Richard Muller, professor of Physics at UC Berkeley explained how a colleague managed to beat the house at its own game: How he did it may have been explained just four short decades later, in a Q&A on Quora, asking the simple question “What do physicists know that let them win at casinos?” It turns out the machine was a touch too effective, as the upshot was that the casinos all banned him – not because they could prove he was cheating, but because he was significantly beating the odds, and that’s reason enough in Vegas. Doyne Farmer built a machine that would help him win at roulette. The third option is the safest – until you get kicked out – use physics to stack the odds in your favour and beat the house.Ī short history lesson: back in the 1970s, a mathematician named J. Option two is far weaker odds, but far greater rewards, where you bet on a specific number, where your odds are 38-1 against. Option one is that you can play it safe and bet exclusively on red or black, which gives you odds of slightly below a 50/50 chance of winning any given roll (because as well as the 36 black and red segments, there are two greens).
