Las Vegas roulette wheel reportedly hits 19 seven straight times

[Hum]

A photo taken by a professional gambler in Las Vegas purports to show a roulette wheel hitting the number 19 seven times in a row. And as the Las Vegas Sun notes, the odds of striking such a remarkable set are an astounding 3 billion to 1.

The sequence reportedly occurred at 8:32 p.m. on Monday at the Rio Casino when professional poker player Jeff Romano captured the image on his phone's camera and uploaded it to Twitter. In a subsequent tweet, Romano responded to inquiring readers by noting he was "just passing by" the roulette table when he spotted the numbers.

After hitting 19 for the seventh time in a row, the wheel landed on the number 15 for the eighth spin. But the wheel then hit 19 one more time on its ninth spin.

Caesars Entertainment tells the Sun that it was unaware of the alleged string of numbers until contacted by the paper.

The paper has not yet been able to verify the accuracy of the event, including questions about whether it could have occurred if the roulette wheel was not properly aligned. But if true, the Sun notes this would be "one of the rarest documented roulette runs in the city's history."

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[sparkymcg]

Could of been a computer glitch 8 19s and 4 20s on that board

[McKay]

What are the odds if the spinner is grabbing from the same spot and exerting the same force each time?

[Growled Member]

Sounds like someone was cheating. Don't they use magnets or something or other?

[BoyBoppins]

What are the odds if the spinner is grabbing from the same spot and exerting the same force each time?

They put the roulette wheel in motion and then spin the ball so it doesnt really matter.

[Jeston Veteran]

Sounds like the wheel was unbalanced. Our gaming agents get alarmed if one of our dealers manages to hit a number 4 times out of 16 (the amount displayed on the board) :rolleyes:

Seriously though, that should never happen and they definitely need to (and likely did) rebalance the wheel.

What strikes me as odd is that if the wheel was so unbalanced, how did it manage to hit 20 so many times just before since it is almost straight across the wheel...

What are the odds if the spinner is grabbing from the same spot and exerting the same force each time?

Shouldn't matter as the wheel is constantly slowing down, not to mention a "good" dealer will vary the spin of both the wheel and the ball every spin.

Sounds like someone was cheating. Don't they use magnets or something or other?

Magnets won't do anything, the ball is not metal.

They put the roulette wheel in motion and then spin the ball so it doesnt really matter.

The wheel is always in motion and never stops (at least in American games) until the game is closed, so it kind of does matter.

[Hum]

I hope someone was on the 7 spin parley :D

[Buttus]

i wonder how much the casino lost on that! i would have put money on 19 after i saw it hit 2 or 3 times, put $20 on 19 each time, you'd be sitting pretty!