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I Believe Derren Brown Did Do The Stunt On The Roulette Table As He Said He Did.
For those of you who didn't see it Derren Brown bet £5k on a single number on a roulette wheel. He says he did it by watching the way wheel and the ball was spinning, the velocity and every other factor that contributes to where the ball finally ends up. Just before the croupier says "no more bets" Derren claimed he worked out what number it would end up on. He missed - he got the neighbour, but one slot away is fairly remarkable. All done live in a real casino filmed secretly.
 StBalders  06 Oct 2009 19:09
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I looked it up on youtube. It's plausible. Remarkable, but plausible.
 
 verum  06 Oct 2009 21:32
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Maybe he filmed a few times, maybe the whole casino was a fake but I reckon the guy is just incredible and has a remarkable brain that enables him to do things like this.
 
 StBalders  06 Oct 2009 19:21
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 If you want to see it go to you tube derren brown roulette (but not russian roulette, that was something else and a clearly a trick).
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 06 Oct 2009 19:22
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To not put too fine a point on it, I have certain expertise in this area (gambling). What Derren Brown claimed to do was a highly precise form of sector targeting, but it's impossible. The human brain just can't calculate that precisely from visual information only and get an answer, especially in the time. People have created computers that use lasers to measure speed and so on, but even they can only get it right within a small area (often 8 numbers wide! On the wheel that is, not the table). As such I think it is possible to rule out Derren's explanation. He's a remarkable man, and I'm a big fan, but he's not superhuman, so he can't have done it.
 
 Quincel  07 Oct 2009 15:03
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 Interesting. Any ideas how he might have done it?
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 10 Oct 2009 19:09
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