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Happy New Year to the Inner Circle
Happy New Year to the Inner Circle
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No mate, loads of clever feckers out there, not many winning though. As said earlier no amount of stakes altering will turn a negative expectancy (the zero/house edge)into a positive one. It's mathematically impossible.
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have you ever read the book The Newtonian casino?
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No BB, read tons over the years, starting with "How to win at this and that" by Midas, he wrote for one of the Sunday papers. With games requiring no skill, such as Rouletts it's a losing battle against true probability.
Read a lot about "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo" he was an English engineer who realised that any spinning wheel has a bias. After much study in Monte Carlo he found the bias. As a result of his success, wheel changing became standard practice there. |
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Can't remember his name, but not Charles Well, who was simply lucky at MC using a high risk strategy with stolen money.
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01 Jan 15 11:31 Joined: 05 May 05 | Topic/replies: 6,574 | Blogger: boxingthefox's blog kenny, "a good read yes, but still a load of boloks mate." I completely agree, but it's entertaining. I don't believe that the events took place as described. Me neither, foxy. Basically the reverse system they used mathematically should have produced the same results as the origianl. Entertaining nevertheless. I had some great nights in the casino and met and spoke with some very well known people, and most were very pleasant. I reccall probably in the Bradford Stakis mid 80s the ex great footballer John Charles came in with dozens of others all in dress suits and dickys. They'd been to the boxing night at the Hilton next door. George Best had been booked as guest speaker. This was in the days when he was notorious for breaking engagements. John Charles came and stood next to be on the roulette table. I've got to speak to the great man I thought, so I said "Did George Best turn up". Did he boloks was the reply. A conversation with one of the greatest footballers that ever lived about another great player.Not to be sniffed at. |
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it's a good read BTF and a true story. They were all maths and physics wizzards who built a computer that was built into a shoe, and this sent a signal to another person who was doing the betting. They measured the velocity of the wheel against the velocity of the ball and they could predict in which 6 number segment the ball would land. They had to do a lot of work because this was in the days before micro batteries and all the chips had to be programmed from scratch. Most of them ended up working in Silicon Valley.
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I am always going round in circled. Does that count??
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All the stars came to the Bradford Casino after appearing at the famous nearby Alhambra Theatre as they stayed at the Victoria Hotel just over the road.
Chatted to Gerry Marsden while we were watching a football match, very pleasant he was too, also Bill Maynard who was equally nice. The biggest star was Stewart Granger but he was surrounded by heavies. |
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I think I saw a TV programme about the shoe gang, Burton. Ingenious.
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That story I'm familiar with, but not from the book, A similar thing is supposed to have been pulled off in "Card counting".
I goggled to find the engineering guy, but only found Charles Wells, It was the late 60s when I read it, He had a long surname like braithwaite, (I know that's a place not a person)Yorkshire sounding, It's all a haze now, sometimes can't remember what I did yesterday. |
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moisok
"I am always going round in circled. Does that count??" Are cowboys and covered wagons involved.  |
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Peter Fairley (had to look the name up) Science Editor for Independent Television News and TV Times magazine in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was always in The Sportsman (Silks mentioned earlier.)in the early 70s running around the table like a demented Tasmanian devil betting on many different numbers each spin. Never once saw him win anything worthwhile.
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Looks like I have hijacked the fred, hope the Inner circle, don't mind.
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Ron started it.
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Happy New Year to the Inner Roulette Wheel Circle Club Thing.
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Yeah where's Ron,
MMH, |
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Looks like I have hijacked the fred, hope the Inner circle, don't mind
you'd know as you would be hanging from under a bridge by now |
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Kinell BB is the penalty that severe, I'm gonna stop this "Little wheel" malarky. I have a rich mate who has a terrible stutter, gonna call to see if he wants to play snap for big stakes.
I'll get me smoking jacket. |
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Gods banker got stuffed but the Devils bankers all got clean away, how did that happen????
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Foxy, them blooming Russians want to take over everything.
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only CMAT knows
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Gambling is like that MMH, a 5/1 chance you'll blow the lot. .........no references to the other type of blow please!!
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As we're back on roulette...
I heard somewhere recently that a group of geeks are using miniature laser scanners to judge the speed of the ball and in roughly which area it will stop, and placing bets at the last possible second. I've only played roulette a few times in a casino. That was in Calgary, Canada. I lost a few quid the first night, but had all the luck going on the 2nd night. The next two nights I ended up about level, but no big stakes at all, just playing for fun. On the last night before we went to Vancouver there was a race meeting on the dirt track. Entry was free so we wandered in. I only had one bet, $50 on a 3-1 shot. The track is so small that even a 6 furlong race is over a lap. I got lucky as the race was well dodgy.  My horse was last with half a lap to go, but every horse moved off the rails to let it glide through and win by an easy 2 lengths. That was the first and last bet I had there. |
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All the best taxi.
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HNY Kenny ! (and the inner circle )
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U2 Leopard.
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Funny handshakes all round.
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HNY Foinavon.
I was a member of the Inner Circle, but it was "Colin Tinkler's" Inner Circle Horse Racing Syndicate sometime in the 70s. |
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Happy New Year, Kenny. We fooled the grim reaper for yet another one.
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Think there may possibly be a fe w years in us looking Jool's show on BBC2.
71 year old Jeff Beck, witha very impressive head of hair is not the oldest. |
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Happy New Year, Kenny. We fooled the grim reaper for yet another one.
And another mate. |
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^ Still time
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I see i was still having the same problems 2 years back Kenny!
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call me a taxi 01 Jan 15 14:22
I thought I had 30 friends for a minute, given the number of posts. Laugh Thanks to those who posted before the great roulette chat, |
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Still time
That's what I thought just after I posted, crags.  |
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Still time
That's what I thought just after I posted, crags. |
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indeed you were Ron.
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Happy 2017 to all. It's going to be really really interesting.
A big wet sloppy one with lots of tongue from your favourite Dane. |