Prediction and Roulette Modern Wheels

Roulette wheels are manufactured in England by Cammegh, TCS/Huxley, kingroulettes (zvonimir roulette) in Croatia, Prior in USA, Carlo in France. Some wheels are made with such precision that it is almost impossible to devise a system to win large sums of money from a casino. This is especially true at large casinos with their advanced technology and security systems.

After Huxley introduced its new wheels into the world's casinos, most other smaller companies went out of business. Then in the 1990's, Cammegh Roulette Wheels came into the market and today, they are the main competiton for the John Huxley wheels worldwide. Between them, they supply over 90% of casinos with roulette wheels...and the winning number displays.

	1995 John Huxley "V" shape pocket wheel
	1993 Cammegh "scallop" pocket wheel. Cammegh patented the scallop shape wheel - Huxley then came up with a different style to compete. Both use a solid one piece separator ring.

The modern roulette table will have a roulette wheel with a variable speed mechanism, a reader camera and display that shows the winning numbers and gives an immediate analysis of the wheel history. The security of the wheel and game will use the latest micro/nano technology.

There has been a growing number of web based online so-called experts offering a system to beat roulette. They range from mathematical mumbo-jumbo to hand held devices such as mobile phones or PDA's. They are just a continuation of scam artists trying to sell the ultimate dream "how to beat the roulette wheel."

The obvious question is why would they sell you a system and have it known worldwide. The obvious answer - because it doesn't work.

Mathematical systems are completely out of question, as any threat to casinos, many online casinos actually promoting various systems just to get customers. However Roulette Visual Prediction and computers do have a chance to overcome house advantage on some wheels. Often many scamming sites represent it as a guaranteed way to win on all kind of wheels, which of course is not the truth.

To turn house advantage to player’s advantage it is easier to achieve it if player is applying adequate technique on wheel where the ball has dominant drop point. This kind of wheel is in usual caused by slight tilt of the wheel (tilted wheel). Advantage is also possible on some leveled wheels, but to be effective that would require particular conditions. One of course is externally accurate device with capability of real time measurements with appropriate algorithms for calculation. (Programs developed on mobile phones or PDA’s definitely are not suitable for such tasks).

Additional requirement is that wheel / ball do not have deformations and that prediction can be done later in time.

Even with all conditions prediction on leveled wheel still may not be effective on some wheels due to very wide ball bouncing across rotor, or by wheel constriction by itself. Wide ball scatter across the rotor reduces player’s advantage, by making it hard for him to define where that slight advantage is. Since it leaves him with possibility of only slight advantage, due to sensitiveness of modern wheels, parameters may easily change which may shift results and advantage to different position.

Casinos win not only because of the house edge, but because of "churning" i.e. gamblers put their winnings back into play. An example of this is double zero roulette, whereby the true house edge is 5.4% but the casinos average win is 25-30% because of churning. Even if player plays with advantage he should be very careful with amount of bets to not lose all money if reasonable amount of unpredicted spins occurs. One of advanced approach in managing bets based on players advantage is Kelly’s Progression discussed at this thread at ruletteplace.com.

Reference material
ROULETTE WHEEL STUDY
by Ron Shelley
The book can be purchased at http://www.gamblersbookclub.com/