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Roulette Strategy
Mar 21st
The truth is there is not much strategy when it comes to betting on roulette. It doesn’t matter how you bet. The European roulette wheel has an extra zero-pocket for the house, giving it a 2.6% edge. The American wheel has an extra zero-pocket on-top of the European, giving it a huge house edge of 5.3%.
It’s no wonder Albert Einstein once remarked “You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it”. There is no way you can defy the gravity of the odds with any roulette strategy that involves manipulating your betting.
If you want to win at roulette, you need to know where the ball will land. Of course, if someone knew exactly where the ball will land, the casinos would have to shut up shop.
But, fortunately we don’t need to know where it will land every time. As a matter of fact, we only need know where it will land 6% more often than it should on the American wheel, and 3% more than it should on the European wheel, to make a nice profit.
The question is why would some numbers on a roulette wheel come up more often and how could you possibly find out?
Some numbers on a roulette wheel may come up more than they should due to an unlevel wheel, a worn rotor, an unsymmetrical ball or even a dealer with a pattern to their throws. When this happens, we call the wheel “bias”, as opposed to “random”.
To find a bias wheel you need to do some complicated statistical mathematics, called chi-square analysis. This simply tells us if abnormally popular pockets are due to statistical variation (luck) or caused by a bias wheel.
Once we know there is a bias, our betting strategy simply becomes bet as much on the bias numbers as possible – without tipping of the casino of course.
To do the analysis you will have to monitor many spins, write them down on a pad and do the complicated maths with a calculator every time a spin is done. Or, you can use a software program like Roulette Raptor that does all the monitoring and calculations for you. If you would like to learn more Roulette Raptor, please visit my website at http://www.RouletteRaptor.com
Ernest is an avid roulette player, programmer and creator of Roulette Raptor; advance software for finding bias roulette wheels. If you would like to learn more about his software, please visit http://www.RouletteRaptor.com
Roulette Strategy: Learn How to Beat the Casinos
Mar 12th
Anyone who has ever had the chance to play roulette will know by now that roulette is purely a game of chance. There is no skill involved in the game at all. Although there are a number of different options for betting on roulette, the average payout is the same no matter what option you choose. However, there are a number of roulette betting strategies that people have employed over the years.
The most widely employed roulette betting strategies are variations on the Martingale betting strategy. In basic terms this strategy involves making even money bets and doubling your bet each time you lose. This way the next time you win you’ll recover all your losses and make a profit equal to the original bet. While you can make a short term profit, this system can only result in loss in the long term. After only five consecutive losses your bet would have to be 36 times your original bet. Lose again and it would be 72 times. As you can see you can quickly end up in deep water. Also the potential winnings are not high in this system. For instance, if your original bet was £10 and you lose five times in a row you’d have to bet £360 on the sixth spin of the wheel. If you win you’ve only made £10 profit. If you lose then you’ll have to bet £720 on the next spin and you’d still only make £10.
Another method, described by an editor of the New York Times, Andres Martinez, is to divide your bankroll in to 35 piles. Then make a ’straight up’ bet on the same number 35 consecutive times. If your number hits then you win back your original bankroll. If your number doesn’t come up then too bad. It can take a long time to spin the wheel 35 times and this method can be a lot of fun. You might get some odd looks at first but it won’t be long before other players are putting bets on your number. The cheer that will go up if the number hits will raise the roof. Unfortunately there is only about a 60% chance of any one particular number coming up in 35 spins of the roulette wheel. It’s a good way to have fun but a bad way to win money.
Albert Einstein apparently said, “You can’t beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.” However, there have been a handful of roulette players throughout history that have beaten the game with a system that works regularly. The systems that they used are based on the fact that roulette tables are not perfect and minor deviations in the angle it tilts or if it becomes slightly unbalanced can effect where the ball lands. This means that on certain roulette tables the ball is slightly more likely to land in come pockets than others. If you can work out which numbers these are then you might have a slight edge. Unfortunately most casinos have wised up to this and re-balance their wheels frequently.
Perhaps the first person to do this successfully was an Englishman called Joseph Jagger who hired six people to secretly monitor the roulette wheels at the Beaux-Arts in Monte Carlo in 1873. They watched for about two years and discovered that one of the tables showed a clear bias in that some of the numbers came up more frequently than the rest. Jagger placed his bets accordingly and allegedly won US$300,000 in three days.
The casino tried to throw him by relocating the wheels, but when Jagger noticed that a telltale scratch on his favoured roulette wheel was not present on the table that now occupied its place he sought it out. He found it and began winning again. In the end the casino resorted to dismantling the wheels and rebuilding them every day. By this time Jagger had won an absolute fortune and left Monte Carlo for good. The story goes that Jagger invested his winnings in property and died a very wealthy man.
Jean De Plume also writes articles for Casino Lagoon, a casino gambling blog.