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  • Breaking Vegas Beat the Wheel (Season 1, Episode 8)
  • TV Episode | Documentary, Drama

Breaking Vegas

Beat the Wheel (Season 1, Episode 8)
TV Episode | Documentary, Drama
Packard and Farmer become interested in roulette as college science majors. They spend three years analyzing the physics of the wheel, deriving equations, collecting data and building portable, concealable computers to determine on which ...See morePackard and Farmer become interested in roulette as college science majors. They spend three years analyzing the physics of the wheel, deriving equations, collecting data and building portable, concealable computers to determine on which eighth of the wheel approximately six numbers the ball will drop into. After the ball is released, the player times the speed and location of the ball and the wheel and the computer returns the likely eighth. Bets are placed on this group of numbers which appear random on the table. The system works well as it boosts their odds tremendously. They go on to recruit a team but the rigors of the system and hardware reliability issues force them all to retire prematurely. Written by BlackEight See less
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Director
Ted Schillinger
Writer
Emi Macuaga
Producer
Jonathan Lief
Editors
Terry Katz | Erik Klein
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Apr 26, 2005
Release date
Apr 26, 2005 (United States)

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