SUCCESSFUL WOMAN GAMBLER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3720, 16 October 1906, Page 4

SUCCESSFUL WOMAN GAMBLER.

As a rule women never make any money at Monte Carlo, because they lose their heads. It is the women gamblers who make the Casino coffers so rich, women drawn to the tables of pleasure like moths to a candle. It is nevertheless a fact that a woman, says a writer in the “ Penny Magazine,” made more money out of the Casino than anyone else had ever done. She was an old woman, and had been a regular attendant at the tables for years, but had lost more money than she had won there. But suddenly she noticed that at the roulette tables two numbers always followed each other. For instance, when the croupier spun with the number nine opposite him the winning number was 26, and so on. She arranged the winning numbers on a piece of paper and then began to bet. She won —won heavily. In a short time she had accumulated 300,000 francs and broken the bank three times. The officials were at first astounded, then suspicious, and soon panicstricken. Then sent for M. Blanc from Paris, and after a long interview he persuaded the lady to part with her secret for 70,000 francs. Then it was found that the woman’s system was not a system at all. The secret of her success was bound up in the fact that the roulette wheel had become warped with the heat, and always stuck at a certain point when a certain number was spun.