Roulette Stories and Legends

The most famous roulette story ahs to be that of Chris Boyd, a 40 year-old computer programmer from England. In January of 1994, Chris followed his dream to the casinos of Las Vegas for the ultimate roulette spin.

Chris had saved $220,000 over a three year period, and wanted to put it all on one spin of the wheel. He searched around Las Vegas for a casino that would actually take his bet. With refusals from most of the major casinos, Chris was referred to Binion’s Horseshoe Club. The Horseshoe Club had a limit of $100,000 on a red/black bet, but they agreed to accept his wager. The casino also agreed to block out the double-zero on the wheel as this didn’t exist in the European version of the game that Chris was used to playing.

Chris chose to place his bet on red. The casino and the dealer agreed to a few practice spins to ensure that full fairness for everyone concerned, and then the big spin came.

The ball landed in number 7, red.

Chris won $220,000 instantly, and asked for the money to be put into the casinos cage, and vowed never to gamble again.

Roulette Questions and Answers

Q – What is the most times that the same number has come up in a row?

A – The record for the highest recorded times that the same number has come up in a row was set on July 9th 1959 at the San El Juan Hotel in Puerto Rico when the number 10 came up six times in a row. The odds of this happening are 1 to 3,010,936,834.

Q – How much money can I win playing roulette?

A – How much money you win depends on how much money you want to bet, and how much luck you have when you are playing. The highest ever win in a session of playing roulette was the Billy Walters Team in 1989 that reportedly won $4, 810,00. It’s not known how big their starting stake was.

Q – What are the odds that every number on the roulette wheel will come up once only in 38 spins?

A – The odds of this happening have been recorded as 1 in 2 Quadrillion (I have no idea how many 0’s are in that number)! With an estimation of 5,000 roulette wheels in operation around the world, spinning 24 hours a day, the probability of this say that it will happen around once every 25 million years.