The players in question are Barnhart’s so-called Honor Roll, a list of the most successful biased wheel roulette specialists of all-time, regular winners of six-figure sums in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Monte Carlo. “The main purpose of my initial ten chapters is to teach the (biased wheel) system through a variety of examples: how long these players spent clocking their wheels, whether they bet on one number or several separated from one another on the wheel or grouped in a section, whether they adopted a proportional staking system or stuck to flat bets, and – of great importance – how they thwarted secret casino countermeasures.” With a systematic approach and crisp prose, Barnhart explains the intricacies of biased wheel play in direct terms, and the following passage is symbolic of his approach to the game:
This roulette book is concerned with assessing the vulnerabilities of every roulette wheel in the house before acting accordingly and taking advantage.