The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-11

the railway officials, and the croupier's
living at boarding houses, all send in the
results of their observations every day.
Now, as to the precautions against OBJ
Stinate good luck for punters. The first
is in the fact that the gambling house is
a cercle. a club, to which admittance is
gained on presenting a card issued by the
administration for one day only. This
card has to be personally renewed every
day, and nothing is easier than to refuse
this to a too persistent winner. No reason
is vouchsafed for the refusal, and the
staff of ''chuckers-Out" within easy
reach looks too convincing to attempt in
trusion or arguments. Should the objec-
tionable punter be too big game for such
a summary proceeding, there is quite an
army of agents provocateurs, both men
and women, around each table, and they,
according to instructions, pick up a quar-
rel with the lucky PROFESSIONALLY over
a stake-a. row ensueS, both parties are
chucked out, and then the instructor ex-
plains that the rule Of the cercle Is not
to admit again those who make a dis
turbance and spoil the partie. Recrimina-
tons are useless, and as whatever law or
justice there is at Monte Carlo Is in the
hands of the "SOciete des Bains de Mer''
just as is the police, there is neither pro-
lection nor appeal.
1t must. however. be explained here that
these extreme measures apply only to
ers-or TO lightning punters-gamblers
who come every day for few minutes
stake three times some maXimums, win
by some remarkable fiuke, and go away
These are the most hated, If only because
of the superstition as to playing sur la
tete ponte-that is, following en- masse
the stakes Of lucky player. There have
been cases where successive banks have
been broken thus. A roulette bank starts
generally with from $4,000 to $4,000, ac-
cOrding to season, and the bank is con-
sidered broken when this sum Is lost
Very often when the bank has been brok-
en- twice in succession the play is stopped
at this particular table and the roulette
taken away; another proof OF the pre-
cautions referred to, and as a patent in
stance that the administration does not
believe in the possibility Of pure chance.
1t is either the roulette or the croupier
that must be out of gear.
AS a matter of fact, a croupier does not
get out of gear, because after a certain
time, fifteen to thirty minutes, he sees
the disk moving and the ball rolling with
the same swing, so to say, and the result
IS that the ball will fall time after time
into the same section Of the disk; the
consequence of this phenomenon have
been more than once disastrous to the
bank in years past, hence croupiers are
changed every half hour, or each thirty
coups are made by a fresh hand some
500 coups are played daily at each table.
AS a further proof that the hand can
acquire a certain dynamic montony. if
one may use the expression, and a high
evenness of impulse. may be cited the
fact that at the Croupiers' school at the
Condamine there is a daily practice Of
aiming at zero" II is we'll known that
zero is the banks chance of winning
all other stakes except, of course, its
own, and the single ones which are put
zen prison." tied over until the next
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slant preoccupation and we find in this
practice another instance Of what was
said in the beginning about the chances
of the punter.
Rows happen mostly in the summer
season, when small players and system
players swarm around the tables. This
is also the busy time for those appointed
to watch over the various "martlngal-
istes," for, although the founder Of the
house, old Blanc, used to say that he
would give a million to anybody who
could prove that 1t Is possible to win
taiuty, still the present administration
will not even leave this loophole TO
chance. Hence a staff of ruined gam
blers, salaried by the society to spot sue
cessful "marttngalistes, discover in
what the system consists, and get rid of
them II too successful. The administra-
ton loves the punter who plays high.
even II he wins. provided he CANDLES
the whole day. They know then that the
money won viii come back. and all the
rest will follow.
Enough has been said we think. 10
prove the assertion with which we start
ed; anybody anxious for more details
may be referred 10 any croupier at
Monte Carlo. who will tell him that he
would rather play baccarat avec des
arecques than stake 8 francs at roulette.
This is, perhaps. exaggerated, but on
the whole. there is little TO choose.-Pall