The core idea behind this “how to win at roulette” strategy is to gradually decrease your bets while you are winning and increase them while you are losing. You might have already guessed that the best way to play roulette games with this strategy would be to use it on bets where the winning.
- There are however some rare approaches (bets or systems) that can increase your odds of winning considerably. According to some players this is one of the easiest to use strategies that can actually produce wins at the roulette tables. Please note that according to my experience and test the best roulette strategy is still the Kavouras Bet.
- No, there isn’t a winning strategy to roulette but if you disagree feel free to let us know in the comments!
There are winning strategies such as card counting for blackjack, and other methods like hole carding for blackjack and other card games. You can win short-term and run away with your winnings. Your method is as good as my roulette method of betting random numbers. This is not us telling you your strategy doesn't work, it's probability and math. The notion of hot numbers is false. The ball has no memory. It will land anywhere with equal chance. The repeat numbers you're seeing is variance. If anybody can predict variance on this forum, we would be in the casinos raking in hundreds of thousands or millions. There is a reason why casinos spend tens of thousands of dollars to put a board up there with the history of numbers. It's to give the misINFORMED the illusion that there is a pattern. It makes you want to bet with more confidence. Casinos wouldn't do anything if they knew it gives the players advantage (just think about it). You're not the first to talk about trends and hot numbers in roulette and you won't be the last. I am really not in the business of discouraging you to not make money. However, I'm soft hearted and hate to see many members come to this forum thinking they have a 'system' and go lose their house. There is a reason why the Wizard of Vegas has a prize for somebody who comes up with a winning system. I think the prize is $10K. Nobody has been able to crack it in the long-run. The reason is math. You're probably going to come back and say you were only talking about 'short-term.' Even in short-term your 'system' is not a 'system.' It's just a faulty way of thinking there are hot numbers when all it is coincidence and probability. Can the number 3 hit twice in a row? Sure it can. 3 times? Absolutely. Three times in 10 rolls? Yes, we're all seen them. That doesn't mean there is going to be another 3 in the next 10, 20 or 30 rolls.
what about those individuals who tracked tens of thousands of spins at a roulette wheel and then found biased number through a computer application and played those numbers and won hundreds of thousands or millions. There's a documentary on youtube about it. Do such biased wheels still exist?
'In the early 1990s, Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo believed that casino roulette wheels were not perfectly random, and that by recording the results and analysing them with a computer, he could gain an edge on the house by predicting that certain numbers were more likely to occur next than the 1-in-36 odds offered by the house suggested. This he did at the Casino de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, winning 600,000 euros in a single day, and one million euros in total. Legal action against him by the casino was unsuccessful, it being ruled that the casino should fix its wheel.[11][12]
To defend against exploits like these, many casinos use tracking software, use wheels with new designs, rotate wheel heads, and randomly rotate pocket rings.[13]' from wikipediaIbeatyouraces
Ibeatyouraces is right. It is a form of Advance Play. IF it is even possibly today, you’ll need a team to scout and record all the roulette tables and their rolls to probably tens of thousands to rolls to see if there is even a statistically significance to it being biased. I’m not as mathematically inclined like many of these experts are but I may be underestimating the number of tens of thousands. It may be hundreds of thousands perhaps. Maybe this will paint a better picture. A larger sample size vs your short term “hot numbers” are vastly different.
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Why are people excited to gamble and go rushing to Vegas and casinos if the only outlook they have is losing?
The only outlook is uncertainty: The knowledge that you don't know if a wager will leave you richer or poorer. Adrenaline either way.What's the point of casinos and even this forum if the whole vibe is negativity from gambling?
Nothing negative about understanding the nature of probability.I know there are many losers but have there been any winners who have ever beaten the casino?
I've won more than I've lost. Does that make me a winner? Does that mean I've beaten the casino? I was just lucky. It was fun, so nothing to explain or justify.There are some players of skill games such as poker and sports betters, who may be at an advantage. They are extremely rare. There are con men who make a living out of selling useless systems to gullible fools. That latter group are not welcome here. Anyone ignorant enough to try to push martingale or similar systems here as anything more than a fun way of losing money, will get their ideas shredded and rightly, ridiculed.
