Alleged high-tech roulette scam "easy to set up"

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Millennium — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:25:47 GMT

The entire story of Norman Packard is in The Eudaemonic Pie. With a sequel in The Predictors.

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RJOh — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:57:06 GMT

Odds of 1:35 of getting 35x your bet back makes it seem piratical and worth while to gamble at the roulette tables. Such odds with lottery games haven't existed for years. Years ago Virgina had a lottery with odds of 1:9K of winning a jackpot of $40K and an investment group tried to buy all the possible combinations and won the jackpot and Virgina changed their lottery laws and later their odds. Today the best odds I seen are 1:8 of getting 1x your bet back(Ohio Buckeye5 and similar games) and... [ More ]

Alleged high-tech roulette scam "easy to set up"

Lottery Post — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:20:35 GMT

An alleged high-tech roulette scam that saw three people walk out of a London casino with 1.3 million recently sounds too implausible even for a movie plot.But a physicist who developed a technology-based system that famously beat the wheel in the 1970s has told New Scientist that in theory it would have been fairly easy to carry out with a little know-how and the right tools.Two men and a woman were arrested on 16 March after raking in a huge win over two evenings. Suspicious casino staff are