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The
casinos weren't the only ones altering the wheels. There
are many stories of brazen individuals who snuck into the
casino wheel room after closing and doctored up the roulette
wheels. Armed with pliers or other tools, these people would
loosen up a few of the pocket frets by twisting them back
and forth.
These loosened separators would then absorb more of the
ball's energy, causing it to remain in that pocket. Others
would glue some kind of material to the bottoms of certain
pockets to affect the ball's bounce. Depending upon the
material, different results could be expected.
For example, gluing thin sheets of lead on the bottoms of
select pockets would deaden the ball's bounce and make it
more likely for the ball to stay in that pocket. Whereas
affixing thin sheets of hyper elastic material, like that
found in a super ball, to the pocket's bottom would cause
the ball to easily bounce out and avoid that particular
pocket. Either way, the perpetrator is attempting to create
a biased wheel. We'll talk more about biased wheels in Part
3 and Part 4.
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