Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-06-09
Fat Man, Big Numbers Win;
Thin Men, Small Numbers,
Is One System.
KILLINGS" LIVEN CASINO
Heavy Losses at Monte Carlo Prove
Big Gard for. Advertising-Many
Systems offered the Gulllble
Yet Casino Continues
to Make Profit.

I,ondon.-There is one infallible way
Of winning money at Monte Carlo
writes a correspondent of the London
Times, and that is this: When Ld'
man is spinning the wheel bet on the
high numbers; when it Is a thin man
het on the low. 1t stands to reason
does II not?-that small man can
not throw big numbers. Another goou
nlon ia TO put your stake in front OF
YOU, shut your eyes and push IL out on
the table with rake. The goa Vi
chance, being blind, naturally likes
blind people. Which also stands 10 rea-
son. does it not? There you have the
whole philosophy Of roulette.
OF course there are people VINO ten
YOU that you have no right to Degin TO
gamble until, at least, you kno" lae
order of the numbers, both on the
wheel and the table, by heart. other-
wise how can you tell the voisins-
the neighboring numbers-to the las1
throw but one, so that you can Kho"
whore the ball is coming back to!
Also you can buy elaborate ana IN
fallible systems, which makes no men
tion of fat men or thin men, at MY
sbons in Monte Carlo. For Ior'y
francs you can buy a system "ile"
tells you how, on capital OF t=o' you
can make-"infallibly" a day'
There is another, much solo, "i,lcii
offers you 1000 chances to WIN against
one chance to lose.
Casino Always Wins.
Others guarantee-well, nearly guar no
antee-a winning Of from 5oo to l'ooo
f-ancs a day, and there are any guam
ti+v of systems under which losses
orc "impossible." Yet, in spite OF IL
oil the Casino is one of the most sue
cessful business institutions in Europe
and will doubtless weather even tne
difficulties of the exchange anu tue
rise in the cost of living.
Three days ago there man won, at
one of the tables, $1,000 francs at
single coup. The rules, 1t should De
explained, forbid a larger stake than
will produce more than 6'ooo francs
Mt a single bet. But, having stakeo
tho limit on an individual number,
Won can also lay bets-each to the
linton the various combinations OF
that number as well as on the color,
the high or low, odd or even, the
"dozen"-whether the first, second or
third of thirty-six numbers-and 50
forth.
am told, but l have not calculated
II. that 1t is thus possible to win over
5000 francs on a single turn OF the
wheel. But $1,000 is good enough ana
tho friend who had seen it and told me
added: "And that loss of 5dooo VIII
be worth 10000 TO the house." he
probably underestimated 1t.
As II was three days ago, the man
who won the money has probably lost
q again by now and in any case the
fame of 1t has gone far abroad ana
brought any number of new gamblers
tn the table. 1t is by such adVertlse-
ments that the Casino thrives.
They Keep at It.
Almost every year new books telling
Won how to win at Monte Carlo are
unfinished. Every year series OF charm'
inc articles are written for one journal
or another Analysing various "sys-
tams" one presumes that the writer's
roceive no payment from the Casino
for their labor. But how handsomely
4 could afford to pay them! There is
surely no money making institution
4, the world which gets so much and
snch admirable free advertisement as
che societe DIES Bains de Mer (as the
proprietary organization Is called) OF
Monte Carlo. - a. :,
The one cardinal and dominant fact
"a TINT there Is always one extra