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	Joseph Jagger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joseph Hobson Jagger (1830–1892) was a British engineer, referred to as, but not an exclusive holder of the title of, the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
		Jagger was born in September 1830 in the village of Shelf in Calderdale, Yorkshire.
		Jagger gained his practical experience of mechanics working in Yorkshire's cotton manufacturing industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Jaggers (421 words)

	Encyclopedia: Joseph Jaggers
		Joseph Hobson Jaggers (1830â“1892) was a British engineer, referred to as, but not an exclusive holder of the title of, the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
		Exploiting this characteristic, Jagger swept through his first day earning USD 70,000.
		After a losing streak, Jaggers finally recalled that a scratch he noted on the biased wheel wasn't present.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joseph-Jaggers (714 words)

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		JOSEPH J. Joseph was born in February of 1871.
		Joseph was from Ohio and Verner was born in Tennessee.
		Joseph A. Menke, born in 1829, left Germany in 1850 with his brother Thedore, sister Lizette and with his widowed sister Josephine and her two children.
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	Win roulette. questions about: secrets of winning at casino or online roulett
		Jaggers was not a "gambler" in the true sense of the word.
		Included in the Jaggers system is a way for you to prove it to yourself that this system is everything we say it is and more.
		Joseph Jaggers is perhaps the most famous roulette player in the history of the world.
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		Joseph Jaggers (1830 -- 1892) wasa British engineer, popularly known asthe man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
		Jaggers gained his practical experience of mechanics working in Yorkshire 's cotton manufacturing industry.
		Exploiting this characteristic, Jagger made a profit of USD 450,000 before the casino management intervened tomodify the wheels.
	www.therfcc.org /joseph-jaggers-149903.html (165 words)

	Win roulette. secrets of winning at casino or online roulette
		Because using the Jaggers system, you can also visually calculate the speed of the ball and the speed of the wheel and place bets where you're sure the ball will land.
		Jaggers won at the casino roulette wheels all over the world with his system.
		The Jaggers system is a "secret" not a "mystery." What I mean by that is that a "secret" can be known and shared.
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	Joseph Jaggers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joseph Jaggers (1830–1892) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems) engineer, popularly known as the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
		He discovered that one of the wheels showed a clear (A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation) bias, in that nine of the numbers occurred more frequently than the others.
		Exploiting this characteristic, Jagger made a profit of (Click link for more info and facts about USD) USD 450,000 before the casino management intervened to modify the wheels.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/joseph_jaggers.htm (179 words)

	Descendants of Simpson Portwood
		James Thomas JAGGERS b: November 22, 1856 in Moweaqua Twp., Shelby Co., IL d: March 14, 1939 in Harbor, Curry Co., OR Burial: March 17, 1939 in Ward Cem., Brooklings, Curry Co., OR +Ms.
		Joseph Arlo RIGGS b: March 21, 1914 in Weiser, Washington Co., ID d: March 30, 1985 in Brewster, WA 6 Mr.
		Joseph James JAGGERS b: January 03, 1884 in Moweaqua Twp., Shelby Co., IL 5 Mr.
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	Gamblers in History Page 2 - Howard Hughes, Joe Jackson, Joseph Jaggers, Nikita Khrushchev, Brian Molony. ...
		An engineer named Joseph Jaggers took his skills to the Casino Beaux-Arts in Monte Carlo and won the most famous series of bets in gambling history.
		Jaggers came to the realization that the Roulette wheels at the casino couldn't produce truly random numbers as each wheel would have a different balance.
		Jaggers chose this wheel to sit down at and started placing bets - within four days he had made himself $300,000.
	www.famousgamblers.com /gamblers2.htm (445 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: A World of Luck (The Full Monte) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The next morning though Jaggers went to his usual table, he was up against an unbiased wheel.
		It was then it dawned on him that a certain miniscule scratch he'd previously noted on his Jaggers-friendly wheel was no longer in evidence.
		Playing into the teeth of this, Jaggers went on a two-day losing streak.
	www.snopes.com /luck/monte.htm (374 words)

	Famous Bets in Roulette History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jaggers began placing bets on these nine numbers and within four days he won over $300,000.
		After watching Jaggers, the casino decided that there was something puzzling going on at the table, so they decided to move the entire table to a different location in the casino.
		When Jaggers came back he ended up losing $125,000; however, over the course of the entire event he still had well over $325,000.
	www.rouletteassistance.com /famous-bets.shtml (421 words)

	FindProfit.com Profitmap: MSSN Adds New Board Member
		We were excited to see the addition of Joseph Jaggers to speculative energy & exploration play Mission Resources' (MSSN - 8,8,7) Board of Directors on Thursday.
		Jaggers has more than two decades of experience in the oil & gas biz in engineering, operations and management capacities.
		Prior to that, Jaggers was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Barrett Resources, which WMB acquired in August 2001.
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	BEST BONUSES. Getting an even chance with the odds. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joseph Hobson Jaggers worked in a textile mill where wooden spindles were used to wind the wool.
		Jaggers bet on this wheel and won $300,000 in four days play.
		Jaggers decided to quit while he was ahead and netted a profit of $325,000 - equivalent to around $3 million today.
	www.top12casinos.com /articles/article32.htm (776 words)