Some members here know how to exploit certain casino weaknesses. These are the true advantage players. That includes a subset who are skilled enough to get an edge in blackjack. There are also fools here who claim to be able to beat craps or roulette. They know who they are and some post here, spouting nonsense. just to be mischievous.
Craps, Bac, and blackjack (unless you are counting), same thing. I can play all of those games for 15-20 minutes, and then it just gets repetitive.
Slot machines at least have fun pictures and TV clips. (I can only play those for 15 minutes too).
I think I might be getting too old for all of this.
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Huh? Did I leave my webcam on again?wheel bias or dealer signature
If there is a wheel bias and you correctly identify it, then yes, you could make money consistently. However, seeing a single number twice in a small sample is WAY more likely to be random than it is to be evidence of a true wheel bias.
If for some ungodly reason I was ever forced to play roulette your idea can be no worse than any other, and has the tiniest chance of actually being better.
No. There is no 'winning' strategy for roulette. You will always lose in the long run.
The best strategy for roulette is only play with the amount you are comfortable losing, and only play to have fun.
The second best strategy for roulette is hope you get lucky early on and win a little bit, then never play roulette again for the rest of your life.
Good point. I've heard countless stories of people who were up big money early on and didn't leave and ended up not only losing all the big money but all or most of their bankroll. I remember a woman on another gambling website saying something like'Within a few minutes I won enough to pay my mortgage and my car payment for this month,but I didn't leave. I wanted to make sure I had enough money to pay next month's mortgage and car payment too. I ended up losing all the money. I could have paid this month off but got greedy and lost it all. I felt so stupid and irresponsible.' A guy said a woman won like $5,000 on her very first hand within 5 minutes and she said'I'm not leaving! I just got here!' The guy left the table after she said that. That could end up really badly for her. :/
Zelda,
Ibeatyouraces is right. It is a form of Advance Play. IF it is even possibly today, you’ll need a team to scout and record all the roulette tables and their rolls to probably tens of thousands to rolls to see if there is even a statistically significance to it being biased. I’m not as mathematically inclined like many of these experts are but I may be underestimating the number of tens of thousands. It may be hundreds of thousands perhaps. Maybe this will paint a better picture. A larger sample size vs your short term “hot numbers” are vastly different.
Yes, your definitely right, the so called 'hot numbers' appearing in a very small sample size is not enough to say those numbers are going to appear more often in the future. However, if the possibility of there being a wheel bias is present in most wheels, would it not be worth getting that team to record numbers for tens of thousands of spins. I mean the hard work will pay off when you find those special numbers and start betting and winning large amounts of money?
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Winning at roulette doesn’t take a magic formula or a secret system. It’s purely a game of luck. So if you’re looking for a secret strategy or surefire way to win, you’ll probably be disappointed by the information on this page. On the other hand, if you’re interested in learning the real odds of winning and what you need to do in order to be a winner, you’ll be thrilled by the info on this page.
The Odds of Winning at Roulette
An America roulette wheel has 38 numbers on it—the numbers 1-36 (inclusive), a 0, and a 00. Calculating the odds of winning a bet on any single number is simplicity itself—you have one way to win out of 38 possible outcomes, which makes the odds of winning 37 to 1. This bet pays out at 35 to 1 odds.
Of course, the single number bet isn’t the only way to win at the roulette table. A plethora of betting options await the roulette player, in fact. These betting options have different odds of winning, but they also offer different payouts.
Another easy example of roulette odds are the even money bets. 18 of the numbers on the roulette wheel are red. 18 of them are black, and two of them, the 0 and the 00, are green. So if you bet on black (or red), then you have 18 ways to win and 20 ways to lose. Your odds of winning are slightly less than 50%. 18/38 is 47.36%. This bet pays out at even odds.
