Adopt These Eight Truisms
Forget the past. In Roulette and Online Casino
Roulette the past is in no way associated with the present
or the future. You cannot predict the outcome of a future event by
what has happened during past events, even if you believe you have
detected a pattern. Each game is a separate event. Just because the
ball landed on Red a dozen times in a row does not mean that it is
likely to land on Red the next time. There are no patterns to the
game.
Single progression systems do not work. You cannot beat the wheel
by progressions alone. You also cannot beat the Roulette
or Online Casino Roulette wheel with even money bets.
Don’t listen to others. Sometimes other players and even the
croupiers will offer advice on how to bet. Don’t listen. Don’t
listen even if the other player seems to be winning.
Wheels are not biased. Sometimes you will hear about biased wheels.
Casino wheels are carefully constructed, balanced
on a regular basis and climate controlled. While it is possible a
Roulette wheel may warp or go out of balance, it
is not likely and if it should happen, it will be quickly caught and
repaired. Even if you do find an unbalanced wheel, your wins still
will not be assured. Biased Roulette wheels, where
you can make a killing, are just another urban myth.
There have been a few dedicated players with the patience to spend
time "clocking the wheel". Basically this entails recording
thousands of consecutive spins of a single Roulette
wheel in order to determine if there is any kind of mechanical bias
that may cause certain numbers to appear more than others. This normally
requires at least two or more players working as a team and monitoring
a Roulette wheel around the clock for an extended
period then analyzing hundreds of recorded spins to find out where
the bias lies if indeed there is any bias at all.
There used to be several professional teams that engaged in this activity
some of which were pretty successful. Probably the most noted team
was a group of 13 players that won around $250,000 from a Casino
in Monte Carlo back in the 1960's. There was even a book written about
their exploits entitled "Thirteen Against The Bank". Apparently
they recorded spins of several Roulette wheels for
days on end to determine which ones they wanted to play. Then when
they did attack the Roulette wheels, they used a
reverse Labouchere. In other words, instead of crossing off numbers
in a series when they won, they crossed them off when they lost and
added them when they won.
It should be noted that in more recent years, finding a biased Roulette
wheel has become very difficult indeed. Casinos do
regular maintenance on their Roulette wheels and
check them for any possible bias. Any wheel found not performing according
to rigorous standards is immediately replaced.
Roulette wheel technology has steadily improved also
and today's Roulette wheels are remarkably balanced
and true. A few years ago mechanical biases were more likely to affect
spin results because the frets that separate the numbers were taller.
Also, the ball that is most often used today is lighter and has more
action than previous versions.
It is estimated that it takes up to 3,700 spins to definitely identify
a true bias. Because of the time and effort needed to gather the information
coupled with the fact that truly biased wheels are very rare these
days, in my opinion, it just isn't practical to search for biased
wheels. Few players have the time and patience to log and study that
many spins.
Dealers cannot shoot the ball wherever they want it. There are stories
about dealers who can consistently put the ball in one area of the
wheel through a combination of the way the wheel is spinning and how
they shoot the ball. This is theoretically possible, but the only
way that it could happen would be under very controlled conditions.
The casinos make sure that this is not possible under casino conditions.
If it were possible, the risk of dealers being in collusion with their
friends would be too great a risk for the casinos to bear.
Similarly, there is also the belief that dealers
develop "sealer signature" through constant repetition.
Supporters of this idea maintain that dealer spins will begin to
group up in certain sections of the wheel or move across the wheel
in a discernible fashion. This is supposedly a result of something
called "learned muscle response" or "repetitive muscle
response". A couple of very expensive roulette systems are
based upon this and even many experts believe this approach has
merit. Serious study has been conducted on this topic and the results
are that this does not happen. Dealer signature is another gambling
myth.
Shallow pockets. The pockets in roulette wheels are shallow. As
the ball slows down, it bounces along the side of the wheel. Its
forward momentum bounces it from one pocket to another until it
slows to the point that it comes to rest in a shallow pocket. This
increases the randomness of each spin and its outcome. 21 in ill
wins and the highest average payoff with each win.
You will lose more often than you will win. With the odds so high,
you have to accept that you are going to lose more often than you
will win. If you cannot develop the mental toughness to accept that
in the long run you are going to win more often than you are going
to wshould choose another game.
To win at roulette, you have to adopt a betting strategy and money
management system that wgive you two things – the greatest
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highest average return, over time, regardless where it lands on
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Even/Odd 1 18/38 47.37% -2/38 -5.263%
High/Low 1 18/38 47.37% -2/38 -5.263%
Dozen 2 12/38 31.58% -2/38 -5.263%
Column 2 12/38 31.58% -2/38 -5.263%
Six Line 5 6/38 15.79% -2/38 -5.263%
Corner 8 4/38 10.53% -2/38 -5.263%
Street 11 3/38 7.89% -2/38 -5.263%
Split 17 2/38 5.26% -2/38 -5.263%
Straig ht 35 1/38 2.63% -2/38 -5.263%
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