The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-13

IooN TINS over and yuu will So. that
Won hav. lost five. bets and won only four
Add il up and Won will find that you have
won 100 francs. Can You anord '" WIN
only tour bets out of 1--WE: In" per
c..ntny. Of the gam" gives you AN eNpec-
tatinn OF wIAllng eighteen times ann
losing ri Eht .-an and a half in every thirty
s.v..u rolls uf tin" hall Tn" other hall
TN. nank l,.ta IA it, percentage. lnung
W-ntwprrhs idea was that he could anoTn
10 los. twenty times ou' OF thlrtN-SiN ana
still beat the game.
Here IL the, record uf "A friend OF the
writer's who tried this system az Mont"
Carlo 10 win ~ francs "A day. III" hrst
bets went Just az shown above. bhi TAX"
a pencil and follow ou' this s"ri'| al
events q,
Instead of winning AZ tho poinr marked
~ n. lost four straight bets IA" won
once. and lost -four more. lie then won
three coups IN succession and lost five
After winning ON" bet h." lost eleven
straight
IL Won will hRIr" this up ON rh- basis
OF irving To- win IN francs You viii hnd
that Young " afi' worth would have b.''n
putting down 3 sdD francs On tn" tw'fth
roll of the ball Make him win four times
In succession and h. will he adding $50
francs each time 20 m" fgnr. at the
bottom Of the msrtingal., column. Two
bets go against him and h" il NJ the limi>
OF ,h. bank "a his next bet w.slld have
TO bs ESQ francs and even II he could
make that bet and win IL h. would still
b., 10 on francs go the bad trying fo win
100.
Looking over the record OF the play
made by the friend OF the writer. he has
Lost only seventeen more bets Than ne
has won. which in nothing unusual. yet
h. would have been i7.75O out OF pocket
and hi- system brought to "a fun stop
automatically bv the limit Of the bank
That means that he will have to come
there and win 100 francs a day for III
days before he will he out Of the woods
again.
Instead Of risk ing this amount to win
so little every day. why not put down
the q 600 francs and call IL your bet for
sixty DAYS and have done with it, II
il precisely the same thing in the end.
but the average gamtaer seems unable
! to ses' n
One OF the most extraordinary fetishes
among betting men IL the doubling VT
! fal,acy There ~ not the slightest dit
| ference. between doubling up and betting
everything at ON. time
| Let Tia SUPPOSE YOU want To win u dollar
! You start by betting dollar on some
even proposition lf you lose, II YOU he'
two and IL you los. that You het -four
! and II YOU los. that you bet eight and
thu, next time when YOU bet sixteen
, Let us suppose Won win. You win "A dollar
hut Won have risk ed SCI To do n
| In order Ia nv ke things even iIp with
your risk YOU should win dollar thirty
| one separate times and the odds aghIns'
| YOUR doing 20 are exactly 81 20 !. II
| Won stick to this doubling up system
! FOR twenty years You will find that you
/ ~tn lose your S3i every 'hirty-secund
J time and will have 10 bet So more To get
them hack Then Won are risking ssa
Z To win a dollar and every sivty-roUrth
| sim. Won will Io-" your ss2 You can
keep this up until you reach ~" limit
/ Nf the game Won ar" PLAYING gainst
which VIII he somewhere between y and
100 Why not put down the whole s32
or So or whatever YOU ar" prepared Ia
risk and have IL over NJ once
! Bur. Won say does nobody heat the
! gam. hy playing a system oh. ves'
b There are tho-,. who live on tho game and
3 some who hay" even made fortunes a. II
! ulaying svStenS There are always u
| number ~ stake players hanging around
every gambling horse. They never hav.
I "A dollar II their own. hui thew will make
A play for any visitor whD drops N 10
I take fi"r b'I' who has no confidence in
his own nerve or perhaps knows nothing
z 81 the game.
| All stake PLAYERS have n system and
when thew catch d'snl going their Nay
! in a faro bank or got "A r1In on their color
pattern al roulette they can ht' n iIp Tor
all the bank will stand for or all they can
get down on the layout. An old stake
I PLAYER formerly steamboat captain.
showed the writer "a careful record of hi-
winnings IN fifteen years in New Orleans
and Memphis playing faro. Had he kept
the money h" was -taked To- instead Of
| playing with II he would have been 90 IN
! ahead " rhe game
But there are exceptions 10 all rules.
| Any old tim" sporting man can recall the
name 81 Pe,tihone. who played faro in
the years Immediately after the war.
| PettIbone PLAYED colors and he PLAYED
a system Of bets known a. progression.
He pikad round until h" could bet his sys-
! tern on cases a. he could not 5s spiit on
them and the bank had absolutely no per-
centage against him. not ever a hun
dredth OF per cent.
His syst.fn Of ,,"lacting the cards to
bet on hai nothing more in It than tn
! keep him from guessing Tn" real system
was. aS N always ~, IN the manner OF
| betting II he bret hy. chips and lost Thorn
he bet ~ and il ne lost those he bet seven
A. soon he won bet his next bet was
one chip l'ea than the LAST
/ ANY person with pencil and n piece
| Of paper can cOnvinC" himself that II a
! player wins ton bets and loses ten while
| following out this system u docs not mat
| ter IN what order the winnings and los
! Ingr occur. h" must b' ten chips ahead
| at the end. on" chip for every bet h" wins
Playing on this system with dollar
| ChilS IN games IN which tho limit wa- sEsI
on ,'usnr and 500 on open cards II il said
that PPtfIbOn" Iuad" nearly "A million
dollars Whether this H. ri" or not u IL
certain that hs was on" Of the most for
tunnte gamblers that ever kept tab
When u progression player strikes "A
deal IN which things ar" going his way he
/ soon pnch"S down 10 nothing n. must
! then either bet against hS own system or
start over II he starts over again how
can he hoTc ever TO pinch down again II
things jlist even themselves? Suppose
he starts with ten chips and wins ten bets
| H.. ~ fifty five ahead. He starts in at
I ten again and gets ten bets behind. which
shows that he has won just ~ many az he
has lost on the whole play but he il
| I55 loser against his first fifty FIVE winner
and il betting twenty next time with no
hope ~ ever getting back home
The propri,tors are right. There il
no system, IA system. that will beat
the game.
! No, To, Hard ON the OtN Man