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Simple Roulette Betting System

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By Henry Tamburin

Roulette is a tough casino game to beat. It’s not like players haven’t been trying but it’s hard to overcome the casino’s built in 5.36% edge.

There is one thing you can do to cut the casino edge in half and increase your chance of winning – play roulette on a single rather than a double zero wheel, or, play roulette in Atlantic City where casinos offer the surrender rule.

The great majority of roulette systems attempt to use mathematics to beat roulette. And without knowing it, the system designer usually attempts to find a way around the mathematical certainty. Almost every roulette strategy makes the same mistakes. For example, on a European roulette wheel, there are 37 pockets, but the payout is unfair 35 to 1.

Single 0 roulette is available in several Las Vegas casinos including Stratosphere, Bellagio, Caesar’s palace, Wynn, and others (for a complete list go to the roulette page on ( http://www.gambling-systems.com/single-zero.html). When the roulette balls lands in the 0 or 00 pocket you lose only half your bet on the even money payoff wagers. These are wagers on the outside of the layout - red/black, odd/even, or the high/low numbers. By saving half your bet, the casino's edge is reduced from 5.26% to a more respectable 2.7%.

If you want to lower the casino edge even more you’ll have to buy a plane ticket to Europe. Casinos there offer single zero roulette games with the en prison rule which cuts the casinos edge to a low 1.35%.

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By the way here is how en prison works. If you make a bet on a red number (or any other even payoff bet) and the ball lands in 0, you will not lose your bet. The bet will remain on the layout for the next spin. If the next spin results in a red number winning your bet is taken 'out of prison' and returned to you (you only get your bet back and not any winnings). If a black number wins on the next spin, your en prisoned bet would be lost.

Is there other practical ways to beat the wheel? One way is find a bias wheel, which is a wheel that has some imperfections (like worn frets) that result in certain specific numbers or sections of numbers around the wheel to win more frequently than the odds predict. This takes a lot of wheel watching and tracking before you can validate that indeed you have found a statistically significant bias wheel. But, you can do what Frank Scoblete advocates and simply bet on the numbers that have been hitting more frequently than other numbers. The reason may be due to a bias and if so, you’ll cash in. If the result is just an anomaly, so what? You’ll only be facing the normal casino edge so there is no penalty for betting on numbers that hit more than others.

Sorry to disappoint you, but there are no betting or playing systems that can eliminate the casino’s edge on a wheel that has no bias. That includes all the different cancellation, Martingale, and other systems that you may have read or heard about. That’s not to say that all roulette playing and betting systems are bad. As long as you know going in that the odds are not going to change and you stay away from the “double-my-bet-till I win” type systems, they have the advantage of forcing a player to bet in an organized way. This is often better than a fanatic roulette punter who frantically places chips all over the layout till the last second without any rhyme or reason.

Here is a playing system that is fun to play and with a little luck, can be rewarding. It focuses on betting the dozens and it works like this.

First decide which dozen you want to bet on first (either the numbers 1 through 12, or 13 through 24 or 25 through 36). Let’s assume you start betting with one chip on the first dozen (numbers 1 through 12) and it wins. The dealer will pay you 2 chips as winnings. Take one of your winning chips and place it on the second dozen (numbers 13 through 24). Take the second winning chip and set it aside. Let the original one chip on the first dozen ride. You now have one chip on the first dozen, a second chip on the second dozen, and the initial chip bet set aside. In essence you used your profits to make the second series of bets, which covers 24 (or 63%) of the 38 roulette numbers and still have the initial chip you started with.

Let's now assume lady luck shines on you and the winning roulette numbers on consecutive spins are in the first and second dozen of numbers. You will progress your bet size following these wins as follows.

When you win the dealer will remove the one losing chip from one of the dozen numbers and pay you 2 winning chips for the other. Take one of your chips and put it back on the dozen numbers that just lost and set the second chip aside. Win again and the dealer will remove one chip and pay you two. Again replace the losing dozen number with a chip and pull back the second chip. From the last two winning coups you have two chips set aside. Take these two chips and add one to the first dozen and the second to the second dozen. You now have two chips riding on the first dozen and two chips on the second dozen.

If you win again you repeat the process. Keeps two chips aside and replace the losing dozen bet with two chips. Win again, and you increase your bets on the first and second dozen to three chips. After three more winning spins you increase your bets to four chips on the first dozen and four chips on the second dozen. The progression continues in the same manner: 4 consecutive wins then increase to 5 chips, 5 consecutive wins then increase to 6 chips, etc.

As you move up the betting progression you will be keeping part of your profits and using the rest to gradually increase your bet size. At any time that you lose both of your dozen bets on the same spin, you revert back to the basic one chip bet on the first dozen and start the betting progression over.

