Joseph Jagger – A Roulette-Playing Legend
By alex. Filed in Roulet |
Joseph Jagger was a famous roulette player who was born in 1830 and was a native of Yorkshire, England. But before he found his way to the casinos, Jagger was a cotton factory engineer. Because of his mathematical background, Jagger believed there to be a few roulette wheels that were not totally random, resulting in a greater frequency of some number appearances.
Monte Carlo’s Beaux-Arts Casino
Jagger decided to hire six people to scrutinize the six roulette wheels of Monte Carlo’s Beaux-Arts Casino. From the notes recorded by these people, Jagger discovered that one of the casino’s wheels leaned toward nine particular numbers.
The First Three Days
Armed with his newly-found knowledge of these numbers’ appearances, Jagger decided to exploit the tendencies of this particularly flawed wheel. In his first three days of playing, he won $120,000, which is equivalent to today’s $6 million.
The Fourth Day
On day four, Jagger came to the casino unaware that the casino had switched out their roulette wheels in order to thwart the player who was costing them tons of money. Because of this switch, Jagger was losing money until he noticed he was not playing on the biased roulette wheel. Once he found that wheel, Jagger went on a 2-day roulette playing spree.
The Last Two Days
Now that the casino was losing even more money, they decided to take their defensive attempts one step further. Instead of changing the location of their roulette wheels, the Beaux-Arts decided to relocate the metal dividers sitting between the wheel’s numbers in order to make the wheel biased to an entirely different group of numbers. After two days of playing, Jagger finally caught on and decided to get out of the casino while “the getting was good.” Even though he lost money on his final two days, Jagger still came out ahead with today’s equivalent of $3 million.
