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Roulette,
Online Roulette |
Some
Advanced Strategies To Try
Advanced strategies start with one of the nine types of bets
you can make and manipulate them in a way to improve your chances
of winning. We call these advanced strategies simply because
they take a little more practice or expertise with the game
than the 12 basic strategies outlined in the last chapter. The
strategies listed here are perfect examples. Many of the betting
systems you will discover are variations of the nine types of
bets discussed earlier.
Most of these advanced roulette strategies try to give the player
an edge by covering more numbers. Even some knowledgeable roulette
players have made the mistake of thinking they are actually
increasing their odds of beating the game by covering more numbers.
In reality, covering more numbers does absolutely nothing to
increase the player's odds of winning long term. When considering
any one isolated spin, then obviously if you cover 24 of 38
numbers you have a better chance of winning on that one spin
than you do if you only cover six of 38 numbers. However, over
the course of a normal session, covering 24 of 38 numbers will
have no effect at all.
For this example, let?s forget the 0 and the 00 and work with
the 36 numbers on the board. If you cover six of the 36, the
odds of your number being hit are 1 in six. Theoretically, one
of your numbers will win every six spins of the wheel. You will
win on one and lose the other five bets on that spin. On five
spins you will lose all six bets. So, out of six spins of the
wheel you would win 35 chips and lose 35.
Covering more numbers will increase the odds that one of your
numbers will win on a particular spin, but it also increases
the cost of winning. For example if you cover half of the board,
18 numbers, one of those numbers will win every other spin in
a perfect world. In two spins of the wheel you will win 35 chips
and lose 35. The net effect of having more numbers covered,
over time, is no greater than playing with fewer numbers covered.
Here are some strategies built on the basic strategies outlined
earlier in this book, but covering more of the wheel or board.
The double dozens or double columns: One of the ways you can
bet in roulette is either on series of 12 numbers (dozen) or
on one of the columns of numbers. In either case, you are betting
on 12 numbers or 1/3 of the number on the board. This is not
counting the 0 and 00. Betting on either a column or a dozen
is a 2:1 outside bet or you have a chance of winning slightly
less than 1/3 of the time. The double dozens or double columns
take this strategy one step further.
Choose either the dozens or the columns. Bet on two. For example,
if you are betting on dozens, you will place chips on two of
the dozens. This might be the number series 1 ? 12 and 13 ?
24. It might be the first and last dozen or the second and last
dozen. It doesn?t make any difference. Whether you play dozens
or columns will probably depend upon where you are sitting at
the table. If you are sitting along the side, you will probably
bet dozens. If you are sitting at the
end, it will be easier for you to play columns. Bet the same
amount on each dozen. You now have two thirds of the board covered.
The ball should now land on one of the numbers in your two dozens
slightly less than two thirds of the time.
Lets say you bet $5 on each dozen. You have made a $10 bet.
The ball lands on one of the numbers in one of your dozens.
You win at 2:1, or $15. The other dozen lost, so you lost that
$5. You had $5 invested in the winning bet and $5 lost, so out
of the $15 you won, so your net is $5. At least a third of the
time you can expect the ball to land on one of the numbers that
you do not have covered. If the game were perfect statistically,
you would break even. You would win two out of three times.
Your winnings would offset your losses. If you run into a long
series of losses, or you happen to lose at a statistically greater
rate than this, you begin digging a hole that is going to take
an abnormally greater number of wins to allow you to climb out.
This isn?t even considering the casino advantage that only increases
the level of loss. So, just playing double dozens or double
columns will eventually make you a loser.
To make a profit with this method, we have to refine the strategy
so that when you win, you are winning greater amounts than your
losses. Popular versions of this strategy call for adding a
progressive betting method to this strategy. This might be combining
this strategy with the Martingale or a version of the Martingale
to yield a progressive betting method.
Straight-Corner-Split. This strategy requires that you bet on
a combination of straight up bets, splits and corner bets. Straight
up bets pay 35 to 1. Split bets pay 17 to 1. Corner bets pay
8 to 1.
Here is an example of how you might use this strategy. Select
one of the numbers in the center column surrounded with other
numbers (5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29 and 32). In this example
you are going to use 5. First, bet straight up on the five =
1 chip. Next bet the corners covering (1,2,4 & 5), (2, 3,
5 & 6), (4, 5, 7 & 8) and (5, 6, 8 & 9) = 4 chips.
Now, bet the four splits (5 ? 2), (5 ? 6), 5 ? 8) and (5 ? 4)
= 4 chips. You have now invested nine chips, in some fashion
covering nine numbers. Theoretically you now have a 9 in 38
chance of hitting one of your bets ? slightly less than one
fourth of the time.
This strategy is incorporated into some betting systems. A system
may play one or more of these series, covering more of the board
with each spin. There are also systems that use this betting
method and add progressive or Martingale-like methods a series
of wins and losses.
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