If you’re paying attention, you’ll notice that in both of these scenarios, your odds of winning are less than the payout odds. This is what gives the house an edge over the player. In the short run, anyone can walk away from the roulette table a winner. But in the long run, the house is always going to come out ahead.
So how do you become a winner at roulette?
The Maximum Boldness Strategy
Let’s assume that your goal is to just double your money. How do you maximize your chances of doing that?
The correct mathematical strategy is to make one bet of your entire bankroll, cross your fingers, and hope you get lucky. If you lose, you’re out of money, but if you win, then you’ve succeeded in your goal.
The maximum boldness strategy entails placing a single even money bet and hoping to get lucky. You’ll have a 47.36% chance of doubling your money.
Suppose, on the other hand, that you’re going to place two bets with half your bankroll. You’ll have to win both bets in order to double your money. What’s the likelihood of that happening?
That isn’t hard to calculate either. When you’re calculating the probability of two events happening, you multiple the probability of each event happening. So you would simply multiply 47.36% by 47.36%.
The result?
22.42%
Your chances of doubling your bankroll drop dramatically in that case, don’t they?
Suppose you divided your bankroll into four separate bets. Your chances of doubling your money would drop even further.
47.36% X 47.36% X 47.36% X 47.36% = 5.03%
So if your goal is to double your money, the best strategy is to place a single bet. The more bets you place on any negative expectation wager, the more likely the house edge is to catch up with you.
You might still walk away a winner in this situation, but it will be a smaller win. And you’ll be less likely to double your money.
What about Systems?
Roulette systems don’t work. Most of them involve increasing or decreasing your bet based on the outcome of your previous bet. The idea is that the odds of losing several bets in a row is smaller than the odds of losing a single bet, and vice versa.
The problem with this line of thinking is that you’re not placing a single wager on a series of bets. You’re placing multiple wagers on multiple events, and the odds of each event are independent of each other.
The house’s edge over the player doesn’t change based on the previous spin of the wheel. If you bet on black and lose, then the odds of black hitting on the next spin are still 47.36%. The probability doesn’t change because of what happened previously.
The most common of these bogus systems is the Martingale system, which requires you to double your bet every time you lose. The idea is that you’ll eventually win back your previous losses plus a single unit.
Here’s an example. Suppose you bet $5 on black and lose. On your next bet, you wager $10 on black. You lose again, so your next bet is $20. This time you win, so you’ve won back the $15 you lose on the first two bets, plus $5.
At first glance, this seems like a pretty good system. But it has two problems.
The first is that you’ll eventually hit a losing streak where your next bet will be too high for your bankroll. It only takes eight losing bets in a row to get to the point where you’ll need $1280 to place your next bet. (The progression looks like this: $5, $10, $20, $40, $80, $160, $320, $640, $1280.) And remember—you don’t just need $1280 for the last bet. You’ve already lost $1275 by this point in your betting progression.
If you do win this $1280 bet, you’ll only be up $5, which means you’re making a large wager for a very small return.
The other problem is that even if you do have a sufficient bankroll to cover this kind of progression, all casinos have maximum bets. If you’re playing at a $5 roulette table, the maximum bet is probably $500 or $1000. So you’ll be unable to continue your progression.
You might be thinking, how often will I have a losing streak of eight in a row, though?
That answer is not often, but it will happen often enough to make sure that you’re not a long term winner at roulette.
So How Do You Win at Roulette?
Video Roulette Strategy
In the short run, the only way to win at roulette is to get lucky and walk away. In the long run, the only way to win at roulette is to get even luckier and quit while you’re ahead. The more you play a negative expectation gambling game, the more likely you are to become a net loser.
How To Play Roulette Strategy
Does this mean you shouldn’t play roulette?
That’s not our point at all. If you enjoy roulette, then play. Just don’t think you can make a living at it by using some mathematically bogus system or strategy. Earmark your roulette money as an entertainment expense. Then play as much as your bankroll allows until you’re no longer having fun.
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