Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-08-06
Fat Man, Big Numbers Win;
Thin Men, Small Numbers,
Is One System.
KILLINGS" L|VEN CASINO
Heavy Losses at Monte Carlo Prove
Bio Gard for Advertising-Many
Systems offered the Gullible
Yet Casino Continues
to Make Profit.


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 thin man
bet on the low 1t stands to reason
does If not?-that small man can
not throw big numbers. Another good
plan is to put your stake in front VI
you, shut your eyes and push it out ON
the table with rake. The goa OF
chance, being blind, naturally likes
blind people. Which also stands to rea-
son, does it 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 voiSins-
the neighb0ring numberS-to the last
throw but one, so that YOU can Know
where the ball is coming back to?
Also you can buy elaborate and in
IAIllDIt SNSleIIlSy NIItll NV h'C''
ton of fat men or thin men, ut fifty
shops in Monte Carlo. For forty
francs you can buy system which
tells you how, on capital of t20, you
can "infallibly' day.
There is another, much sold, which
offers you 1000 chances to win against
one chance to lose.
Casino Always Wins.
Others guarantee-well, nearly guar
antee-a winning of from 800 to l0OW
francs a day, and there are any guam
tity of systems under which losses"
are "impossible." Yet, in spite of it
all the Casino is one of the most sue
cesSful business institutions in 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, $4,000 francs at
single coup. The rules, it should he
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 lay bets--each to the
linton the various combinations OIL
that number as well as on the color
the high or low, odd or even, the
Observation-Disclosures the first, second or
third of thrty-siX numberS-and so
forth.
| am told but | have not calculated
it, that it is thus possible to win over
10000 francs on Il single turn OF the
wheel. But $1,000 is good enough and
the friend who had seen it and told me
added: "Anl that loss of $1,000 will
be wortl. $40, 500 to the house He
probably undcrcstimated it.
As it was three days ago, the man
who won tbc money has probably LOST
it again by now and in any case the
fame OF it has gone far abroad ana
brought any number of new gamblers
to the table. 1t is by such advertise
ments that :he Casino thrives.
They Keep at 1t.
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 One journal
or another aiaIyZing various "sys-
tens" one preSumcS that the writer's
receive no payment from the Casino
for their labor But how handsomely
it 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 dies Bains de Mer Gas the
proprietary organization is called) of
Monte Carlo.
The one cardinal and dominant fact
is that there is always one extra
chance in 81 against the bettOr The
odds are 10 to Is in favor of the house.
With absolutely even luck, in every 81
bets you will lose one more than you
will win The odds are all calculated
on the basis of the thirty-six numbers
on the table, and the thirty-seventh
number (zero) is the perquisite of the
establishment. With this qualification
the game is absolutely fair.
Few sane men, ] think, suspect the
Casino of cheating. 1t does not need
to. That thirty-seventh chance-which
is no chance, but certainty-is suf-
ficient. 1t operates inevitably; as re-
mOrselessly as 1.-The blind Fury with
the ahhorred shears" does at the end
of the life of each of us.
The tables in the various SALES in
the Casino and the Sporting club do
not all run for the same hours. Also
some of them are for trente ct quar-
ante and not for roulette. But | be-
lieve 1t is fair to say that the result
is about equivalent to twenty-one
tables at roulette running for ten
hours day. At all events the rough
calculation will suffice.
How 1t Figures Out.
Now, the time taken by each turn of
the wheel, with the necessary settle
ments, is about three minutes; or it
has been when have timed it In these