Beating Roulette With Computers & Lasers

MeerCat writes "The BBC are reporting that a group of gamblers who won more than £1m at the Ritz Casino by using laser technology have been told by police they can keep their winnings. A laser scanner linked to a computer was allegedly used to gauge numbers likely to come up on the roulette wheel. Of course this could be Labour spin to try and get people excited about the idea of cheating at mega casinos"

Of course no law was broken!

[bigtallmofo]

Unless they were using a laser to shoot the ball into the number they wanted, there's nothing at all illegal about this in the U.S., and I'm heartened to read the U.K. either.

"No more bets... And the number is 7... ZAP! I mean 19... ZAP! I mean 22... ZAP! I mean 13... ZAP! I mean 3... The winner is 3! You win again."

Easy fix

[Anonymous Coward]

Just use hermit crabs as roulette balls.

Woohoo!

Crab skitters unpredictable over to another number....

Doh!

Re:Didn't break the law!

[boldi]

But until they rewrite the rules, are we allowed to take the lab equipment (with trypods, industrial laser sources, generators and the home-brew linux-cluster for calculations) to a casino with the
white coat stuff and funny glasses?

Re:Easy fix

[The Ultimate Fartkno]

Yeah, but then you have the problem of the "ball" jumping up and biting into some poor guy's head. The next thing you know you've got a casino full of zombies running around and eating the cocktail waitresses - and have you ever tried to bludgeon a zombie with a croupier's rake? It's no crowbar, that's for damned sure.

Oh... wait.

"Hermit" crab?

Never mind...

Now if only ....

[bizitch]

they would let me keep my slot machine winnings I got with that HERF gun ....

Re:Previous Article

[dont_think_twice]

at least slashdot kept up on a story for once.

yea, like that SCO story. slashdot really dropped the ball on that one.

Spin

[6Yankee]

Of course this could be Labour spin...

Spin. Roulette. Heh.

Warning!!!

[failedlogic]

Do not try this (using laser pointers that is... ) with the Russian "variety" of Roulette. While its sure to improve your aim and your chances of "winning" you might find yourself losing out on life a bit!

Re:Getting banned

[Deanasc]

That was the old MIT team that got caught. They're not on to the new team yet.

Re:Previous Article

[Anonymous Coward]

at least slashdot kept up on a story for once.

What are you talking about? I usually read the same story 5, 6 times a day on slashdot... and that's BEFORE any new information comes out!