Beating Vegas Roulette
Remember to stay realistic about the long odds on this popular game of chance. Approach roulette with the sober realization that, with a house advantage of 5.26 percent on the American wheel, roulette is among the worst bets in a casino. Despite the odds, you can still use some simple strategies to stretch your roulette. Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel.In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number, various groupings of numbers, the colors red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18). Roulette is a Short-Term Game. Set a limit for your losses and set a goal for your winnings before.
Breaking Vegas is a television series that premiered on The History Channel in the United States in the spring of 2004. The series covers the great lengths people have gone to make money, sometimes illegally, from casinos. It premiered in Pakistan on January 19, 2006 and was renamed Decoding Casinos in India on May 9, 2006. In the Spring of 2007,[citation needed] it aired on The History Channel and The Discovery Channel in Canada.
Many episodes have to do with cheats who illegally take money from the casino using sleight-of-hand tricks or some sort of gizmo. Namely, these scams include pastposting and card marking. Other episodes include famous examples of legal money-making techniques such as card counting. Some episodes are about legal strategies like winning at the craps table by throwing at certain angles using a certain grip with certain numbers at the top, or taking advantage of a worn-out ball bearing and a thus tilted roulette wheel.
The series was inspired by the two-hour History Channel documovie entitled Breaking Vegas: The True Story of the MIT Blackjack Team, written and directed by Bruce David Klein and produced by Atlas Media Corp.
The episode 'Professor Blackjack' is about MIT professor Edward O. Thorp's (portrayed by Jonathan Dickson) computer-based research on the Kelly criterion that was applied in real Vegas casinos in the form of computer aided card-counting schemes with very successful results. Manny Kimmell (portrayed by Peter Salzer), a known mob associate, provided the venture capital for Dr. Thorp's real life experiment and his contribution is described in the same episode.
Playing Roulette In Las Vegas
Episodes[edit]
- 'Breaking Vegas'
- 'Blackjack Man' — story of Ken Uston
- 'Card Count King' – story of Tommy Hyland
- 'The Gadget Gambler' – story of Keith Taft
- 'The Roulette Assault'
- 'Dice Dominator'
- 'Counterfeit King'
- 'Slot Scoundrel' – story of Tommy Carmichael
- 'The Ultimate Cheat'
- 'Vegas Vixen'
- 'Beat The Wheel'
- 'Slot Buster'
- 'Professor Blackjack'
- 'Prince of Poker'