This clip where a guy bets his whole lifesavings on the single spin of the roulette wheel has been pretty widely circulated around the net. Whilst he got lucky (actually extremely lucky), I’d say there are at least two reasons why he’s a bit of an idiot (not mentioning the most obvious being that he bet every penny to this name!). First, he apparently placed a wager of US$138,000 on normal American roulette...

I’ve always been a little skeptical about people claiming to have invented an infallible roulette system. Yet I came across a news article the other day about a 70 year old grandfather in the UK who in 2007 managed to win over £360,000 in just 10 days when playing online roulette at InterCasino. Incredibly his numbers just somehow kept coming up. Apparently when he was asked about what his secret to winning...