"Where did British mill engineer Joseph Jagger famously ""break the bank"" at a gaming establishment in 1873?"
Joseph Jagger and Changed Gambling Forever", published by Amberley in 2018. Joseph Jagger Joseph Hobson Jagger (2 September 1830 – 25 April 1892) was an English textile industry businessman from Yorkshire, who in is said to have "broken the bank at Monte Carlo" by identifying and exploiting biases in the wheels of the roulette tables there. Joseph Jagger was born at Cock Hill, near Shelf, Yorkshire on 2 September 1830. In his youth he worked in the textile trade in Bradford. He married Matilda with whom he had two sons and two daughters. In the 1871 census, Jagger was described as a
Men who broke the bank at Monte Carlo In a ceremony devised by François Blanc, the original owner of the casino, a black cloth was laid over the table in question, and the successful player was said to have broken the bank. After an interval the table re-opened and play continued. The names of only a few of the men who broke the bank are known, and some are listed below. Joseph Jagger was a Bradford textile engineer who looked for and found imperfections in the balance of a wheel which he exploited to win a fortune and break the bank. The casino responded by redesigning the wheels