Poker is the only game in town for a nerd in vegas.
I once read a book (The Eudaemonic Pie, now unfortunately out of print) about a group of nerds who tried to come up with a way to beat the house at roulette.
It involved using small computers to predict where on the wheel the ball would most likely land. The computers were actually hidden in their shoes, and controlled using switches by their toes. One of them would click one of the buttons whenever the ball passed a certain point on the wheel, allowing the computer to predict (after having spent some time 'learning' the physics of that particular wheel) where the ball would eventually end up. It would then transmit that infomation to a device in a second player's shoe, who would then place the bets. It was actually quite a remarkable feat, considering this was back in the seventies. (And it would probably be illegal now)
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I once read a book (The Eudaemonic Pie, now unfortunately out of print) about a group of nerds who tried to come up with a way to beat the house at roulette.
It involved using small computers to predict where on the wheel the ball would most likely land. The computers were actually hidden in their shoes, and controlled using switches by their toes. One of them would click one of the buttons whenever the ball passed a certain point on the wheel, allowing the computer to predict (after having spent some time 'learning' the physics of that particular wheel) where the ball would eventually end up. It would then transmit that infomation to a device in a second player's shoe, who would then place the bets. It was actually quite a remarkable feat, considering this was back in the seventies. (And it would probably be illegal now)