Literature and Chronicles reported examples of some famous pioneers who successfully exploited more or less legitimate methods to get an advantage against the house and hence win large sums at casinos. Below we list the best known cases in which the authors have admitted their approach or others (the latest) in which authors have been discovered by the casino managers and legal disputes have arisen. Surely there are dozens of players who have over the years beat the roulette wheel in one session or systematically. Professionals who have had the good fortune to never be discovered stopped in time, contenting himself with the prize won without set foot in a casino.
Joseph Jaggers (1873) - He took advantage of the flaws of a casino roulette Beaux-Arts in Monte Carlo
William Darnborough (1904) - Perhaps the first to act systematically considering the area of drop the ball. It seems that this young American in Monaco in a few wins they have scored for some 500,000 dollars a roulette. Unlike many other famous winners who were making their booty in a few sessions, making playing conditions unique or special, William was able to win with some regularity.
Claude E. Shannon and Edward O. Thorpe (1961) - With a microcomputer in a package of cigarettes have successfully passed a test in Las Vegas
Norman Leigh (1966) - He scared the casino in Nice with his group of twelve players who played the same system
Richard Jarecki (1969) - He won by exploiting the broken wheel of San Remo and Monte Carlo has won
The Eudaemons (1978) - A group of physics students in California has created a small computer to hide in a shoe
Scott Lang (1983) - has published a book that teaches a way to win using a stopwatch
Billy Walters (1989) - professional golfer who has defied a casino in Atlantic City
Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo (1990) - He won more than 1 million dollar at Casino Madrid exploiting flaws Roulette
Fraud at Casino Velden (2003) - A group of swindlers has won € 700,000 using a remotely operated magnet
Swindling the Ritz in London (2004) - Using mobile phones with a group of three laser has won more than 1 million pounds. The group has donated 1 and a half million, the casino has paid 500 thousand and made a check for the rest. Suspicious of a payout so high in a short time have seen the records and noticed their strange behaviour Scotland Yard have warned that the group has tracked down and seized in their hotel room, the computer and mobile phones used at the casino.
The group however did not suffer any criminal prosecution, because even in this case, as the Spaniard Garcia-Pelayo, did not interfere with the normal development of the game.