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Originally Posted by polpolpol1900
Since thread has been derailed. Mind as well add this roulette "tip" I heard.
Was playing poker a couple of weeks ago at the casino. Ended up chatting it up with this 20 something right next to me. Casual convo, about travel, his military background, etc. Anyway, he starts telling me about his routine at the casino. Don't remember exact order, but he'll go play Baccarat, Blackjack, Craps and then Roulette everytime he visits.
Anyhow, for roulette he tells me he always plays the dozen bets (pays 2-1). Either 1-12, 13-24, 25-36 or the columns, and always bets 2 out of the 3 (giving him close to 66% odds of hitting less the percentage you deduct for the zeros.) And iirc, he normally bets only after the wheel has spun or certain times of the day/week. Cause supposedly from what he was told by his mother who happens to also be a roulette dealer herself. That on certain nights (usually the busy nites Fri,Sat), they have these roulette dealers he calls "killers" (normally found in the highstakes room), that can basically put the ball within 2 or 3 spots of where they want on the wheel. And by him betting after the wheel has spun, they can't mess with his bets or go after him.
And according to him, most roulette dealers including his mother who he saids has fat fingers is able to put the ball into a general area of the wheel.
Not sure, how true this is, but hopefully someone can shed some knowledge on this.
A friend of mind referred me to your post. I sometimes play roulette for fun, nothing big, pretty much grinding free drinks while waiting buddies, etc.
I have this 'funny' story that happened to me in Australia, in 2009.
I was waiting for friends to go out, and hit up a roulette while doing so, I sat at a table where I was the only guy playing, the dealer was a very friendly women. I loaded up 200$ and played 10$ a piece on the colors, just for fun.
We started talking and all, she learned I was from Canada and she always wanted to go to Canada, so we talked about that, she also had a son pretty much my age and we talked about that, we were pretty much having fun and had been playing alone for maybe 15 minutes. I got a semi-heater, was up maybe 200$ playing mainly 10$ and 20$ bets.
Then I started losing like 4-5 in a row, we were still chating, and still having fun, she was really nice to me and I am a pretty nice person myself so all was good. I also explained to her I was only here waiting for friends, was a poker player and not a gambler, came for poker, etc etc.
I started martingale a little, 25$ bets, 40$ bets, kept losing. I was pretty much back at even or slightly losing, still only playing the colors, we had been playing for like 20ish minutes now, always alone.
She then told me, "You never play the green??, you should green hits often", I replied, "naah, just betting the colors, I don't really do the green" ...
She then spins and the green hits. She doesn't say a word, just a little smile like 'told yah'.
I prepare my bet again, colors again, she tells me (and this is where I think I was a huge fish) : "You know, when the green hits once, it hits again very often"
Once again, being the immature canadian kid playing for fun, I replied : "Hehe, yaah but, meeh, I just bet red and black, you know, just having fun"
She replied : "But green pays a lot!"
I replied : I know i know...
And she then re-binked the green.
This story is true, with the dialogues probably being a little different but same idea. She didn't say a word after the second green binked, no smile, no nothing, it was a bit of a ackward moment. We then played 1 more hand after this and she didn't say a word either before the hand either, felt as if she already 'said' too much. It was her rotation, I tipped her good even tho I was stuck and said good bye, she said thank you, nice to meet you and everything.
I have talked about this story many times (not lately, since it's 2009), most people tell me it's variance/luck but in the context I simply cannot believe it is.
What are the odds of us being alone at the roulette, us being very friendly to each other and opening up about how it is back home, etc etc. Chatting and having fun. With this context, and then being said twice in a subtil way that something is gonna bink (and being braindead and not listening obv), and seeing it happen, right before the shift change?
I honestly think she tried to make me hit and I was just too stupid to listen. So I am a believer in the dealers that can bink something easily (maybe closer to a 2-3 number spread range then an actually number for most of them).
Anyway, what do you think? Simply coincidence or she tried to cheat for me?