BREAKING THE BANK.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4899, 12 October 1901, Page 4

BREAKING THE BANK.

At tbe end of the I/ondon season there is always a rush of faehioDable people to the south of Europe, and this year the authorities at Monte Carlo seem to have made special efforts to attract part of the stream of visitora to their giddy little town. The proprietors of tbe gambling tables spend an enormous sum in ' subsidising ' tbe Press, and this year one of the stories they have succeeded in getting through half the newspapers on the Continent refers to an ' infallible ' scheme of ' breaking tbe bank ' that has been discovered by a Portuguese named Almeida. According to a telegram published in the London * Express,' this gentleman has won thousands from the tables, so much, indeed, that he is now prepared to sell his secret for £50,000. It is rather remarkable, by che way, that the inventors of gambling systems are always ready to part with their ' patents ' for a consideration. It may seem strange to ordinary mortals that Senhor Alroei Ja, whose road to wealth is represented as being so sure and so easy, does not keep his secret to him sell and win the £50,000 at the tables, and aa much more as the proprietors are inclined to lose. But probably hi*B offer is made in the interests of the gentlemen who reap most of their profits from ' systems ' that are intended to reduce chance to a certainty. The announcement of bis good fortune is sure tio stimulate the imagination of other inventors. A few years ago an Englishman went to Monte Carlo with a small fortune, and an idea that could not fail to multiply his wealth a hundredfold. The system, as he called it, was based on a mathematical calculation. He simply took a list of all the winning numbers in one evening, and then worked out the chances of their turning up again the next day. At the end of three months he banged himself in his bedroom, having lost thousands of Mb own money as well as thousands of other people's, and for a day or two the tables were in disfavor with respectable people. But it was only for a day or two. Before the end of the week other inventors were trying their systems, and often with the same result. The proprietors of the tables, if they are not already in collusion with the ingenious Portuguese, will doubtless be very pleased to meet Senhor Almedia and his invention, and to relieve hitn as promptly as possible of any superfluous cash with which he may be encumbered.

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