Roulette Strategy
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Roulette is a game of chance. At a core level, this means that good luck is required if you are to win money. As with all casino games, the probability is that you will lose more times than you win over a series of games – if this were not the case, the casino would go bust quite quickly.
However, roulette is also a casino classic, and as such there have been several hundred years for serious players and mathematicians of various abilities to attempt to devise strategies that lower the house edge. Before we look at some of these strategies, it is important to note that there is no way short of cheating to influence the odds on the modern roulette table. Historically, mechanically flawed tables have provided the opportunity for players to calculate the bias using mathematical analysis, thus gaining an advantage. However, the design of modern roulette wheels has made bias much less likely, and in any event tables are frequently rebalanced to deal with this issue. In the online casino, bias is simply not programmed into the equation.
Classic roulette strategies centre around betting patterns and progressions. In general, these patterns are designed to maximise returns when you hit a winning streak, or recoup losses during a losing streak. While there are many variations, the latter type of system will almost always be based around the Martingale System, one of the oldest roulette strategies devised.
The Martingale System focuses on recouping losses during a series of even money, outside bets. Each loss is followed by a doubling of the initial (losing) stake. No matter how many times a loss occurs, the same tactic is applied, until a win results in the recovery of all losses thanks to the even money payout, which also returns double the initial stake.
The main problem with the Martingale system is that a series of losses can see the player either quickly lose all their money as stakes double, or hit the table limit for bets, signalling an end to the sequence and thus the chance to recover losses. The idea that a loss, or series of losses makes a win more likely next game is a misunderstanding of probability known as Gambler’s Fallacy. The table has no ‘memory’, and so the probability of each possible outcome is the same, each game. Happily, the same applies to winning streaks; four wins in a row does not make a fifth win any less likely – the odds always stay the same.
It is the fact that winning streaks not only can occur, but are statistically likely to occur if you play enough games of roulette - thanks to dumb luck - that makes progressive gambling systems so popular. All of these strategies have a system for determining the size of the next bet after a win, some systems have rules for the size of the stake after both wins and losses. Mathematically, none of these systems reduces the house edge.
While extremely difficult, the most feasible way to increase your chances of winning at roulette involves observing the natural bias that results from the muscle memory of the croupier. Over a long series of games, it may become apparent that the croupier has a finite number of spin speeds for the wheel, and throw speeds for the ball. Having an idea of which sector of the roulette wheel that the ball will land in can allow the placement of last minute straight up bets on the numbers in that sector, although casinos usually counter this possibility by changing the croupier on each table regularly.
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