Stardate not given: While in Odo's holding cell, the notorious El-Aurian swindler Martus Mazur takes a gambling device from a dead fellow prisoner. So equipped, he opens a x on the promenade deck when he is released. He gains the widow Roana and Quark's brother Rom as associates. Much to Quark's displeasure the "Club Martus" soon abounds with guests, who at some point all simultaneously win in the x - whereas occurrences of bad luck are reported from everywhere on Deep Space 9. When Quark strikes back and wins O'Brien and Bashir for a charity racquetball match, something is strange. O'Brien, who normally wouldn't stand a chance, doesn't miss a single ball. It turns out that the gaming device is changing the probability for the neutron spin throughout the station. Commander Sisko rules that the devices have to be destroyed. Martus, however, has been duped himself by Roana, who has taken his earnings to invest them into a non-existent asteroid mining project.

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