Derren Brown Tonight (Friday)

Pj!

Derren Brown: The System
Investigating the psychology behind gambling and using his unique combination of skills to create guaranteed wins, Derren proves his system works every time. Not only that, but he explains it fully to us at home. But how fool-proof is this system and will his participant, believing in him and his predictions, risk her life-savings on one more race?

As Derren reveals: "I took a member of the public and I told her which horse would win in a certain race; when it did win she was intrigued and I did it again and again and she started to bet more and more money according to my system. She's scraped together every last penny she could find and she is risking it all on one final race. Is it really possible to predict every time which horse will win? Welcome to The System."

On tonight at 9pm on channel 4.
May be interesting to try and spot how he does it at least.

jameshayes

i'm not gonna see it... do c4 have that 'watch it online later' thing?

Rowley Birkin QC

I think that most of those things are country specific, UK shows only available to UK residents methinks.

ArmedResponse

Doesnt he have a show on in ireland soon?

Kinda32

Its replayed tuesday night on E4 at 9.00

jameshayes

bigkev49 wrote: »

I think that most of those things are country specific, UK shows only available to UK residents methinks.

I'm sure i can just use a UK proxy

Rowley Birkin QC

jameshayes wrote: »

I'm sure i can just use a UK proxy

How does that work then? If it's long and complicated, don't worry bout it.

jameshayes

google it... it's really simple...

here's one i found earlier.... but i'm sure there is better ones... never tried it, just heard about it...

http://www.proxysite.co.uk/

mike65

Surprised this thread isn't much longer!

Mike.

Bob the Builder

Yay!!!!!!

Nah, ur unlikely to find a proxy which will work on the site... Tried it with BBC before, but most proxies usually send a "message" to the site which shows that it's a proxy, and then they're just blocked.

It's a great show and I am currently reading "Tricks of the Mind", It's a fantastic book, and explains many of the concepts. I have a few of his e-books as well, and in one of them, he explains how he does all of his poker tricks. ...ebooks costs money though

He has started to do all his magic in america for his show because of his anonymity. Casinos and other gambling shops have began kicking him out of their premises in England.

Nev

PeakOutput

so do people believe this is a trick or what?

presumably if he is going to explain it it must kinda work?

growler

will have this on in the pub during our friday poker game... should be interesting anyway

dsmythy

I'll have a goo when it's on. Surely some trick behind it otherwise after tonight we'll all be winners! One other part of a show he did was at a greyhound track where he managed to get paid out on losers by using some mind trick on the poor girl at the counter.

themadchef

A system that guaranteed to back a winner every time :eek:, t'would put the bookies out of business. *What would we do then?

C4 is available if you have sky. Just stuck it on autoview. Cant wait. cheers Forky.

Imagine if it actually works. lol



*I don't imageine i would ever get fed up with Vegas with all the money we would have made helping those poor old bookies close down.

ambman

Derrin brown is on channel 4 now.

He is showing a system for backing horses.

just thought i would let you know

Pj!

Anyone watching?
Looks fairly obvious that he sent out tips for each horse for a race to loads of people, then sent the winners out tips for the next race, tipping every horse. And on and on, until someone had got all winners. (the old tipster trick)

themadchef

Yeahh think youre dead on the money there Forky..the whole "anon" thing with the texts and emails. Hmmm.

dsmythy

Forky wrote: »

Anyone watching?
Looks fairly obvious that he sent out tips for each horse for a race to loads of people, then sent the winners out tips for the next race, tipping every horse. And on and on, until someone had got all winners. (the old tipster trick)

Yeah, very suspicious. The coin thing was him throwing it in completely in his control probably from hours of practice. Interested to hear him explain how he picks the winner at the track at the end of the show.

Pj!

Ha, he even admits it the begger.

Oldist tipster trick in the book. Not very original Derren.

dsmythy

HAHA Forky, spot on. This could be a bit of a disappointing, but expected end.

Rowley Birkin QC

There better be some kind of twist, god damn you Derren Brown.

Pj!

Worst show in quite some time.

dsmythy

I guess not. At least she won a load of cash from the terrible bookies. If she even did that!

ArmedResponse

WOooooh what an unexpected ending!!

NOT!!

Very disapointing and unlike usual derren!nerly as bad as kieth barry standard!haha

Kinda32

He probably put 4000 on all the horses and slipped the winner in her pocket at the end!!!.. Not exactly a fool-proof system.. haha

mike65

I want my money back

Mike

Chucky the tree

Judging by this thread it looks like there is alot more then 1 born every minute..

dsmythy

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Judging by this thread it looks like there is alot more then 1 born every minute..

Bit harsh. Who took it seriously?

Pj!

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Judging by this thread it looks like there is alot more then 1 born every minute..

You obviously mis-read the thread.

DeadSkin

Kinda32 wrote: »

He probably put 4000 on all the horses and slipped the winner in her pocket at the end!!!.. Not exactly a fool-proof system.. haha

I know if I gave someone 4k to put on a horse, I'd check the slip straight away.
Show was kinda interesting for a while, when he got the 4 people from the racing world to pick a photo each from 500 photos, and the ones they picked had the same initials as themselves. They then stood in the order 1/4/3/2 and this then spelt out the odds of it happening 1.42 billion to one.
Meh, suppose it's the way the show was advertised, 'ohhh finally a way to beat the bookie', sorta hypes the show up.

jameshayes

Was i lucky i spent my time consuming drink instead of watching this?

Chucky the tree

dsmythy wrote: »

Bit harsh. Who took it seriously?

the fact that 2 threads were started about it.

Mellor

I think it was easy for anybody who has half a gambling mind to spot how it was done.

BUT, when I announced at the start, when we first see the black lady, how it was done. Some of the family were impressed. To a non-gambling person, thinking in that respect is not common. Thats who the show is aimed at

Pj!

Chucky the tree wrote: »

the fact that 2 threads were started about it.

Show me a popular gambling forum where it wasn't mentioned?

Now don't get me wrong I am no great defender of this forum, it definitely wouldn't be my first choice but idiotic posts annoy me a bit.

PeakOutput

im pretty sure his intention was to lure people in to watch with the promise of a system and then "teach them a lesson" about gambling when he shows what it would statistically take to pick 4 winners in a row.

i hope he did actually predict the last winner but i guess we will never know and the thing at the start with the photographs and envelopes was quite good