The Billy Walters syndicate during different periods from 1986 to 1989 won over $4,400,000 in Atlantic City and $400,000 in Las Vegas!
Obviously, the rewards of finding and exploiting a balanced wheel can be rather extraordinary. But how difficult is it to find such a wheel?
The only tried and proven legal way of accomplishing this is to clock, that is, record the numbers of a roulette wheel as they are spun and analyze them, much as Jaggers did in 1873.
Obviously, a handheld computer would be very helpful, but such devices are banned in most casinos, and use of a computer or similar device in a casino in Nevada may even earn you jail time.
So the only practical way of identifying a potentially biased wheel is to record and analyze the results of spins.
A significant amount of mathematical analysis has been done in determining the minimum number of spins which should be tallied in order to determine if a wheel is truly biased. To be reasonably sure that a wheel is biased you should record a minimum of 800 spins. In the United States, with an average number of spins of 100 an hour, this would take eight hours. At the slower European rate of 40 an hour, accumulating a sample of 800 spins would take twenty hours.
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