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Roulette Results - How many spins do casinos use to determine the unbiasness of a roulette wheel?
| January 5th, 2012 at 2:54:25 PM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5714 | I wonder how easy it is to correct a bias. Is it easier / cheaper to just replace the wheel if bias is suspected? The wheel that you notices was replaced could have been replaced for a variety of other reasons. I.E. It may have had a wobble, crack, noise, or whatever. Spinetti's and Gambler's General Store sells 30" wheels in the $6,000 range. That's too expensive for me to own one, but it might be chump change to a casino. Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
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| January 6th, 2012 at 7:15:23 AM permalink | |
| P90 Member since: Jan 8, 2011 Threads: 7 Posts: 1117 |
Not a specialist on roulette wheels at all, but in similar mechanical systems, 99 times of 100 the device would be calibrated, not replaced. Industrial motors and rotating devices in general tend to have balance weights/mounting outright, for instance. The more common causes of roulette wheel bias are certainly not a mystery to the industry, and it shouldn't take long for a properly qualified mechanic to determine it and repair the wheel, if it's anything like other similar systems. So I would imagine at least the larger establishments with service contracts probably have their biased wheels repaired. And before the bias comes to possible break-even point, too. |
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