Suckout King
09-20-2006, 05:32 PM
I must confess I have not been following this to closely but it seems that someone who has had some success with utilising electronic equipment to help predict outcomes of the roulette wheel is starting selling them in the UK at arround 1000£ a pop.
Anyone interested in this might want to search The Guardian as it was in a recent issue of that paper that i read about this recent fact.
These machines are nothing new. The obvious solution in an ideal world would be to create wheels that had no dissernable bias if they do truely work.
The interesting thing about this though as far as I am concerned is the legal position. In say US casinos there are laws against using electronic devices but in the UK there do not appear to be.
It seems odd that with all the recent retread of casino laws and gambling in the UK this has not been addressed. A "biased" table doesnt increase the house edge and exploiting it seems rather unfair in my view.
There seem to be quite a few aspects of gambling that are not being given the treatment that is merited.
Another area that seems to neglected is the provision to play "games of chance" which can include pretty much any game with an element of luck in it so possibly could include 10 pin bowling and snooker and certainly include tournament poker and duplicate bridge.
In terms of the ammendments to the 68 act 4£ would be the most you could charge as entry in an event (they might have been some inconsequential ammendment in the last 2 years but nothing significant)
This means that if there was a bridge tournament with 10£ entry (as there would be in a congress) or if there were two tournaments with a 4£ entry then this would be breaking the rules.
Its all about where you draw the line but to me a 10£ buy in (no rebuys) poker tournament is not a social ill that people people should not be able to partake in legally
Anyone interested in this might want to search The Guardian as it was in a recent issue of that paper that i read about this recent fact.
These machines are nothing new. The obvious solution in an ideal world would be to create wheels that had no dissernable bias if they do truely work.
The interesting thing about this though as far as I am concerned is the legal position. In say US casinos there are laws against using electronic devices but in the UK there do not appear to be.
It seems odd that with all the recent retread of casino laws and gambling in the UK this has not been addressed. A "biased" table doesnt increase the house edge and exploiting it seems rather unfair in my view.
There seem to be quite a few aspects of gambling that are not being given the treatment that is merited.
Another area that seems to neglected is the provision to play "games of chance" which can include pretty much any game with an element of luck in it so possibly could include 10 pin bowling and snooker and certainly include tournament poker and duplicate bridge.
In terms of the ammendments to the 68 act 4£ would be the most you could charge as entry in an event (they might have been some inconsequential ammendment in the last 2 years but nothing significant)
This means that if there was a bridge tournament with 10£ entry (as there would be in a congress) or if there were two tournaments with a 4£ entry then this would be breaking the rules.
Its all about where you draw the line but to me a 10£ buy in (no rebuys) poker tournament is not a social ill that people people should not be able to partake in legally