Thirteen Against the Bank: The True Story of How a Roulette Team Broke the Bank with an Unbeatable System PDF
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Thirteen Against the Bank Norman Leigh High Stakes This edition published in 2006 by High Stakes Publishing 21 Great Ormond Street, London, WC1N 3JB www.highstakespublishing.com © Norman Leigh 1976 The right of Norman Leigh to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of the publishers. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 1 84344 032 6 EAN 978 1 84344 032 1 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Typeset by Avocet Typeset, Chilton, Aylesbury, Bucks Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman, Reading This book is dedicated to Dianne Roberts, a great lady who stood by me in my hour of need, and to the twelve gallant and coura- geous men and women without whom this book would not have been possible. Contents Foreword 9 Chapter 1 13 Chapter 2 29 Chapter 3 49 Chapter 4 67 Chapter 5 81 Chapter 6 87 Chapter 7 95 Chapter 8 117 Chapter 9 127 Chapter 10 147 Chapter 11 155 Chapter 12 183 Chapter 13 197 Chapter 14 209 Chapter 15 223 Postscript 235 7 Foreword This book is a true and detailed account of how a lifelong obsession led me to achieve what all expert opinion holds to be impossible – beating the table at roulette. I have changed certain names and places to protect the innocent – and the guilty. I fully expect a great deal of hostility, both from ‘experts’ and from an industry which needs no lessons in ruthlessness, as you can judge for yourself from what happened in casinos in London and France to the group of law-abiding English people I brought together to ‘break the bank’. Our only crime – to win methodically and consistently at roulette. If I have found the perfect system for beating the wheel, why should I wish to reveal it to the whole world? Why am I not seated even now at the table before a vast pile of chips and plaques, turning myself into a millionaire? You will understand the answer to the question when you have read this book. Let me make it clear – my system is not a secret formula for winning easy money, far from it. It is damned hard money. The events described here took place in 1966. Why have I waited so long to write about them? Simply because it did not occur to me until one evening in a hotel bar in Hampshire when I was describing my roulette adventure to a friend, Derek Solity, a jewellery representative. He said it would make a marvellous book. The more I thought about it the more I had to agree. But even then I hesitated. There is a dark side to the mythology of casinos, strange 9 NORMAN LEIGH stories of disappearances and the like, death and rumours of death. After all, the gambling industry is not run on the same lines as the Church of England and has vast profits to protect. Inevitably, attempts will be made to discredit both my system and my character. Certainly I am no candidate for canonization. I have served a term of imprisonment because of incidents totally unconnected with roulette. Some two years after my return from Nice I set up a property consultancy in Twickenham and subse- quently became involved in an alleged fraud case, for which I was sent to prison. This in turn merged into a criminal libel prosecution regarding material I published concerning a policeman. Rightly or wrongly, I elected to defend myself at the Old Bailey rather than be represented by counsel. I received an acquittal on the major charge but was convicted on a count of what amounted to publishing matter which could have resulted in a breach of the peace. For this I was sentenced to a subsequent term of imprisonment. Let me make one obvious point – one would not expect to find a lifelong obsession with gaming at a professional level in a lay preacher. To some extent my compulsion to make roulette history has been a jagged reef on which my life several times came near to foundering. While a certain sleight-of-hand has been used to dramatize events, I should stress that real names have been changed to protect the members of my team. In getting cash out of France we committed an offence against that country’s currency laws, and as members of an organised syndicate they would have had tax problems in Britain. However let me assure the reader – I am willing to accept, in advance, any challenge whatsoever to the feasibility of my method for winning large sums at roulette, which I call the Reverse Labouchère system. I put myself at no risk – thirteen of us proved that my method works and we proved it at the table, with real money. NORMAN LEIGH Hants, 1975 10
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