Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-07-16
Fat Man, Big Numbers Win;
Thin Men, Small Numbers,
Is One System.
LNEN CASINO
Heavy Losses at Monte carfo@Prove
Biz Gard for Advertising-Many
Systems offered the GullibIe
Yet Casino Continues
to Make Profit.

London.-There Is one infaliiDle way
of winning money at Monte Carlo,
writes a correspondent of the london
Times, and that is this: When a fat
man is spinning the wheel bet on the
high numbers; when it is q hin man
bet on the low. 1t stands to reason
does 1t not?-that a small man can
not throw big numbers. Another good
plan is to put your stake in front OF
you, shut your eyes and push 1t out on
the table with a rake. The goa OF
chance, being blind, naturally likes
blind people. Which also stands to rea-
son, does 1t not? There you have the
whole philosophy of roulette.
OF course there are people who tell
you that you have no right to begin to
gamble until, at least, you know the
order. Of the numbers, both ON the
wheel and the table, by heart. Other
wise, how can you tell the voislns-
the neighboring ~numbers-to the last
throw but one, so that you cal know
where the ball Is coming back to!
Also you can buy elaborate and In
fallible systems, which makes no men
ton Of fat men or thin men, at fifty
shops In Monte Carlo. For forty
francs you can buy a system which
tells you how, on a capital of EGO, you
can make-"infallibly'--f1O a day.
There Ia another, much sold, which
offers you 1000 chances to win against
one chance to lose.
Casino Always Wins.
Others guarantee-well, nearly guar
nntee-a winning Of from 5W to l,Ooo
francs a day, and there r any guam
tity Of systems under which losses"
are impossible" Yet, In spite Of 1t
all the Casino is one Of the most sue
cessful business institutions la Europe,
and will doubtless weather even the
difficulties Of the exchange and the
rise In the cost Of living.
Three days ago there a man won, at
one Of the tables, $1,000 francs at a
single coup. The rules, 1t should be
explained, forbid a larger stake than
will produce more than 5000 francs
at a single bet. But, having staked
the limit on an individual number,
you can also Nay bets-each to the
limit--on the various combinations OF
that number as well as on the color"
the high or low, odd or even, the
Decentralization the first, second or
third of thirty-six numbers-and so
forth.
/ am told, but I have not calculated
it, that 1t is thus possible to win over
$4,000 francs on a single turn Of the
wheel. But $4,000 is good enough and
the friend who had seen 1t and told me
added: "And that loss Of $1,000 will
be worth 10000 to the house." He
probably underestimated 1t.
AS 1t was three days ago, the man
who won the money has probably lost
1t again by now and in any case the
fame of it has gone far abroad and
brought any number Of new gamblers
to the table. 1t is by such advertise
ments that the Casino thrives.
They Keep at II.
Almost every year new books telling
you how 10 win at Monte Carlo are
published. Every year series of charm
ing articles are written for n journal
or another analysing various "sys-
tens" One presumes that the writer's
receive no payment from the Casino
for their labor. But how handsomely
1t could afford to pay them There is
surely no money making institution
In the world which gets so much and
such admirable free advertisement as
the Societe des Bains de Mer (as the
proprietary organization is called Of
Monte Carlo.
The one cardinal and dominant fact
b that there Is always one extra