What Challenges Did the Students Face in Beating Roulette?

Question

What were some of the obstacles the students faced when trying to beat roulette in Las Vegas casinos?

Answer 1

The students faced several challenges, including hiding their equipment, managing the awkwardness of tapping a microphone at the right time, dealing with malfunctioning equipment that caused electric shocks, and the risk of being caught by casino security. They also had to ensure that their betting patterns appeared random to avoid detection and had to deal with the physical strain of wearing the devices.

Comments

Ex croupier here. These guys were pretty smart and too bad they didn't rake in more money durin their operation.
Just for context, dealers are told, when a guest is winning big, change something with the spins. Either the cylinder speed or the speed of the ball. With practice a mid dealer could threw an opposite side ball, hence having unfair advantage over the players.

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If you sweating and nervous, that means you have not practiced under casino simulation.  When I counted cards in Vegas, we practiced for months simulating a busy casino.  You have to.  Counting was the easy part, prevent getting caught is where the game was won and lost.  If you practice enough, you are going to remain calm and relaxed.  simple as that

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If the problem was the heat, I feel like there was a simple solution to that. The more you win in a row, the more heat.

They could have set up with one computer-person and say 10 players. Each player should have a uniquely different playstyle. One might play 4-8 minutes at a time, starting low and gradually increasing bets. Another might just play 3-6 spins at a medium bet. Another might place high bets until they lose the first spin.

The computer-person could then sit for 60-180 minutes at a table, playing boringly just losing ordinarily. And then they could take turns joining the computer person to play. In between each visit, they could leave enough time for npcs to lose at the table, for the heat to disappear entirely. If no suckers had lost in between a visit, the computer-person could even signal “backoff” with say a particular bet.

They could probably hit vegas for about a week, come back a little while later with other clothes, hairstyles and makeovers and repeat.

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Ex Casino dealer from a very notable company, we were told if you see any guests winning big to mix up the spins and if a winning sequence was spotted to alert the security, a last resort was to change balls every 20 mins, we used all sorts pinballs, golf balls hell one time even used a bowling ball that night was a costly one i think half the wheel come in on that spin alone! I had to make my tips

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To think this only came to an end because these otherwise-incredibly-smart folks didn't think of a way to receive the information from their computer that wasn't "electrocuting themselves".

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In one situation it stopped working. A big fat guy was leaning on the table