@zreb all of the above. you can spin away thousands of pounds in less than an hour with the computer pumping out losing number after losing number. many of the machines in the bookies have been smashed up by irate customers over the years, but the bookies dont do anything about it as they want them to come back to do it again, so unless there was something major that happened, the bookies wouldn't pursue it with the authorities. I think that says a lot in itself.
I no longer even look at them, but I do remember years ago playing them and covering just about every number on the roulette wheel, and the amount of times it spins that one number that you dont have, or the one you have the lowest amount on is just literally unbelievable. its really something you have to see to believe. I know people will say yeah its a computer, or yeah these things happen live as well, but its very much different to me.
its up there with being rivered on pokerstars every hand!