Some people win on roulette.
See newspaper article below.

Madrid
June 24, 2004


Spain's Supreme Court has ruled against a casino that sought to bar a fabulously successful roulette player who used a number-crunching system to predict where the ball would land.

Ending 10 years of litigation, the court ruled that Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo, a mathematician and record producer, had not cheated and that the Casino de Madrid could not deny him entry.

Working with a group of colleagues, Pelayo's trick was to write down the winning numbers of myriad roulette games, then have a computer digest them. The idea was that roulette wheels had tiny construction flaws, such as tilts, that favour certain numbers over others.

The casino, which denied entry to Garcia-Pelayo in 1992, was overruled by the government in 1994 and had been seeking ever since to reimpose the ban.

Garcia-Pelayo's crew won more than one million euros ($A1.77 million) from the Madrid casino, including 600,000 euros ($A1.06 million) in one day, the newspaper El Pais reported.