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Roulette naturally lends itself to the fantastic but true realm of casino gaming stories, as it’s the oldest game with the longest tradition, and has had the most written about it worldwide.Try these stories on for outsize:
Over a seven year period, between 1904 and 1911, William Nelson Darnborough from Bloomington, Illinois, challenged the monstrous Monte Carlo casino at roulette, winning close to a half million dollars (in early 1900’s currency, mind you). He did this after winning untold sums playing roulette in the United States in illegal casinos operated in saloons. Darnborough was a wheel watcher, a man who could anticipate with an unusual degree of accuracy where the ball would land. After winning his fortune, he quit playing to marry a beautiful young woman of noble blood whose family frowned on gambling. He lived happily ever after on a huge estate in England.
In 1971, Dr. Richard Jarecki operated on the casinos in Monte Carlo and San Remo to the tune of $1,280,000. Dr. Jarecki was a biased-wheel player who looked for wheels that were "off." He found them and stitched together quite a winning streak.
In a three-year period, from 1986 to 1989, Billy Walter’s roulette teams won approximately five million dollars from casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, also playing biased-wheels.
But all the above biased-wheel players owe a debt of gratitude to the granddaddy of biased-wheel play, the man who might have "invented" it–one Joseph Jaggers, who won $325,000 in 1873 from Monte Carlo. (How much would that be worth today?) Jaggers staggered Monte Carlo because until that time, no one–and I mean no one–had ever sustained a winning streak of his proportions at the famed casino.
Those are some of the men who performed heroically in the face of Lady Luck by using skill at roulette, but what about weird and wild streaks that were just old-fashioned, once-in-a-lifetime crazy luck?
Here is an eyewitness account from Barney Vinson, gaming instructor at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and author of the acclaimed books Casino Secrets and Chip-Wrecked in Las Vegas, of something that has only happened twice in "recorded" roulette history:
"Here’s a true story, and I saw it happen. At Caesars Palace on July 14, 2000, at 1:35 p.m., the number seven came up six times in a row at Roulette Wheel #211. To figure the odds of such an occurrence, multiply 38 x 38 x 38 x 38 x 38 x 38, or over three billion to one! The dealer said it was the first time he had seen this in his 27-year career. Another sidelight. After the ball landed on seven the fourth time, the floor supervisor told the pit boss, ‘I’ll bet you a million dollars that it won’t come up again.’ Then here it came again, and then again."
During this twice-in-a-century event, with players and pit bosses and dealers all agog at the incredible repeating seven, how much money did Roulette Table #211 lose? Hundreds of millions? Millions? Hundreds of thousands? Thousands? Nope, a mere $300!
Barney Vinson saw also something that has only been recorded one time before. The number 10 appeared six times in a row on July 9th, 1959, at the El San Juan Hotel in Puerto Rico.
Some other wild roulette "eyewitness" accounts aren’t as reliable as Barney Vinson’s, but I give them to you nonetheless, and you be the judge of their veracity. Black was said to have come up 23 times in a row at the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas (a dealer told me this in the early 1990s), or was it 22 times in a row at Caesars in Atlantic City (mid-1990s)? Red once came up 21 times but I can’t remember who told me or where it was. I just remember I was in Vegas and someone saying to me: "Here’s another glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, sir, and red once came up 21 times at that roulette wheel over there, no, no, turn your head, sir–that one over there!"
If you’re looking for strange to go along with your odds, try this one: A roulette ball rocketed off the roulette wheel, almost hit a croupier in the eye but he swiped at it just in time, hit it up in the air, where it bounced off a chandelier, came back down, ricocheted off a patron’s cigarette holder, then dropped back into the roulette wheel, where it landed in the four pocket. This happened in England. It was told to me by a flight attendant for American Airlines who claims to have witnessed it.
In a three-year period, from 1986 to 1989, Billy Walter’s roulette teams won approximately five million dollars from casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, also playing biased-wheels.
But all the above biased-wheel players owe a debt of gratitude to the granddaddy of biased-wheel play, the man who might have "invented" it–one Joseph Jaggers, who won $325,000 in 1873 from Monte Carlo. (How much would that be worth today?) Jaggers staggered Monte Carlo because until that time, no one–and I mean no one–had ever sustained a winning streak of his proportions at the famed casino.
Those are some of the men who performed heroically in the face of Lady Luck by using skill at roulette, but what about weird and wild streaks that were just old-fashioned, once-in-a-lifetime crazy luck?
Here is an eyewitness account from Barney Vinson, gaming instructor at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and author of the acclaimed books Casino Secrets and Chip-Wrecked in Las Vegas, of something that has only happened twice in "recorded" roulette history:
"Here’s a true story, and I saw it happen. At Caesars Palace on July 14, 2000, at 1:35 p.m., the number seven came up six times in a row at Roulette Wheel #211. To figure the odds of such an occurrence, multiply 38 x 38 x 38 x 38 x 38 x 38, or over three billion to one! The dealer said it was the first time he had seen this in his 27-year career. Another sidelight. After the ball landed on seven the fourth time, the floor supervisor told the pit boss, ‘I’ll bet you a million dollars that it won’t come up again.’ Then here it came again, and then again."
During this twice-in-a-century event, with players and pit bosses and dealers all agog at the incredible repeating seven, how much money did Roulette Table #211 lose? Hundreds of millions? Millions? Hundreds of thousands? Thousands? Nope, a mere $300!
Barney Vinson saw also something that has only been recorded one time before. The number 10 appeared six times in a row on July 9th, 1959, at the El San Juan Hotel in Puerto Rico.
Some other wild roulette "eyewitness" accounts aren’t as reliable as Barney Vinson’s, but I give them to you nonetheless, and you be the judge of their veracity. Black was said to have come up 23 times in a row at the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas (a dealer told me this in the early 1990s), or was it 22 times in a row at Caesars in Atlantic City (mid-1990s)? Red once came up 21 times but I can’t remember who told me or where it was. I just remember I was in Vegas and someone saying to me: "Here’s another glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, sir, and red once came up 21 times at that roulette wheel over there, no, no, turn your head, sir–that one over there!"
If you’re looking for strange to go along with your odds, try this one: A roulette ball rocketed off the roulette wheel, almost hit a croupier in the eye but he swiped at it just in time, hit it up in the air, where it bounced off a chandelier, came back down, ricocheted off a patron’s cigarette holder, then dropped back into the roulette wheel, where it landed in the four pocket. This happened in England. It was told to me by a flight attendant for American Airlines who claims to have witnessed it.
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