New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-04-12
GA MILLING s YsTEMS.

| GA n MBLI MS.
| WHY THEY WILL NEVER Break the
BANK AT MONTE CARLO.
The Percentage Is Always Against
the Player, and the Maximum Limit
NuIHfies the Only Sure scheme,
That of Progressive Betting.
Truly hope springs eternal in the
human breast" How many inventors
have gone*to Monte Carlo with infalli-
i bic systems it is Impossible to say,
4 by millions, aud not one Of them has
returned the victor It is the ambi-
/ ton 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
i nerve to press it is liable to break the
i bank. as the expression is commonly
understood, but no one will ever. break
! the bank" at Monte Carlo in the true
sense Of the phrase.
i At the famous gaming rooms there
/ is not one, but many tables at which
4 players may stake. Each table starts
!. play for the day with capital Of 1O0-
s 600 francs and when that sum is e1-
hausted the bank at that particular ta-
bic is broken, aud play is suspended
until a fresh bank Of 100000 francs is
brought by the attendants matter of
minute or two.
But to break the bank In the true
sense would be to exhaust the entire
4 capital Of the casino, and that will
never happen, for three simple reasons.
The &rst is that the bank lays unfair
odds to THE player. This I will illus
trate as simply as possible.
i At roulette, the most popular form of
4 gambling, there are thirty seven num-
bers-from / to 36 inclusive and 0, or
4 zero 1t is plain that the fair odds.
i. against a player correctly picking one
q Of these thirty-seyen numbers are So
to l. But the bank only lays 35 to /. I
Hence the bank has always, roughly
q speaking, "a 3 per cent advantage over
4 the player. To put it another way, II
s. q player backs the same number thir-
8. ty-seyen times he ought, according to
s the fair odds, to come out exactly
I square, but at Monte Carlo he cannot
Z do So He must lose a point.
This advantage of the bank applies
to all the other chances besides the
- numbers on which the player may.
Il stake.
Take, for example, the so called
& "eyen'' chance of red or black. OF the
thirty-seven numbers eighteen are red
i eighteen black, the thirty-seventh, zero,
having nominally no color.
1t is obvious that if a player backs
: red there are nineteen chances eight
: cen blacks and zero against his being
correct. The fair odds are nineteen to
l eighteen against him, but the bank
$ only lays even money.
2 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-''en prise" is the
1 technical term.
t II on the next turn of the wheel the
5 player Oh these even chances wins his
stake is released, and he may pick it
up, but he wins nothing.
To win he must stake again, and
thus when zero turns up it is at least
5 two to one against a player on an
'.even money chance.
The second reason why the bank
must always win in the long run is the
existence of the maximum.
, The maximum $1,000 francs, or f24O)
Is the highest amount player. can win
on any one chance II player with
!, unlimited Resources could go 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 NJ Blanc for long
Starting with the minimum stake al
loWed-YiZ, ) francs-and doubling
: your stakes each time, your eleventh
stake, supposing you to win or lose
consecutively, would be over 5000
francs, and you could double no longer.
! to a point at which you could not on
one turn of the wheel either double
! your winnings or recoup all your losses.
. All systems are designed to nullify
Z the effects of zero and the maximum.
If one could be cN4ain that zero would
turn up, as it ought.to turn up, once in
: every thilty-seyen turns, it could be
z provided against, and the casino, even
: with the help Of the maximum, would
: be in bad way.
: But no such certainty is possible,
: and therefore every system splits on
: this rock And SO with the maximum.
Perhaps the most fatal systems of all
are those based upon the theory that
!. It red has come up a certain number
Of times running black will follow. 70
$ Illustrate the folly of this theory, take
the following example: If you toss 4
penny in the mir 1000 times and 1t
comes heads 900 times it Is Of course
S. only even money on its being tails the
: next time.
4 The third reason. if. indeed. another