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Gonzalo García-Pelayo: im roulette system

A record producer, a family weh write dung numba, an a Supreme Court weh tell di casino fi mind it own wheel dem.

Short ansa

Gonzalo García-Pelayo (born 1947), a Spanish record producer an film director, did lead a family team weh, fram late 1991, write dung bout 5,000 spin fi evry wheel at Casino Gran Madrid an bet pon di pocket dem weh did run ahead. Im seh di winnins come to 200 to 250 million peseta across nuff casino. Di casino ban di family, di government overrule di ban, an inna 2004 di Supreme Court side wid di playa dem.

born
25 June 1947, Madrid
play roulette
late 1991 till 1994
sample
bout 5,000 spin fi evry wheel
las ruling
Supreme Court, 11 June 2004

Bifo di casino

Gonzalo García-Pelayo born inna Madrid pon 25 June 1947 an grow up inna Andalusia, inna Jerez an Seville. Im direct film dem, like Manuela (1976) an Vivir en Sevilla (1978), an inna 1974 im start di record label Gong, weh im produce Triana, Lole y Manuel an María Jiménez. By im own count im produce bout 150 record. Im nuh mathematician, nuh care wah some newspaper did write: im tell di business paper Cinco Días inna 2004 seh im only have school maths an one or two book pon probabilitymathsProbabilityDi chance fi a result, fram 0 to 1 or 0% to 100%. One numba: 1/37 = 2.70%.Read di whole ting →. Im seh di idea fi study roulette come to im afta im lose at blackjack.

Di team

Di Pelayo family roulette system did need nuff people, an di playa dem did a im family. Im own site name im son Iván, im daughter Vanessa an im nephew dem Christian an Marcos; odda account add di nephew dem Guillermo an Jaime. Di casino ban cover six people, an as im tell it lata, di group grow to twelve, wid more family an a few close fren. Dem call demself di flotilla.

Dem share up di work. Some siddung at a wheel an write dung di numba dem; wen dem done, dem lef an new face come in fi bet, suh di casino wouldn’t link di two. Im hardly eva put dung a bet imself. Odda one play an phone im wid di result. Lata dem use fren weh di casino dem neva know, an dem call dem submarine.

Di people weh write dung numba lef as fresh face come in fi bet, suh di casino cyaan link dem.

Di method, inna im own word

Di Gonzalo García-Pelayo roulette system start fram dis: nuh machine perfect. If Swiss watch an NASA rocket nuh perfect, a roulette wheel nuh perfect neida, an some pocketgearPocketOne a di 37 compartment wid numba pon di rotor. Nex name: slot, cup.Read di whole ting → mus win a likkle more often dan di res. Fus im did suspec how di croupierpeople demCroupierDi dealer at a roulette table.Read di whole ting → throw di ball; di numba dem show seh a di wheel cause it.

Dem write dung evry wheel fi bout 5,000 spin bifo anybaddy bet pon it (Iván seh 6,000), an dat tek roun fifteen day, six to eight hour a day. Di people weh a write dung di numba dem also learn di wheel mark dem, dung to di smallest scratch, suh dem coulda find it again if di casino move it.

Im count inna “positive”. A numba weh come up one time inna 36 spin break even at 35 to 1, suh it nuh score nutten; evry hit ova dat a one positive. Den im compare a wheel positive dem wid wah fair wheel dem produce inna a computer simulation, wid a program im write imself. As one smaddy weh review di family book report it, it have two limit: one weh 95% a di simulate fair wheel dem stay unda, an a hard limit weh 99.95% stay unda. A wheel weh pass di hard limit, to im, a bias wheellabBias wheelA wheel weh have physical defect weh mek some pocket more likely dan 1/37. It rare, an yuh can only find it out wid thousands a spin weh yuh write dung.Read di whole ting → fi true.

By im figure, a bias wheel did have between nine an twelve numba a run ahead. Di bes pocket im eva find win one time inna 28 spin, anyting betta dan one time inna 35 did worth a bet, an di mix give a advantage a bout 6%. All a dese numba a fi im; nuh casino or regulator neva publish none.

a pocket win one time innawah a straight up pon it worthhow im describe it
42 spin−14.3%di worse pocket im find
37 spin−2.70%a pocket weh fair
36 spin0%break even: nuh positive
35 spin+2.9%worth a bet
28 spin+28.6%di bes pocket im find
Single-zero wheel, 35 to 1. Di value a 36 divide by di numba a spin, minus 1.

Wah mek 5,000 spin, an wah mek di whole wheel

Inna 5,000 spin a fair pocket come up bout 135 time, give or tek 11. A pocket weh really win one time inna 28 come up bout 179 time, nearly four a dem “give or tek” ahead; luck nuh do dat, an di pocket clearly have fault.

A pocket weh win one time inna 33 a different story. It woulda earn a bettor 9%, an inna 5,000 spin it come up bout 152 time, only one an a half “give or tek” ahead. Pon a perfectly fair wheel, two or tree a di 37 pocket wi deh dat far ahead by luck alone. Suh fi pick di numba weh lead afta 5,000 spin nuh enough. Yuh haffi test di whole wheel gainst wah fair wheel dem do, an a dat di simulate limit dem deh fah, an a dat di chi-square testlabChi-square testStatistical test weh compare di hit dem yuh see inna evry pocket wid di n/37 yuh fi expec. Dem use it fi judge if a wheel bias.Read di whole ting → do pon paper.

