.

I still think this can be done though. The best way would be with a team of at least two players. One to do the wheel-ball timing and small bet red black - odd even etc. as signals to the partner on which wheel section numbers he should large bet.

This is the first I've mentioned this outside a close cirle of friends. If you do it, just count me in for a point or two of the profits.