How a Man in a Plague Mask Beat Roulette Using Math

In 2019, a young police officer in Marseille pulled the mask off a notorious casino cheater known as the Plague Doctor—and recognized the face beneath it.
The trail leads back to a forgotten 19th-century watchmaker who proved roulette was never truly random, and forward to Étienne Marchand, a modern actuary who turned human fatigue into a mathematical weapon. Exploiting dealer patterns instead of mechanical flaws, and hiding behind a ceramic mask, he drained Europe’s most secure casinos without breaking a single rule.

But the real trick wasn’t at the roulette table. As authorities closed in, the investigation was quietly controlled by the one man who understood it best—a detective with the same face, the same DNA, and a brotherhood built into the crime itself. This is the full story of the Plague Doctor, a statistical heist, and how the perfect crime wasn’t cheating the casino, but erasing the line between hunter and hunted—until no one could tell who pulled the trigger, or who walked away.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Cold open
00:47 - The Watchmaker's Ghost
01:28 - The Human Variable
02:48 - The Mask
03:29 - Casino de Monte-Carlo
07:09 - The Investigation
08:19 - The Chase
09:17 - The Warehouse
12:54 - The Brother
13:48 - The Footnote

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