Could a smartphone app help win roullete?

[SaltyNuts]

I was just thinking. Roullete is basically 50/50 odds, a little under this for the player given the two greens I believe. With just a LITTLE nudge those odds might go above 50% for the player, making it a money winner in the long term. Cell phones these days are amazing, having camaras and apps and what not. Might an app be created where you could point your phone at the roullete wheel when the ball is spinning, and it performs calculations and tells you whether the ball will more likely land on red, black, even, odd, etc.? Does such an app exist?

Thanks.

 

[vi edit]

I think that's a very good way to see yourself escorted out of a casino.

 

[nakedfrog]

I think there's big money in this idea, OP, and thoroughly encourage you to write the app/hire a contractor and see how well it works.

 

[gorcorps]

I think that's a very good way to see yourself escorted out of a casino.

This, and I believe there's a point of no return where you can't place any more bets on the table. I think they cut this off before the ball is released, so it's pretty much moot. Even if all this wasn't true, how is a simple camera going to figure out where a ball is going to land based on images alone? All it could discern from a video is speed of the ball, but nothing about it's weight, the friction on the different surfaces, etc

 

[purbeast0]

OP as a developer myself and one who has published mobile apps to the app store, this idea is horrible.

 

[Schfifty Five]

I was just thinking. Roullete is basically 50/50 odds, a little under this for the player given the two greens I believe. With just a LITTLE nudge those odds might go above 50% for the player, making it a money winner in the long term. Cell phones these days are amazing, having camaras and apps and what not. Might an app be created where you could point your phone at the roullete wheel when the ball is spinning, and it performs calculations and tells you whether the ball will more likely land on red, black, even, odd, etc.? Does such an app exist?

Thanks.

I'm sure an app could be developed along with a powerful enough smart phone to accomplish that, but it would be far too impractical for numerous reasons that others have already pointed out here.

 

[shortylickens]

Roulette is NOT basically 50/50.


Do yourself a huge favor. Sign up for college. Take a statistics course. Find out how little you really know about gambling.

 

[nakedfrog]

You guys are all just haters and Doubting Thomases with no vision. Aim for the stars, SaltyNuts! Show them all!

 

[sdifox]

Why stop there, build your own cpu and computer as well.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Roulette is NOT basically 50/50.


Do yourself a huge favor. Sign up for college. Take a statistics course. Find out how little you really know about gambling.

Agreed. Saying "basically 50/50" means hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the Casinos each year.

 

[herm0016]

Why stop there, build your own cpu and computer as well.

with 3D printers in public storage.

 

[Not So Mild]

While there may be a way to develop an app to do just what you are saying (I'm not in that line of business so I could be wrong here), casinos won't allow it. For one, pretty much every casino I've been to doesn't allow phones at the tables. There might be exceptions if you were paying for their entire salaries but generally no. There is also a cutoff point where you aren't allowed to make bets. The dealer will spin the ball, and as it begins to slow down they call no bets and you can't put anymore money on the table. And even if neither of these conditions were true, I can promise you that if you were seen trying to cheat, they'd break your legs and kick you out.

With all that being said, this is all theoretical and I encourage you to develop the app, win some fat stacks of cash, and post the results here.

 

[Darwin333]

I'm sure an app could be developed along with a powerful enough smart phone to accomplish that, but it would be far too impractical for numerous reasons that others have already pointed out here.

Yeah but it's not that simple, the ball bounces a lot as it slows and starts hitting the number slots and is often thrown backward against the direction it was originally spinning. I'd think that calculating all of those variables would be pretty damn hard, hell just programming all of the possible variables would probably be hard as hell.

 

[John Connor]

Roullete is a loser's game. You're better off playing poker.

 

[Crono]

Roullete is a loser's game. You're better off playing poker.