Joseph Jagger

Joseph Hobson Jagger (* 1830, † 1892) was a British engineer, who by winning in a casino in Monte Carlo, the Beaux-Arts Casino, as The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo was known. According to him, or Charles Wells the song The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Fred Gilbert from 1892 is titled.

In 1873, Jagger carried out a private investigation, whether the roulette games behaved as expected true or statistically significant deviations exhibited by a lack of calibration. To this end, he hired six people who wrote down all the one day each at a roulette game. While he found no differences in five games, he was unable to determine the sixth game of roulette nine numbers that were to be expected more frequently than statistically.

With this knowledge Jagger won up to $ 450,000. Despite counter-measures of the casino, suffered through a losing streak Jagger him last remaining 325,000 U.S. dollars profit.