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How To Win At Roulette
Flaws in the Game RouletteI've read ads for roulette ebooks where someone actually claims to have "found a flaw in roulette" after 20 years of playing the game. Are you kidding me? This guy claims the light went on after 20 years, and he now knows more about roulette than any other roulette operator, statistical analyst or gambler in the world. There's such a thing as math, though. The mathematics of roulette show that casinos have a house edge of 5.26% on most bets in roulette. On one bet, the casino has a house edge of 7.89%. That's because casinos pay 35-to-1 on bets that are 37-to-1 against you. Every other bet you can make has a similar advantage in favor of the gambling operator. That's the math. There is no "secret roulette betting strategy" which someone beats this house advantage. Off-Balance Roulette TablesOne method for how to win at roulette is finding the off-balance roulette table. Some people swear that you can beat roulette by finding a table which isn't balanced. These people will say that some roulette wheels are slightly tilted or unbalanced, meaning that the steel ball is more prone to land on certain roulette numbers on a certain side of the wheel. Casinos publish the last certain number of winning numbers at a particular roulette table. Usually, the last 15 to 24 roulette numbers will be displayed. If you know the layout of the roulette table and divide the roulette wheel into 4 to 6 pie slices, you can then analyze which slice has had more winning numbers in the last twenty or so spins. As the unbalanced roulette wheel theory goes, the slice with the most wins might be more likely to include more wins in the next 20 spins. So the roulette player should bet on the numbers in this slice of the roulette wheel. Roulette Table ReadjustmentsKeep in mind that casinos check for out of tilt roulette wheels all the time. Casino management keeps detailed records of all winning numbers on all their roulette wheels. If one roulette wheel begins to turn up an inordinate number of wins for certain numbers, the floor manager will order an inspection and possible repairs on that table. If you find a roulette wheel you believe is unbalanced, it's not likely to stay out of balance for long. You have to remember that random samples of roulette spins are just that - random. A sample as small as 20 spins is such a fraction of the overall spins that it's impossible to analyze trends from such a small sample. If the numbers "2", "14" and "35" each come up in those 20 spins, does it mean those numbers (which are adjacent to one another) are at the dip of a tilted roulette wheel? Or is it just that 20 different numbers will come up, and these just so happened to come up during those 20 spins? Perhaps if you had all day to record spins on a particular roulette wheel, you would be able to pick out an off-level roulette wheel. The chances are you wouldn't, though. Meanwhile, you'll be playing roulette on one table while trying to analyze the many different hits, more than likely playing against the house edge. Free Roulette Strategy - My Roulette SystemYou'll see people pushing ads for a "free roulette system" or "free roulette strategy", where someone claims to be offering a roulette strategy without a price, but instead wants to sell you a "how to win at roulette" strategy book. For instance, I recently saw a roulette ad that offered a 99% chance of winning on a 12-number bet. You could choose either a "column bet" or a "third bet", where you select a block of 12-different numbers. Using a progressive betting system, they guarantee to give you nearly a 99% chance of winning at roulette. Using this system, you're supposed to take in on aver $70 an hour. Now, this doesn't make a bit of sense. I'm guessing that the progressive system expert doesn't actually claim to give players assurance they will win ninety-nine percent of your bets (which is crazy), but is sure to either give you a 99% payout or a chance to win back your money on losses 99% of the time. In the first case, you'll still be losing $1 for every $100 you bet - which would be great for roulette, but still not assure wins. In the latter case, I'm assuming the idea is that you'll win back your money 99% of the time using a progressive system like the Martingale System, if you keep doubling your bet often enough. What this doesn't tell you is that 1% of the time (under their model) will cost you your entire bankroll. Studies show that progressive betting systems in roulette expose players to the "risk of ruin" - that is, losing all their money. In fact, progressive betting tends to expose players to a risk of ruin much more often than 1% of the time. In the Martingale strategy, you double your bet every time you lose a spin. A $10 bet becomes a $20 bet. A $20 bet becomes a $40 bet. This double every time, so you go to $80, $160, $320 and $640 (sometimes over a table limit) with only 6 losses, if you start at $10 bets. If you start at $5, you get there in seven losing spins. If you're played roulette any length of time, you know that winning and losing streaks happen all the time. Even when betting on 12 numbers at a time, you're likely to have 6 or 7 spins in a row where you lose. If you do, you're going to be losing hundreds of dollars a losing spin rather quickly. Unless you want to be wagering several hundred dollars per spin, stay away from progressive betting systems. Make Money Playing RouletteLet's look at the $70 an hour in roulette winnings. Just imagine a system that assures you will win 99% of the time. Wouldn't you expect to win more than $70 an hour using such a system? I know that's an average number, but it seems like 99% of the time you would win money, while 1% of the time you would lose money. These 99 people would only win $6,930 in all their roulette sessions, on average. So unless that 1% is losing tens of thousands of dollars, the eventual payoffs of the winning roulette system just doesn't seem to be paying off much. How to Win at Roulette - Winning Roulette SystemsSo avoid experts who offer to sell you the secrets of "winning at roulette". These guys talk a great game, but they can't deliver. The house edge for roulette is for casinos, not players. If there were a secret to winning, every roulette player would know it by now and the casinos would have changed the rules. The fact that casinos have kept the rules of roulette stable for all these years show there is no secret how-to win at roulette. |
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