Andrew Roulette Obituary
Ruby Kate Roulette, age 84 of Maryville, passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2018, at Blount Memorial Hospital. She was a member of Dotson Memorial Baptist Church and was preceded in death by her husband, James Houston Roulette; daughter, Sandra Roulette; sisters, Georgie Patty, Mildred Pruitt, Billie Shope.
Kyler Soldier Roulette-Daniels
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- Joseph Andrew Ungvarsky, 89, of Hagerstown, MD, passed away, Monday, November 23, 2020, at his home.Born Thursday, April 30, 1931 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, he was the son of the late Andrew Ungvarsky and the late Anna Christine (Paulkovsky) Ungvarsky. He was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years Ruthanna Marie Ungvarsky.
With great sadness we announce the peaceful passing of Kyler Soldier Roulette Daniels on Friday, September 24, 2010 at the Portage District General Hospital, one hour and thirty minutes after his birth. During his brief life, Kyler brightened and touched the hearts of everyone who was with him after his birth. He was a great great grandson, great grandson, grandson, son, great great nephew, great nephew and nephew. 'HE WAS OUR GREATEST GIFT FROM GOD'.
He was predeceased by his uncle Andrew Blake Daniels-Berman and great uncle Christopher Dwayne Richard. Left to cherish his memory are his mother Paige Daniels and father Stephan Roulette; aunties Kaytlyn Daniels and Abi Daniels; uncles Vincent (Martina) Houle and Nicholas Roulette; grandparents Carrie Daniels and Jason Flett and Stephanie Roulette and Ricky Roulette, as well as aunts, uncles and both great and great great aunts and uncles.
'How softly you tiptoed into my world
Almost silently, only a moment you stayed.
But what an imprint
Your footsteps left upon my heart.
'Lovingly lifted from Cent. Corp 'Little Footsteps'
'I'll lend you for a little while A child of mine' God said
- For you to love the while he lives and mourn for when he's dead.
It may be hours or years, forty two or three
but will you, till I call him back, take care of him for me?
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Traditional Feast will be held at the Long Plain Spirit Lodge on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 12 noon followed by the funeral and burial led by his great great grandfather Donald Daniels.
The honourary pallbearers will be Nathan Roulette, Craig Bear (Tiny), James Lepine and Hannah Sioux. Active pallbearers will be Robert Houle and Vincent Houle. Kyler will be laid to rest in the Merrick Cemetery, Long Plain First Nation.
A tree will be planted in memory and cared for by McKenzies Portage Funeral Chapel 857-4021A message can be left in the on-line guest book at www.mckenziesportagefuneralchapel.com
“Richard Jarecki, Doctor Who Conquered Roulette, Dies at 86”
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Thanatos Savehn is right. This obituary, written by someone named “Daniel Slotnik” (!), is just awesome:
Many gamblers see roulette as a game of pure chance — a wheel is spun, a ball is released and winners and losers are determined by luck. Richard Jarecki refused to believe it was that simple. He became the scourge of European casinos in the 1960s and early ′70s by developing a system to win at roulette. And win he did, by many accounts accumulating more than $1.2 million, or more than $8 million in today’s money . . . He and his wife honed his technique at dozens of casinos, including in Monte Carlo; Divonne-les-Bains, France; Baden-Baden, Germany; San Remo, on the Italian Riviera; and, briefly, Las Vegas.
How did they do it?
At the time, Dr. Jarecki told reporters that he had cracked roulette with the help of a powerful computer at the University of London. But the truth was more prosaic. He accomplished his improbable lucky streak through painstaking observation, with no electronic assistance.
Ms. Jarecki said in a telephone interview on Monday that she, Dr. Jarecki and a handful of other people helping them would record the results of every turn of a given roulette wheel to discover its biases, or tendency to land on some numbers more frequently than others, usually because of a minute mechanical defect caused by shoddy manufacturing or wear and tear.
Here’s some juicy statistical detail:
Ms. Jarecki said that watching, or “clocking,” a wheel, as Mr. Barnhart described it, could mean observing more than 10,000 spins over as long as a month. Sometimes a wheel would yield no observable advantage. But when Dr. Jarecki and company did find a wheel with a discernible bias, he would have an edge over the house. “It isn’t something he invented,” Ms. Jarecki said. “It’s something he perfected.”
Wow. This obit has more statistical sophistication than most of the PNAS papers I’ve seen.
Jarecki was bi-cultural: He was born in Germany, then his family moved to the U.S. when he was a child, then after graduating from college he moved back to Germany, then he met his wife, an American, during a medical residency in New Jersey, then not long after that they returned to live in Germany together.
Also this:
In addition to his wife, with whom he also had a home in Las Vegas, he is survived by a brother, Henry, a billionaire psychiatrist, commodities trader and entrepreneur; two daughters, Divonne Holmes a Court and Lianna Jarecki; a son, John, a chess prodigy who became a master at 12; and six grandchildren.
Two nephews of Dr. Jarecki are the award-winning documentarians Andrew Jarecki (“Capturing the Friedmans” and the HBO series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst”) and Eugene Jarecki (“Why We Fight” and “The House I Live In).”
And, finally:
Dr. Jarecki moved to Manila about 20 years ago, his wife said, because he liked the lifestyle there and preferred the city’s casinos to those run by Americans.
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His touch at the roulette wheel endured until nearly the end. Ms. Jarecki said he last played in December, at a tournament in Manila. He came in first.
Roulette tournaments? Who knew??