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Castle roulette · Report

One green spin, $144,000: the player who flipped castle roulette's day

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Castle roulette players finished the 24 hours to 13:00 UTC on September 23 up $150,854. Almost all of that came from four players, and the biggest part came from one 30-second spin.

At 08:30:29 UTC the castle roulette wheel stopped on green, the 48x coin that comes up about once every 47 spins. Nine players had money on that round. Geezy1010 had a little over $3,200 on green alone.

Green pays 48 times the stake, so that came to roughly $155,000. Take away the rest of what they put on that spin and it came to +$143,900 in one round. From the outside it looked like the house lost a day's worth of profit in half a minute, and on the analytics chart the castle line nearly doubles in a single hour.

Castle roulette: cumulative player P&L
Hourly, 24 hours to 13:00 UTC Sept 23. Dashed line is everyone except the four players in this story.
All castle playersEveryone except the four

The dashed line is the real story. Take out four usernames and the other 558 castle players spent the whole day within a few thousand dollars of break-even, and they were just $3,370 up at 13:00, next to nothing compared with the four. Half an hour later they were down $7,914. The +$150k is not a trend. It is a handful of very large bets that happened to land.

How much he was betting before it hit

Geezy1010 first showed up the evening before, at 18:11 UTC on September 22: one spin, $1,411 spread over the pink 16x, orange 24x and green 48x coins. It missed. They didn't bet on castle again for fourteen hours.

At 08:26 the next morning they came back with the same plan: only the three long-shot coins. In twenty rounds they never put a dollar on red, blue or purple. The first spin, $2,650 with about $1,175 on green, landed green straight away and paid +$53,754.

Most people would stop there. Geezy1010 raised the stake instead: $4,854, then $5,756 three times, $6,094, then $8,124 twice. None of them hit. In about three minutes, seven straight misses took $44,463 of the first win back, and they were down to about +$7,900 on the day.

Geezy1010's stake per spin, 08:26–08:35 UTC
Each bar is the total put on one round. Green bars are the two wins, labelled with the round's profit.
Losing spinWinning spin

Their next bet, placed at 08:30:09, was their biggest so far: $11,281, with $4,738 on pink, $3,311 on orange and $3,233 on green. Twenty seconds later the wheel came up green again, the second green in four minutes.

Two greens in four minutes. The odds of that are long, and Geezy1010 was on both of them.
Bet placed (UTC)ResultStakedRound P&LRunning total
Sep 22 18:11Blue 4x$1,411−$1,411−$1,411
08:26:05Green 48x$2,650+$53,754+$52,342
08:26:38Purple 8x$4,854−$4,854+$47,489
08:27:11Red 2x$5,756−$5,756+$41,733
08:27:35Red 2x$5,756−$5,756+$35,977
08:28:07Blue 4x$5,756−$5,756+$30,221
08:28:42Red 2x$6,094−$6,094+$24,127
08:29:04Blue 4x$8,124−$8,124+$16,003
08:29:40Red 2x$8,124−$8,124+$7,879
08:30:09Green 48x$11,281+$143,900+$151,779
08:30:40Blue 4x$10,529−$10,529+$141,250
08:31:11Blue 4x$18,366−$18,366+$122,885
08:31:34Red 2x$25,582−$25,582+$97,302
08:32:14Blue 4x$25,582−$25,582+$71,720
08:35:37Purple 8x$5,625−$5,625+$66,094
10:11–10:165 spins, no hit$5,016−$5,016+$61,078

Then he gave most of it back

When that green landed at 08:30:29, Geezy1010 was up $151,779 on castle roulette. That is the peak you can see on the chart, and it didn't last.

The stakes kept rising after the win: $10,529, then $18,366, then $25,582 twice, more than twice the size of the bet that won. The wheel went blue, blue, red, blue. By 08:32 the profit was down to about $72,000, and one last $5,625 spin at 08:35 also missed. In five spins and five and a half minutes, $85,685 went back to the house.

They came back at 10:11 with much smaller bets: two test spins of $1 and $9, and three of about $1,500 to $1,850, and lost five more in a row before stopping at 10:16. Final result for the day: +$61,078. That's still a very good day, but it's well under half of what they had at 08:30.

The other three names on the chart

Geezy1010 wasn't alone. Three other high rollers each moved the line by $25,000 or more:

Between them the four finished +$147,484. By 13:30 UTC, with no more big wins, castle's 24-hour number had already slipped back to about +$139,600.

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