The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-30
In such case the player would exactly reverse
this order and make his bets as follows;-
BLACK. RED.

This system, upon which book has been writ
ten, showing how with a capital of two hundred
and htty-siX forins, certain and sure profit of
sixty horins day may be made at roulette, is,
however, as fallacious as any of the others. Its
plausblity is very much heightened by the
assumed irregularity of the coups in the series
of eight against which it is proposed to be
played. In principle, it would be precisely the
same to assume that after black had appeared
eight times in succession, il could not immedi-
ately appear eight times more. The second
series of eight is quite as likely to follow the
first, in what may be called irregular, as in
regular order; ii is just as probable that in six
teen turns of the wheel the last series of eight
should be the same as the first, as that the red
or black, or any other simple chance, should
appear sixteen times in succession, which il
does by no means unfrequently.
There are many other more or less compli-
Gated systems, professors of which are found
ready to teach them to verdant pupils at all
the gaming-hells of Europe. 1t may be safely
said, however, that all are based upon fallacies,
and that, at least while the bank retains its
percentage, and limits the players to n maxi
mum and minimum, no banking game can be
beaten by system
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