	Jagers - 2nd Company. Hesse-Kassel Jäger Korps. Table of Contents. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jaggers is a handwritten typeface based on the letterforms Caslon.
		Jaggers: The Representative Lawyer of commentary about the lawyers of the time.
		Jaggers, from the novel Great Expectations, seems not to be an exception.
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		I certify that the company commanded by Lieutenant Joseph Dreibelbies is now in the service of the United States, under order of the general commanding, Fourth military district.
		The meeting was then addressed by Joseph Rhoads, J. Reimensnyder, and James Cameron, who urged in able and eloquent terms the importance of preserving the integrity of the government.
		While this election was in progress the court house was crowded with citizens assembled to raise means for "providing for the families of the married soldiers, and furnishing clothing for those not provided with the articles necessary for a campaign.
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	Roulette Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joseph Hobson Jaggers – a man who had a passion for the roulette game was working in a textile mill way back in 1873, when he noticed that the wooden spindles used to wind wool wore down over time.
		With six friends Jaggers visited the casinos to make a study of the numbers that came up on the roulette game wheels.
		Their analysis showed that as the roulette game spindle wore down it caused imbalances, and on one of the roulette game wheels a set of nine numbers won repeatedly.
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	Business Week Online: Personal Investing
		Jaggers has over 23 years in the oil and gas industry in engineering, operations, and management positions.
		Jaggers served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Barrett Resources Corporation in Denver until August 2001, when Barrett was acquired by Williams.
		Jaggers earned a bachelor's of science degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for six years.
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	Joseph Jaggers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joseph Jaggers - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Joseph Jaggers (1830–1892) was a British engineer, popularly known as the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo.
		In 1891, Fred Gilbert wrote a popular song, The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo about Jaggers's exploits.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Joseph_Jaggers (214 words)

	Who was the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo? in The AnswerBank: People & Places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jaggers hired six clerks to sit at six roulette tables for 12 hours a day and record the numbers that came up.
		The next day Jaggers played the wrong wheel and lost $200,000 before he worked out what had happened.
		He noticed that the familiar scratch on his lucky wheel was missing, scrutinised the rest and found where it had been moved.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article3246.html (379 words)

	Elizabeth Knotts Jaggers
		Elizabeth Knotts, wife of Joseph Jaggers was from Beaghall, England.
		Joseph and three of his children emigrated to the USA.
		Joseph died at sea leaving the three siblings to continue the journey.
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	Joseph Jaggers Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	John Joseph Keane -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Joseph Keane (September 22, 1839 – June 22, 1918) was an American (The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy) Roman Catholic (A bishop of highest rank) archbishop, was born in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
		His family emigrated to America when he was seven years old.
		A selection from his writings and addresses was edited by Maurice Francis Egan under the title Onward and Upward: A Year Book (Baltimore, 1902).
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	Monte Carlo
		James Bond, fictional British spy and hero of the James Bond movie series, frequented the city's glamorous, Edwardian casino.
		In 1873 Joseph Jaggers became "the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo" by discovering and capitalizing on a bias in one of the casino's roulette wheels.
		Technically the bank in this sense is the money held by the croupier: according to an article in The Times in the late 19th century, it was thus possible to break the bank several times.
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	halvorsen.org - halvard halvorsen's weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His knowledge of spinning machines made him wonder if all the roulete wheels at the casino were perfectly aligned, so he hired six clerks to take notes of the numbers coming up on the wheels in the casino.
		Jaggers went on to win a fortune using his knowledge.
		Ninety years later a similar coup was attempted by a couple of the Internet’s real pioneers.
	halvorsen.org /games/gambling/roulette (1037 words)

	Urban Legends Retold \| #10 \| Urban Legend magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An Englishman, Joseph Jaggers, achieved both in the late nineteenth century.
		But casinos are not known for their charity, and a manager ordered the wheels swapped between tables over-night to foil Jaggers.
		But the casino again found a way to stem the tide - a set of moveable frets, which separate the numbers on the wheels, was designed, and shifted each night after closing on each of the wheels.
	urbanlegend.f2o.org /legends (2488 words)

	Amelia Bensinger Repp
		Children were: CHAD DANIEL JAGGERS, SUMMER JOY JAGGERS.
		She was married to MERLIN JOSEPH HILTY on May 13 1933 in WARWOOD, WVA.
		She was married to DANIEL WARREN JAGGERS on Aug 23 1974 in DALLAS, TX.
	www.stonecabin.com /bensinger/garepp/d2.htm (1177 words)

	Hardin Co., KY Queries Page 8
		Joseph moved to Kentucky, settling in the Washington County area.
		Joseph GRABLE (III) was born (ca.) 1770 in Penn. and moved to Nelson County in 1791 with his father Joseph GRABLE (II).
		Joseph GRABLE (III) married Drucilla BROWN on January 5, 1793 and I'm looking for any documentation verifing this union, deeds, etc..
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	Monte Carlo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The citizens of Monaco are exempt from taxes, and they are forbidden to enter the gaming rooms.
		In 1873 Joseph Jagger gained the casino great publicity by 'breaking the bank at Monte Carlo' by discovering and capitalizing on a bias in one of the casino's roulette wheels.
		Technically, the bank in this sense was the money held on the table by the croupier.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monte-Carlo (365 words)

	Roulette - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As the referenced article on Martingales points out, this betting strategy is fundamentally flawed in practice.
		Various attempts have been made by engineers to overcome the house edge through predicting the mechanical performance of the wheel, most notably by Joseph Jaggers, the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo in 1873.
		To try to prevent exploits like this, the casinos monitor the performance of their wheels, and rebalance and realign them regularly to try to keep the result of the spins as random as possible.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Roulette (635 words)

	The Auburn Plainsman Message Board: Roulette Wheel Bias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		year was 1873 when Englishman Joseph Jaggers (1830-1892) made his fantastic run on the Beaux-Arts Monte Carlo Casino.
		Those questions in mind, Jaggers hired six clerks to record every number that came up on the roulette wheels in the 12 hours a day the casino was open.
		But like Jaggers, this Spanish family rapidly caught on to the casino's ploy and continued winning until finally the casino banished the lot of them from the casino (illegaly too).
	www.theplainsman.net /ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=78014 (1805 words)

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