Putting the "Pseudo-" in Pseudo-Random

This is not quite as cool as Ben Mezrich's book 'Bringing Down the House', which chronicles the escapdes of the MIT blackjack team in Vegas, but my brother linked me to a short article about a group in Britain that used lasers to gauge the speed of the roulette ball to make millions. This type of gadgetry is strictly illegal according to Mezrich, so I'm surprised they will be keeping their money. Nonetheless, clever ways of shaving away at the razor thin probabilities in gambling will always earn top honors from me, the more absurd the method the better.