Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-10-04

shall be winners 1t of course can be equally
well applied to any other similar gk1ne Of
chance, such as the toss Of dollar. The
presence Of the 0 and 90 in roulette does not
affect it. Although it is simplicity itself, yet
1T is somewhat difficult to explain.
4 Briefly told it consists in man agreeing to
make bets on certain figure and then placing
five Of those figures in row. When he loses
he places the amount Of his loss at the end of
the row. and in another row marked closes, .
and then for his next bet adds together the
first and last figures Of the row. When he
wins he places the amount in q row marked
winnings and crosses off the first and last
figures in the row and makes his next bet the
aggregate Of the two figures next to those
thus crossed off. By continuing this process,
in time, no matter what the losses and win
nings may be, all the figures in the row will
be crossed off, when the player will discover
that he is inevitably winner to the extent
of five times his original bet If his first
wager Is for SIS he will find that he is s25 in
pocket Any one can test this system by the
tossing Of a coin and the calling of heads and
tails .
Some figures may make it more plain. A
man determines to invest $25 in IS wagers on
the calling Of the color i'll roulette In his
mind, or upon piece of paper, he places the
figure five in row five times, thus:
S S 5 S 5
The first time he loses, and he therefore
places at the end of his row and 5 in his
column of losses, as may be seen in the table
below. Adding the first and last figures to-
gether, he next bets $40 and, again losing,
places the figure 10 at the end of his row and
in the column of losses. Henow, in pursuance
of the rule, bets $15, and losing again,
places SIS at the end of his row and in his
column of losses. Twenty dollars is his next
bet, but as this time he wins, he places the
20 in the column of winnings and strikes off
the first and last figures in his row, which are
5 and Is.
Consequently, still pursuing the rule, his
next bet is $15-the sum of and 1O-which
he wins, and that figure goes into the win
ming column and the figures and 10 are
stricken from the row. -Four figures now re-
main-all of them fives-and adding the first
and last together the next bet is $40, which
is lost, and the figure 10 goes at the end Of
the row and in the column of losses. This
makes the next bet SIS, which is lost, and
again Is goes at the end of the row and
among the losses Now $40 is the wager and
wins, and that amount having been placed in
the proper column the figures and Is are
stricken from the row. This leaves Is as the
next bet, which wins again, which places
that figure in the fortunate column and re-
moves 10 and S from the row.
Now but two figures remains and each is a
5. The bet is $40 and it wins and the row is
wiped out, and the first experiment with the
system is at an end. The total of losses is $55
and the aggregate Of winnings is $780, show
ing difference in favor of the player of ex-
actly $25, or five times the original wager.
No matter how often this may be tried or
how long fortune may prolong it, the result
will be the same. This sum in gambling is
demonstrated by the following figures. The
letter 81 !" shows the losses and the crosses
beneath the figures show how they are elm
mated from the problem in its course:
L L L L l..
IS S s S s 10 Is 10 15
Z XXX Xxx xE
Losses5 10 Is 10 15-55.
Winnings-2O Is 20 Is 1870.
It will readily be seen that the solution of
this apparent mystery is contained in the
fact that the players winnings are bound to
be in each individual bet larger than his
losses, for upon each wager he adds each loss
to its predecessor.
The natural inquiry would suggest itself
why, if all this is true, any one cannot walk
into gilded bank of sin and clean out its
Golfers. As matter of fact he could if the
gambling house proprietors would permit
him. But they won't, and therein lies the
fallacy of any one trying to conquer the
great American tiger. A very well known
gentleman to whom Leonard Jerome ex-
planned the above system, but who himself
never CANDLES, paid a friendly visit to John
.Daly's we'll known temple of fortune at Long
Branch He knew the proprietor well, and
as matter Of curiosity explained to him the
marvellous method Of the old Monte Carlo
croupier. DAILY experimentally twirled the
marble and the wheel and put the system to
arigid test. With aisardonic smile he ad-
mitted its absolute accuracy.
Said his friend: "a secret such as this is
bound to leak out and no bank can Withstand
1t. What will you do II q man comes in here
and plays this method against your gamer
"Oh, said John DAILY, with shrug of his
shoulders, .sthis sort Of thing won't worry us.
In the first place you must bear in mind that
Q man who thinks he has sure thing, such as
this appears to be, will play more than five
dollars at q time. He is apt to put down not
less than twenty five dollars in the wager,
and you can readily see that in the doublings
upof this sum he would frequently have to
bet more than one hundred dollars at one
time. Even il he bet ten dollars at time
and had many successive losses, which is not
unusual, he would be obliged in order to win
by this system to make some one wager 60
beyond the century mark Now we have
reserve rule, as have all other houses Of this
kind, for our own protection, and that per-
mits lls at any time to make one hundred dol