I remember Doyne Farmer giving a talk on this 20+ years ago. The basic premise is that each table has a slight tilt to it, and this can be calculated by measure

I remember Doyne Farmer giving a talk on this 20+ years ago. The basic premise is that each table has a slight tilt to it, and this can be calculated by measurements of the ball position, velocity and landing position over multiple spins. While the concept and maths was interesting, the amazing part was the wearable shoe computer that they built. Some photos are on his wikipedia page [0]. Apparantly they did some consulting to the gambling industry afterwards and that is the origin of the diamond-shaped obstacles which add more unpredictability to the ball. Though given the Real Hustle video posted by another commenter, the same idea still works today, but the calculations involved must be more significantly complex to compensate. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Doyne_Farmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Doyne_Farmer