Spanish courts authorize the entry of probability calculators into casinos.

The Supreme Court rejected the claim by the Madrid casino, which wanted to ban the entry of roulette players who had blown the bank thanks to probability calculations on winning streaks, judicial sources reported on Wednesday.

 

According to the high court's ruling, casinos cannot prohibit entry to players who observe the frequency of roulette prizes and who, through probability calculations and a computer program, can predict results with small margins of error, since, according to the sentence, the players did not commit any irregularity.

 

The ruling established that these skillful gamblers resorted "to ingenuity and the application of computer technology to discover that in one or more specific roulette wheels, certain numbers had, due to physical causes imperceptible to the naked eye, a higher probability than others of being winners in a more or less prolonged playing time."

 

The Supreme Court recommended that casinos also resort to ingenuity to defend themselves against the players they wanted to ban from entry. AFP