The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-15
MONTE CARLO SYSTEMS.
Sir Hiram Maxim Explains the Folly of Playing against
the Bank and Relates Incidents.
(Sir Hiram Maxim in the European
New York Herald1

New York HeTaIdJ
ing os,s d h4fRe my se~een
which palported to give all pareSlars technical ana
esoa IS hs oo sae ts ssng ssO stons between
Winnings of the bank Were a oo5SoS year This sps
20 naeass 70 me mat inc PLAYERS or Europe ana
year sfaked H. back esl0os6Oe and left 100000
.o Ihs magnl,ude Of these figures staggered me
sll Il the bank actually Won n,e9eQ sterling
i quite evident fSi.oOcoO must have been
suTS G g visiting NoP's csTo % and d. %
taxing To- eos 10 s6Dte carlo i' and losing 10000 81 i
which the bsnk instead i Of Winning as shown in the
s91s book shout ~ per cent actually won more taan
bank instead OF being 81 TO So were approximately 10
\ French mathematician visited Monte carlo soms
ne wrote that the ordinary players At Monte Carlo
rhyme reason. numerous small sums ali over the
hHes as aea a the the pa 5k S sge5 Monies
d to M bank % drew 6 marea sSed ThS M
between them. and then the Casino and played
:, They geneTaily BY stalking 2of time
PIE PIE on the table Il they lost they spfnshsd their
" on cs one occasion noticed that the wife was patient
BACK Sut aS M en- @ lost ne fsx ohs % Ions
s zero did not some q2 but when zero d come up
the two players Sof, and about coup PLAYED
once in every thirty-seyen minutes.
tbirTsevs 5nte os 1d fbi e1 9 f s
staked but the play dragged on they usually staked
them from about O'Clock the afternoon until Q
is EXCEPTIONAL thing to from thirty forty
aha the United stakes Of the lot often amount to more
OF the bank on both color and numbers is to 81
h n aas s9a f th h bank are eaas to Se
oef words 9a he that the eight men who are Worn the
payers and haSdng tSem to anoseT coisslon Of
leo per hour. Not bad business
grea has said
and am wiling to admit that all systems are bad ana
system, the chances against the player being Just
crease asep his original stake y
he is playing double his stake and only MY plays
# he is more ambitious and wishes to make four
h sln his obiet bsres he IL sun more
ambitious and wishes to increase The amount oTay
than chance in hundred of doing So but stll he
However il he places small all g the board
in 9a sSgE On an a c o Of ne ever sn e6 P5 out
shes ssn Therefore system although one
~ e ssa You nd e %e by
replied: "greiI me first how much money you wish
to play with and tell you possible
She explained that she had set aside 600 for the
sastlsd YOU doubled that AMOUNT" asked.
Wen go the t5sptstquaEants room at time
even chances. and you vii stand about forty-nins
But she objected. suppose it? Then is
yes but you certainly stand almost an even chance
But then want to play
oh we'll; then play with 5-franc pieces
But prefer 10 play with something larger, 50
that
But I said. do not forget that s you.
is the bank that wins"
She did not like my system, so she ''punted, and
PLAYED promiscuously for about three days until the
whole Of her was completely out in paving
commissions to the hank And this is the way that
nneynine out of 100 people play at Monte Carlo
That gamblers supeTstitous prOverbial. but in
these hard. UnSyupathetic times not
recognize hoodoos fetishes good luck 1t is Simply
of plain. chance. and these
chances always bank
Blanc. organized the banks Monte Carlo,
was always glad people with systems and al
gave I'M cordial invitation their
tenn at his tables. When. however, he asked how
should gamble he said:
The most sensible advice that can be given to
oud-he gamblers inventors of systems to be USED
Monte Carlo may be summed up In a single word,