If you analyze this betting method you will see that it involves increasing your bets following consecutive wins, pulling back part of each winning bet, a predetermined organized method of betting (dozens), and decreasing your bet size following a loss so you will never be chasing your losses. It is a smart and patient way to play roulette. Just remember that when you get ahead, plan to walk away with your profits.

Will you break the bank with this roulette playing and betting system? Over the long run, no. Remember that this system, like all others for roulette, do not change the overall casino’s edge. What they will do is give you a shot at winning more money over the short run if you are lucky enough to hit on consecutive spins. And while you’re playing don’t forget to get rated. The cash and other freebies you’ll get back from the casinos will help reduce your overall cost of playing.

Roulette is one of the most popular table games in modern casinos. Although variations on the game have been around for several hundred years, there are now only 3 variations in American casinos.

You’re likely already familiar with American roulette and European roulette. The most recent addition to the table game inventory is Sands Roulette.

Which of these games should you play?

How should you bet on them?

What’s the smartest strategy for roulette betting?

I’ll explain all that in this post:

What Are the Differences between American, European, and Sands Roulette?

Although these games have a few other differences, the most significant distinction between the 3 versions of roulette are the number of green slots the wheels contain.

Every roulette wheel has at least 37 slots.

36 of those slots are always numbered 1 to 36, and they’re alternately colored RED or BLACK.

The additional slots are green.

In European roulette there is only one green slot, the “0”.

In American roulette there are two green slots: “0” and “00”.

In Sands roulette a third green slot, “S”, has been added to the wheel.

The green slots are there for one reason:

They make the game’s statistical probabilities uneven.

This is because of the way roulette bets are paid off. You can win anywhere from 35-to-1 (for betting on a single number) down to 1-to-1 (for betting on 18 slots at a time).

The payoffs, called “odds”, are not as fair to you as the actual estimated probabilities of the roulette ball landing on any given slot. This is how the casino makes its money.

In a game of roulette the house should keep at least 2.70% of all the bets players make over time. The casino has no need to cheat the players. In fact, the players often make really bad bets that improve the “house edge”, as that casino profit is called.

One of the other differences between European roulette and both American and Sands roulette is that the European roulette table has an additional betting area. This secondary betting area is used to place specially designed bets. They are more complicated than the normal bets made in American and Sands roulette. I’m going to ignore this section of the table, because I’m going to show you how to place bets that have the best chances of paying off.

Is There a Winning System for Roulette?

Everyone who gets into roulette sooner or later starts to think about how they can “beat the system”.

I’m going to be honest here:

There is no way to do that.

The green slots on the wheel make it impossible for anyone, anywhere, to ever design a betting system that is guaranteed to win. If you really want to guarantee yourself a win every time, then put a chip on each of the 2-to-1 outside bets and on each of the green number bets.

That’s the only way you’ll be paid money every time the wheel spins.

You’ll also go broke.

You may have heard about a system called the Martingale System. It’s a popular betting system with new roulette players.

Experienced roulette players just turn their heads and roll their eyes when someone mentions the Martingale System. The only way you can make money with the Martingale System is to write a book about it and get people to buy your book.

Even that’s a gamble, though, because most people now know that the Martingale System promises more than it delivers.

Here’s how this system works:

You start out betting the minimum. If you lose, you double your bet. If you win on your doubled bet, you go back to betting the table minimum. If you lose again, you double the size of your bet again.

This sounds great to inexperienced bettors but the problem is that you’ll either run out of money or hit the table limit before you can recoup your losses as they add up.

The Martingale System is a sucker bet, plain and simple.

Every betting system in every form of gambling tries to leverage probability theory. The Martingale System and other roulette betting strategies also rely on probability estimates.

But there’s a flaw in the thinking behind these systems. If you account for the flaw you’ll be okay. You won’t always win but your expectations will be more reasonable.

The secret to not going broke when you gamble is to set reasonable expectations and maintain your self-discipline. You should never drink or take drugs when you gamble. They lower your inhibitions and impair your judgment.

You might as well just hand your money over to the casino at the cashier window and say “keep it” if you’re going to drink or do drugs when you gamble.

How Do Probabilities Work in Roulette?

Probability theory came out of statistics. It tries to give us rules by which to guess what happens next in any situation. The guesses are seldom accurate predictions. Sometimes the guesses work out, and sometimes they don’t. Gamblers love probability theory because they think it helps them pick the best betting strategies.

You’re actually more likely to double your money during a roulette session if you put all your money on a single bet. The more bets you place, the less likely it becomes to double your money.

That’s because every bet brings you close to the long term expectations. The closer you are to the short term, the more likely you are to get better than expected results.

In roulette, the probabilities are simple. The dealer spins the wheel and releases a ball that whirls around the outside of the wheel and finally settles in a slot. With only 37 slots on a European roulette wheel you have a 1-in-37 probability of the ball landing on a specific slot.

This probability never changes.

This probability is calculated on the basis of all the known possibilities.

What probability theory cannot do, however, is predict where the ball will stop.

