Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-12-16

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GAMBLING SYSTEMS.
WHY THEY WILL NEVER BREAK THE
BANK AT MONTE GALLO.
The Percentage II Always Against
the Player, and the Maximum Limit
Nallifies the Only sure scheme,
4 That OF Progressive Betting.
Truly Hope springs eternal In the
human breast!" How many inventors
have gone to Monte Carlo with infalli-s
BILE systems 1t Is impossible to say,
but probably they are to be numbered
BY millions, and not one Of them has
returned the victor. It ii the ambi-
tion doubtless Of every visitor to the
fascinating tables OF Monte Carlo to
.break the bank" Any player with an
extraordinary run OF good luck and the
nerve to press It Is liable to break the
bank," as the expression y commonly
understood, but no one will ever break
the BANK at Monte Carlo In the true
sense Of the phrase. "A
At the famous gaming rooms there
y not one, but many tables at which
players may stake. Each table starts
play for the day with capital Of 1OO,-
600 francs, ahd when that sum IL ex-
hausted the bank at that particular ta-
BILE Is broken, and play is suspended
until q fresh bank Of 1O0, 900 francs II
brought by the attend ntsa matter OF
. minute or two.
Is But to break the bank In the true
sense would be to exhaust the entire
capital q the casino, and that will
never happen, for three simple reasons.
The first Il that the bank lays unfair
odds to the player. This viii Illus.
rate az simply a. possible,
At roulette. the most popular form Of
gambling, there are thirtyseven num-
bers- from ! to 36 inclusive and O, or
zero. It is plain that the fair odds
against player correctly picking one
OF these thirty -seven numbers are 80
to /. But the bank only lays IS to ]. 4
Hence the bank has always, roughly
speaking, per cent advantage over
the player. To put It another way, 4
Q player backs the same number thir-
ty-seven times he ought according to
the fair odds, to come out exactly
square. but at Monte Carlo he cannot
do so. He must lose q point
This advantage Of the bank applies
10 all the other chances besides the
numbers on which the player may
stake. ;s3s Z; \
Take, Tor example, the 20 called
'seven" chance Of red or black. OF tho
thirty-seven numbers eighteen are red.
eighteen black, the thirty-seventh, zero.
having nominally no color
It Ii obvious that IL player backs
red there are nineteen chances eight
ssn blacks and zero) against his being
correct. The fair odds are nineteen to-
eighteen against him, but the bank
only lays even money.
The advantage. to the bank does not
end here, for when zero turns up the
bank takes all stakes except those on
zero and the even money chances. The
latter are put aside Zen prise" Is the
technical term.
IL on the next turn Of the wheel the
player on these even chances wins his
stake is released, and he may pick 1t
up, but he wins nothing 3
To win he must stake again, and
thus when zero turns up 1t is at least
two to one against player on an
.sven money" chance.
The second reason why the bank
must always win in the long run is the
existence OF the !"
The maximum (6,O0O francs, or f24O)
II the highest amount player can win
on any one chance. If a player with
unlimited resources could 60 on play
ing double or quits" with the casino
Indefinitely he would eventually break
the bank In the full sense Of the term.
But you cannot play double or quits
with M. Blanc for long. S4 Is
Starting with the minimum stake al
lowed viz, francs and doubling
your stakes each time. your eleventh
stake. supposing you to win or lose.
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francs, and you could double no longer.
In other words, you would have come
20 point at which yon could not on
one turn Of the wheel either double
your winnings or recoup all your losses.
Il All systems are designed to nullify3
the effects Of zero and the maximum.
II one could be certain that zero would;
turn mp. as It ought to turn up, once In
every thirty-seve turns, 1t could be
provided against, and the casino, even
with the help Of the maximum, would
b In a bad way.
But no such certainty is possibls,
and therefore every system splits on
this rock. And % with the maximum.
Perhaps the most fatal systems Of alt
are those based upon the theory that