If we knew any winning roulette sequences we would not be writing this article; right now we would probably be relaxing on the deck of our yacht moored up in Monte Carlo enjoying the Monaco Grand Prix.
Perhaps we might also have visited the famous Monte Carlo Casino, as had the famous individual who was supposed to have broken the bank there. In fact two people have been attributed with inspiring the song “The Man who broke the Bank at Monte Carlo”.
One of these was Joseph Hobson Jagger, who was an engineer from England. He realised that the accurate engineering of the roulette wheel was sufficiently demanding that some wheels would inevitably demonstrate some bias, and as a result some numbers would be more favoured than others. To check this out he had a number of insiders log the spins off all the roulette wheels in the casino at Monte Carlo. One wheel was discovered that showed a definite bias towards a group of numbers. By betting on these numbers he eventually won what would be in today’s money over £3 million. You could start your attempt to break an online casino bank with an online casino bonus from www.onlinecasinobonus.co.uk and you never know how lucky you might get playing roulette online.
The other and more likely person referred to in the song is Charles Wells from England, who was both a crook and a con-man. He had an amazing stroke of luck on the roulette wheels during which he amassed over three million francs in just a few days. He returned to Monte Carlo the following year with a large bankroll of other people’s money which they had invested in one of his scams. He started winning, but then the tide turned against him and he lost it all. Eventually he was arrested and spent much of his life in French and English prisons.
Breaking the bank at Monte Carlo refers to winning so many chips at a game that the game has to be closed down temporarily until it is restocked with chips. The song was made famous by Charles Coborn, a comedy and song star of the English music hall.