Roulette Dealer Cheats

Most people go into roulette games thinking that they’re only dealing with the advertised house edge. For example, if you’re playing European roulette, every number is supposed to have a 1 in 37 chance of coming up on the wheel, and you should be facing a 2.63% house edge. However, some players are convinced that they’re up against an even bigger house edge because dealers can affect profits through various ways. Keeping this chilling thought in mind, you might think twice about playing casino roulette after looking at these fabled roulette dealer cheats.

The most-discussed method that dealers supposedly use to increase the house edge is spinning the wheel in a certain manner. People who believe in this casino trick say some dealers are skilled enough to spin the wheel in a manner that avoids sections with the most/highest bets (a.k.a. section shooting). For example, if you were the only person playing and you made a single number bet on 7, the dealer would then spin the wheel hard or soft (depending on their preference) to avoid the area with 7. Now section shooting might sound far-fetched because of the high degree of skill involved. However, it’s more reasonable when you consider that some dealers have spun the wheel millions of times.

If a casino believes that a wheel bias master is in their midst, they will switch wheels around at night to throw the player off – or get rid of the wheel altogether. Now this isn’t necessarily a dealer trick, but they will alert the casino when the same person keeps winning money night after night. And when this happens, the casino will switch wheels around so that the suspected player who’s found a biased wheel will be confused. Seeing as how most roulette wheels today are well-designed, you don’t see this as much, but it still happens from time-to-time.

Before casino gaming became more regulated, some establishments were accused of installing magnets on their wheel to direct the ball to one section or another. This whole concept revolves around a ball with a metal core being moved to the desired section by special switches that only the dealer can operate. Depending on what switch is activated, the ball will gravitate towards a specific section. Fortunately, this method is virtually extinct today since nobody wants to lose their casino license through something as silly as this.

Some people are under the impression that dealers change their attitude when players start winning in roulette. For example, they’ll put some pressure on players to make bets faster, act mean towards winners, and give players less time in between spins. The idea here is to throw winning players off so they aren’t able to think clearly and execute their betting strategy. However, there could be a number of other factors affecting a dealer’s attitude, so this isn’t necessarily some trick designed to mess with winners. Furthermore, they could just be mad that nobody is tipping them!

In any case, those who fear that they might be cheated by casino roulette dealers can always opt for online roulette, where the software does the dealing.