'Let me see you do that again?' I quipped. 'The objective is to hit a six-number quadrant of the wheel,' he explained.to a still dubious audience. It bounded a few times and then dropped into the pocket for number 35, just three numbers away from his target 0. He yanked the ball and I watched it spin around the cylinder with disinterest. I felt like I was participating in another ages-old boring card trick, but not to be rude I said, '0'.
He took me over to one of the wheels in his training room and asked me to pick a number. The astute table games director begged to differ. I told him no because there was no validity in roulette dealers controlling where the ball lands. I got into a conversation with the casino's table games director who asked me if I was going to include roulette-dealer-ball-control in my table-games-protection segment. If I was asked that question two years ago, I would have answered a firm 'no.'īut that all changed when I was training the staff of a Midwest Native American casino in 2016.
