You don’t need to a big fan of Goethe and his Faust to fall in love with the game though, but this theory could come in handy when going through a rough streak. The argument frequently cited in support of this claim is that the numbers on the wheel will add up to 666, so there definitely has to be something unholy going on. Back in the day, legends had a slightly different flavor and some claim that Frenchman Francois Blanc was so determined to gain the secrets of the game that he struck a deal with the devil. There are plenty of stories that modern players like to share when it comes to Roulette and most of them are about bad beats and incredible downswings. The roulette wheel gained a lot of traction relatively quickly and by the end of the century, it was a popular game in Paris. Apparently, he was trying to create a perpetual motion machine as he was studying probabilities, but the outcome took him by surprise. The history of the game begins more than 300 years ago, at the end of the 17th century, with Frenchman Blaise Pascal being credited with this invention.
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