These tiny defects - 'chips, dents, scratches, unlevel surfaces - might cause certain wheels to land on certain numbers more frequently than randomicity prescribed.'

According to this great story in The Hustle, Jarecki found that roulette wheels, like all other mechanical devices, demonstrated wear and tear after a period of time. and then painstakingly working at exploiting it. Only 13.5% of gamblers actually wind up winning at the roulette wheel, according to Maverick's research.īy noticing a flaw. If person is making $5 bets on every spin of the wheel and the wheel spins 50 times an hour, they'll wind up losing 5% of their money over four hours. Maverick reports that a casino wins about $50,000 for every $1 million played, and the house winnings get bigger the longer the player participates. The actual odds of winning are thus 37 to one, 38 to one, or 39 to one, not 36 to one.' 'However, roulette wheels also have a zero, and sometimes they have a double zero and even a triple zero. 'A roulette wheel is numbered from one to 36, so you might think this puts the odds for winning a single number bet at 36 to one,' Maverick writes. Maverick reports in Investopedia, the house has a 5.26 % edge on an American roulette wheel, a percentage that's much higher than other games like blackjack. The odds of winning at a casino are not very good at all.