Nor can it predict whether the ball will land on red, black, or green any number of times over the next 100 spins.

Nonetheless, a lot of gambling guides tell you that you have the best chances of winning if you do this because of such-and-such probabilities. And many of these guides warn you that there is no way to predict the future, but by setting the expectation that the ball will land on red about 47% of the time, these guides are making predictions and promises they cannot keep.

They’ll even back up their claims by talking about how to run computer simulations for 1 million spins of the wheel so that you see how often the ball lands on red, black, or green.

In the real world the Probability Fairy is always on vacation. She’ll never be there to wave her magic wand to make things happen the way experts say they should. The ball could land on red over the next 20 spins. Or it could land on black or green or some random mix of color combinations.

You have no way of knowing how many of the next [X] spins will turn out a certain way. Talking about probabilities in this way is just dishonest.

What you can do is look at the wheel and ask yourself how much it costs to bet on the largest possible set of numbers. The idea here is to get as much coverage as you can without losing money too fast.

But even if you cover every number on the wheel you’ll lose money.

So the only way to win in roulette–and this is completely random, never guaranteed–is to bet on less than all the numbers on the wheel.

You also want to play bets that pay better than even money. You can place a variety of bets, but most of them aren’t worthwhile.

Betting on single numbers is a bad idea. You can place bets on the lines between the numbers (these are called “street bets”) and on lines at the corners of numbers (these are called “corner bets”).

But even though you get pretty good odds (payoff) you’re still covering too few numbers.

How Bets Work in Roulette

Divide the bets into two groups:

1. Inside bets
2. Outside bets

Inside bets are based on individual numbers or small groups of numbers. When you see players betting on the lines, corners, and individual numbers on the table they are making inside bets.

Outside bets are based on pre-selected groups of numbers on the wheel. The “2-to-1” bets cover 12 numbers each: 1 to 12, 13 to 24, and 25 to 36. The “1-to-1” or “even money” bets cover 18 numbers each:

• Odd
• Even
• Black
• Red
• 1 to 18
• 19 to 36

The bets more likely to pay are the even money bets.

But unless you can win 5 times out of 9 on even money bets you’ll lose your stake. That’s the problem with roulette. You always have to win at least 1 more time than you lose no matter how you place your bets.

The “2 to 1” bets pay better than the “1 to 1” bets because they cover fewer numbers. You have less of a chance of winning.

There are 6 types of “2 to 1” bets:

• 3 kinds of dozens bets: (1 to 12, 13 to 24, and 25 to 36)
• 3 kinds of columns bets: ([1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34], [2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32, 35], [3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36]).

You can make a bet by betting on any two of the “2 to 1” groups. That means that instead of covering only 18 numbers you’ll be covering 24 numbers.

This type of bet is often called the “double dozen” bet. It’s popular among gamblers who like to hedge their bets. They have a better chance (all other things considered) of scoring a win with a “double dozen” than with one of the standard even money bets. If you’re playing it safe and going for even money odds, you should always play a double dozen bet.

If you want to bet more aggressively, then instead of betting more money on your double dozen, you can cover all 36 of the red and black numbers. Leave the green numbers alone. Yes, they’ll come in every now and then, and you’ll lose money.

But there’s a way to keep your losses low.

How to Bet on Columns or Dozens Aggressively

Take 6 chips and distribute them across EITHER the three dozen bets or the three column bets.

Place 3 chips on 1, 2 chips on the 2nd, and 1 chip on the 3rd. If the ball lands on a green number you’ll lose your entire bet, so always play the table minimum with this aggressive style.

If the ball lands on any number with your single chip bet, you’ll win 2 chips and lose 5–for a net loss of 3 chips (half your bet).

That’s the safest way to bet aggressively on the table.

If the ball lands on any number in your 2 chip bet you’ll win 4 chips and lose 4 for no loss. This keeps you in the game.

If the ball lands on any number in your 3chip bet, you’ll win 6 chips and lose 3 for a net gain of 3 chips. This will offset 1 single chip win.

The way this betting strategy works out, your money can grow substantially and still take some big hits. Where the strategy will fail you is when the ball lands on green or if the ball lands on the single chip bet more often than it lands on the 3 chip bet.

Sorry, but there’s no way to prevent that from happening.

There Is No Guaranteed Way to Win in Roulette

I can’t say this often enough:

You can’t win at roulette in the long run.

I think roulette is a fun game to play. It’s exciting because you don’t know where the ball will land. You take an active role in making your wagers.

And you’ll find there are a lot of different betting systems to experiment with. The only thing that is guaranteed in roulette is that the casino will make a profit. What you hope for is that they make their profit at someone else’s expense.

Players who try to improve their luck by making big bets do sometimes win, but most often the people who come out ahead are the patient players who use conservative betting strategies and take money off the table. If you only walk away with your beginning stake you’ll be luckier than most gamblers.

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And you can take that to the bank.