Albert Einstein supposedly once said: “No one can win at roulette unless he steals money from the table while the croupier isn’t looking.”
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Although I wouldn’t normally question Einstein, this statement isn’t true. In fact, you can use Einstein’s specialist subject, physics, to help you win. Or you can find a biased wheel that makes some numbers more likely to come up.
What Einstein actually meant was that there is no mathematical trick that can help you win at roulette. Each spin is an independent trial and, in the long run, the casino will win. This is different to a game such as Blackjack where the probabilities change as cards are dealt.
But some believe that it is possible to exploit the way the roulette wheel, and the betting cloth, is laid out to give themselves an advantage. The idea is that you can make bets on the layout in a way that you are guaranteed to win. But is this really possible?
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Roulette wheel layout
Like a dartboard, the layout of a roulette wheel did not come about by accident. It was carefully planned and exhibits certain properties. In fact, there are two different layouts. An American wheel and a European wheel. The two layouts are shown below.
Notice that the American wheel has two zeroes. This is important as it doubles the advantage for the casino. On a European wheel you would expect to lose, in the long run, 2.7% of any money you bet with. On an American wheel you can expect to lose 5.26% (if you are interested in the mathematics of roulette, the video at the end will show you how these odds are calculated).
The numbers are arranged in a different order on each wheel but there are some similarities in the patterns. On both wheels, the red and black numbers alternate around the wheel, although if you removed the zeroes, the American wheel would have consecutive reds and blacks. The wheels are also structured so that the low numbers (1-18) and the high numbers (19-36) should alternate as much as possible.
On a European wheel, this is only violated where the 5 sits next to the 10 (both low numbers). On the American wheel, there are many examples where this rule is violated. It is for this reason that the American wheel is considered not as balanced as the European wheel. Both wheels also try to distribute odd and even numbers as evenly as possible. But again there are a number of violations of this rule on both wheels.
On the European wheel there are two other interesting symmetries. First, all the low red numbers and black high numbers are on one side of the zero, and the high red numbers and low black numbers are on the other side. Second, the sequence 29-7-28-12-35-3-26-0-32 contains no numbers between 13 and 24 (the second dozen). You can place a bet on the whole of the second dozen, with odds of 2-1.
So, can we beat the maths?
A simple search on Google will return many (possibly millions) of systems for playing (and supposedly winning) roulette. Some easy, some complicated, some well described, some not so.
A system should really be a combination of a playing strategy and a money management strategy. Perhaps the best known money management strategy is the Martingale system. This system is guaranteed to win money as long as you have enough of a bankroll to double your bet after every loss and you do not hit the table limit, which you will quickly do so. The Martingale system is probably the quickest way to bankruptcy known to man.
Whatever betting strategy, and money management strategy, you choose, they all suffer from the same fate. Assuming that each number on the wheel has the same probability of being selected – meaning the wheel is not biased – the maths means the casino will always win. The system may look good, and may work in the short term, but when one of the numbers comes up that you have not bet on you will lose and the casino will move towards its win expectation (2.7% or 5.26%).
Some systems involve betting on many numbers, perhaps 20. In this case, you will win quite often as you are covering more than half of the numbers. But when one of the numbers does not turn up (and it will almost half the time) you lose all of the 20 bets you have made. This will often wipe out any wins to date.
Any system, so far devised, can be analysed to show that there is a win expectation for the casino. The following video shows the maths.
You might as well place a single chip on the same number every time and hope that it appears more than it should during the short time that you are playing.
We can dress up the layout of the wheel, the layout of the betting cloth, our number selection and our money management system however we like, but the maths is always there, quietly working against us. You might as well just have fun, pick random numbers and trust to Lady Luck. Either that, or do as Einstein suggested and steal chips (not that we’d recommend it).
By C. ben-David
Bring out the guns, we love the danger
One, two, three, just pull the trigger
One bullet left inside the chamber
Let us play some Russian Roulette
One, two, three, just pull the trigger
One bullet left inside the chamber
Let us play some Russian Roulette
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Russian roulette is a highly lethal game of chance in which players insert a single cartridge in a six-shot revolver, spin the cylinder, place the muzzle against their head, and pull the trigger praying to “lose” if the loaded chamber does not align with the primer mechanism and the barrel, causing the weapon to discharge. (Russian refers to the supposed country of origin, and roulette to the element of risk-taking and the spinning of the revolver’s cylinder, which is like spinning a roulette wheel.)
The odds of “winning” — and dying — are at least one-in-six pulls, which increase exponentially each time the trigger is yanked.
My question is whether we are playing a Vincentian version of this deadly game at Argyle International Airport (AIA) several times a week by encouraging planes packed with our very own people coming home from one of America’s leading COVID-19 hotspots in both infections and death rates, Brooklyn, New York, and from the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario, which scores very high on both indices. In fact, Brooklyn and Toronto have just increased their lockdown regulations with the former again closing all its schools as the virus enters its most hazardous second wave.
Both Brooklyn and Toronto have always been home to the majority of Vincentians living on the North American mainland mostly in the crowded low-income neighbourhoods where COVID-19 tends to spread the most. This is compounded by the fact that it is well known that COVID-19 proportionately kills far more people of African-Caribbean descent living in North America and England than any other ethnicity.
The flights carrying these almost exclusively Black Vincentian passengers non-stop from North America are American Airlines flight 2301 which flies out of Miami every Saturday carrying our people in-transit from New York and, going forward, Air Canada flight 930 which will arrive at AIA every Monday loaded with mostly Black Vincentian Toronto residents.
With no LIAT access from Barbados and very limited Caribbean Airlines routing through Barbados and Trinidad, these two weekly flights are fully booked with a total of 310 passenger seats.
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It is well known that SVG, unlike many other Caribbean countries, not to mention most countries around the world, has never issued an official ban on flights landing at AIA. Nor has our nation ever banned the landing of cruise ships or other pleasure vessels. Indeed, during the second week of November, Sea Dream 1, the first cruise vessel to resume sailing in the Caribbean since the start of the pandemic, was allowed to land passengers at Mt. Wynne Bay under the watchful eye of members of our police force despite the fact that one guest was soon found to be infected with this dangerous virus resulting in the cruise being aborted.
In other words, none of the bans on travel to our country have come from homegrown efforts to protect our people.
Presumably, the “open for business” sign hanging over our country is because we have seen no Coronavirus deaths and relatively few infections compared to many other countries, at least so far, despite the fact that many people have landed in our medically-challenged country infected with the virus.
Exacerbating our welcome sign at AIA and elsewhere has been our slack attitudes towards COVID-19 mask-wearing and physical distancing, not to mention the repeated attempts by many of our people (scrupulously reported by iWitness News) to evade government-mandated quarantine rules including, hypocritically, by the government itself when it exempted Sandals executives from this mandated requirement in late October.
Just as mind boggling, the same government foolishly closed our schools for six long months in the absence of any scientific evidence that this was necessary: young people rarely contract or spread COVID-19 and hardly any die if they do become infected.
If truth be told, we are masters of making silly or reckless decisions: far too many of our people have died from highly preventable causes like dangerous or drunk driving, drowning, unsafe sex, and, perhaps most of all, from incompetent or indifferent medical treatment.
Truly also, we have been very lucky to date playing this very perilous game of Russian roulette. But our luck is bound to run out as time goes on especially given that as a tiny and inconsequential nation we will be very lucky to procure much vaccination relief before the middle of next year.
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What all this means is that our past record and future prospects say that we will have to wait for doomsday to land on our shores before any shutdowns are imposed through our own efforts by which time it will be too late to regret that we took one pull too many on the Russian roulette trigger.
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