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Heavy Losses at Monte Carlo Prove
| Big Gard for AdvertAsans-Many
| Systems Offered tha Gullible
Yet Casino Continues
70 Make Profit

Times, and that is tnlS: WuAA = ~
man is spinning the wheel betNpn tue
high numbers; when it is THIN man
bet on the low. 1t stands to reason
does it not?-that small man csttt-
not throw big numbers. Another gC>Od
plan is to. put your stake in front NJ
you, shut your eyes and push it out oia
the table with q rake. The god 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 neighboring numbers-to the last
throw but one, SO that you can know
where the ball is coming back to? IA
Also you can buy elaborate and In
faAible systems, which makes no men
tion Of fat men or thin men, at fifty
shops in Monte Carlo. For forty
francs you can buy system which
tells you how, on a capital Of EGO, you
can -"infallibly"- a 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 500 to LOU
francs a day, and there are 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 In Europe,
and will doubtless weather even the
difficulties of the exchange and the
rise in the cost Of living.
Three days ago there man won, at
one of the tables, $1,000 francs at a
single coup. The rules, it should be
explained, forbid larger stake than
will produce more than 5000 francs
at single bet. But, having staked
the limit on an Individual number,
you can also lay bets each to the
limit--o1 the various combinations of
that number as we'll as on the "color,'
the high Or low, odd or even, the
CONGRATULATIONS the first, second or
third Of thirty-six numbers-and SO
forth.
am told, but have not calculated
it, that it is thus possible to win. over
$4,000 francs on single turn Of the
wheel. But $4,000 is good enough and
the friend who had seen it and told me
added: "And that loss of $1,000 will
be worth 10000 to the house." He
probably underestimate it.
AS it was three days ago, the man
who won the money has probably lost
it 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. It is by such advertise
ments that the Casino thrives.
@ They Keep at 1t.
Almost every year new books telling
you how to win at Monte Carlo are
published. Every year series Of charm
ing articles are written for one journa
or another Analysing various "sys-
TENS" One presunes that the writer!
receive no payment from the Casino
for their labor. But how handsomely
1t could afford to pay them! There Il
surely no money making institution
in the world which gets so much an(
such admirable free advertisement a!
the Societe des Bains de Mer Gas til,
proprietary organization is called) q
Monte Carlo.
The one cardinal and dominant fac
is that there Is always one extra
chance in 81 against the bettor. Thu
odds are 10 to IL in favor Of the house
With absolutely even luck, In every 81
bets you will lose one more than vol
with win. The odds, are all calculated
on the basis Of the thirty-six number
on tie table, and the thirty-seventl
number Zero is the perquistte of tn,
establishment. With this qualification
the game Is absolutely fair.
Few sane men, think, suspect til.
Casino of cheating. 1t does not neet
10. That thirty-seventh chance-whicl
q no chance, but certainty-is suf
ficient. 1t operates inevitably; as re
morselessly as "the blind Fury will
the abhorred shears" does at the ent
Of the life of each Of us.
The tables in the various sales II
the Casino and the Sporting club d,
not all run for the same hours. Ais
some Of them are for trente ct guar
ante @and not for roulette. But be
lievegit is fair to say that the result
lis about equivalent to twenty-on
tables at roulette running for tel
hours day. At all events the rougl
calculation will suffice.
How II Figures Out
Now, the time taken by each turn o
the wheel, with the necessary settle
ments, Is about three minutes; or |
has been when have timed it in thes
last days. That is to say that on on
or othet of the 81 tables seven coup
are being cleaned up every minute
The house wins one bet in every 80
and 1T is. again, not unfair to recko
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