Ow big di sample size fi be

Di money

Di family a di only source fi di winnins, an di figure dem change up. Di overall total a di steadiest: between 200 an 250 million peseta fram all di casino dem, weh a 1.2 to 1.5 million euro. Fi Casino Gran Madrid alone, different account give anyting fram 70 million peseta to more dan a million euro. Di casino tell a 2000 report seh it nuh have nuh record a di sum. Im seh dem start wid bout 1,800 euro an one time lose 60,000 euro inna one day.

Di family play odda place too, as im tell it: Barcelona, Vienna, Amsterdam, Copenhagen. Las Vegas did a di las try an it pay poorly, cause a di second zeropon di wheelZeroDi one green pocket weh no even-money, dozen or column bet nuh cover; a weh di house edge come fram. Nex name: single zero, 0.Read di whole ting →. Wid 38 pocket, a pocket haffi have dat much more fault bifo a 35 to 1 payoutmoney mattaPayoutWah a bet weh win gi yuh back, weh dem quote as “X to 1” on top a di stake weh come back.Read di whole ting → show a profit.

American roulette: di wheel an di rule dem

Wah di casino do

Casino Gran Madrid deh a Torrelodones, outside di city, an Spanish newspaper dem often jus call it di Casino de Madrid. As di family tell it, fus it move di wheel dem an change part a dem, suh dem haffi study evry one again. Den it ban di playa dem, unda di article a di Spanish casino regulation weh mek a casino turn back people weh it expec fi commit irregularity at di game dem. A 2000 report seh di casino case did seh di group spen a long time a work out how often evry result come up, use a computer program fi predict result, an suh play wid a advantage. It did complain too seh odda playa copy dem bet.

Odda casino get warning. Di family seh dem get ask fi lef inna Vienna afta a winnin night, an inna 2012 im seh dem still ban inna France an Denmark.

Cheatin inna roulette

Ten year inna court

Di casino neva sue di family. Di family complain bout di ban to di government office inna Madrid, weh rule seh it improper, an a di casino weh go a court, gainst di government decision.

Fram di fus note dem to di las ruling
late 1991

Di family start write dung wheel dem at Casino Gran Madrid.

1992

Dem win steady. Durin di Barcelona Olympics one team play inna Madrid an anodda one inna Barcelona.

by 1994

Di casino ban six a dem.

11 August 1994

Di government office inna Madrid declare di ban improper. Di casino go a court.

27 March 2000

Di High Court of Justice of Madrid throw out di casino challenge.

11 June 2004

Di Supreme Court turn dung di casino appeal.

2012

Di feature film The Pelayos come out inna Spain.

Wah di Supreme Court seh

Di court rule seh wah di playa dem do neva a irregularity inna di sense a di regulation dem, suh di casino neva have nuh ground fi keep dem out. Inna it own word, di playa dem neva do nutten more dan use dem brain an apply computer technique, an dem play did res pon jus a watch result weh repeat, nuh pon a bruk di rule dem. It put di cause inna di wheel dem: very likkle flaw inna how dem build or set dem, weh yuh cyaan see wid yuh naked yeye.

It seh too wah a casino can do instead. Di lawful defence nuh fi throw out or ban di playa dem, but fi change weh di wheel dem stand, swap dem part or improve dem design.

Di ruling narrower dan how people often mek it sound. It apply one article a Spain casino regulation to one ban. It nuh seh evry casino evrywhere mus let in a playa weh find a bias wheel.

Move di wheel dem an swap dem part: di lawful defence di court describe.

Afta roulette

Im learn poker inna di United States an open a Texas hold’em club inna Madrid inna 1996; El Mundo report inna 2001 seh Carlos Mortensen, world champion dat year, did learn di game deh. By 2004 im did a live off online poker, an lata im turn to sports bettin. Wid Iván im write La fabulosa historia de los Pelayos (2003). Di History Channel tell di story inna it series Breaking Vegas, an Eduard Cortés film it as The Pelayos (2012). Im go back to directin film di same year.

Wah nobaddy prove yet

Tree ting weh people often seh bout di Pelayos nuh have nuh source outside di family, or nuh source at all. Im seh a English maker build a special wheel gainst dem, a “anti-Pelayo roulette”; nuh maker or casino neva confirm it. Nutten nuh show seh casino dem all ova Europe change how dem maintain dem wheel cause a dis one family. An wi couldn’t check di table dem a limit inna di book fi dis page, suh wi only describe dem yah di way one reviewer describe dem.

Question dem

Di casino did sue di Pelayos?

No. Di casino ban dem, di government overrule di ban, an di casino tek di government to court. It lose inna 2000 an again inna di Supreme Court inna 2004.

Di court mek it legal fi play a bias wheel?

It rule seh fi watch a wheel an bet pon wah it show nuh a irregularity unda Spain casino regulation, suh dis ban did improper. It neva decide nutten fi odda country.

Di method still work?

Im seh inna 2004 seh it did a return 2.7% by den, weh one time it did reach 6%, an dat di people im know weh try it inna Madrid do it bad an lose.

Sumting fi laugh

Di court advice to di casino: fix di wheel, nuh di guest list.

Di court advice to di casino: fix di wheel, nuh di guest list.

Source dem

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