They did the cash change. The supervisor okayed it and made a note on his clipboard. He put the two chips on black and used the kinetic spell to nudge the ball from three into twenty-four black. He doubled the bet and watched as the ball plopped straight into fifteen black the next spin. He then took one thousand off the table, his original bet, and left three thousand. The next spin tried to land in thirty red, but he used the spell to nudge it over into eleven black. He added one thousand of the winnings to the bet and took two thousand off. This time he made no attempt to prevent the ball from landing in one red, and the dealer took his chips away. He was still two thousand up.

He took the two thousand he was up and put them on red. The ball came up nineteen without any help from him, and he repeated his earlier ploy of adding one thousand of the pay-out chips to the stack and taking one thousand away. The next spin had the ball bobbling around, and it looked like landing in ten, so he used the kinetic spell to push it into five red. He repeated his betting method of adding one thousand of the winnings to the bet and pocketing the remaining two thousand. He was now up three thousand. He let the bet ride unsupported, and the ball landed in one red anyway. All right. Follow the system.  He added one thousand to the bet to make it the table maximum of five thousand. Indeed, the dealer checked the amount under the direction of the supervisor. The next number up was black, and the five thousand was swept away. But he was now ahead six thousand with the extra win.

He pulled some chips out of his pocket and put three thousand on black. Eleven came up again without needing any help from him, and he added two thousand to the bet and pocketed one thousand. The next spin, he had to help the ball into twenty-eight black and so collected five thousand. Nine thousand up. He left the bet out there and refrained from helping the ball land in a black number again, and double zero came up. Losers all. Good. Mind you, the supervisor and the suit were still watching him, although not as intently as the fellow the previous day.

He made a show of hesitating with his next bet, then not betting at all on the next spin. The result was black, so he bet that for three thousand. Nudged the next ball into seventeen black, took one of the winning three thousand, and added the remaining two thousand to the now maximum bet, which the dealer checked. Eight black without any need for interference, and he took his five thousand payout. Twelve thousand up. He left the next spin alone and still hit twenty black. Seventeen thousand up, and they had run out of five-hundreds and had to pay him partially in hundreds.