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Strategy 1 – You pick a Dozen, any of them, and you bet on it with £1 (you can scale down to 10p if you like and divide the numbers below by 10). Then if you lose, you use the following betting sequence until you win: 1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 6 – 9 – 14 – 21 – 31 – 47 – 70 – 105 – 158 – 237 – 355. The most popular bets on the roulette table are Red and Black, this is especially the case in online casinos. Our list of roulette strategies is quite long so what we’re going to do here is list all of the different systems that are aimed towards Red and Black betting. Strategy 1 – You pick a Dozen, any of them, and you bet on it with £1 (you can scale down to 10p if you like and divide the numbers below by 10). Then if you lose, you use the following betting sequence until you win: 1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 6 – 9 – 14 – 21 – 31 – 47 – 70 – 105 – 158 – 237 – 355.

We include the Triple Martingale System here, but with a huge health warning. This is a very risky strategy, and you should treat this system with “kid gloves”. Be very careful. If you are more risk averse (or should we say sensible), there are plenty of other low risk roulette system options out there to try, like the 2 Up 2 Down strategy, for example

This is an even more aggressive system than the Martingale (which is in itself risky) and even the Super Martingale.

Many people play the even money outside bets on the Martingale- and that’s because you are better off covering a larger % of the table if you are playing riskier systems- it’s just common sense.

In the Triple Martingale, you are going ot be covering even more of the table, playing the columns or dozens typically (although you can play it on the even money bets).

Just like the Martingale, you increase your bets after a loss to try and claw back losses (it’s a negative roulette progression), but you increase them at a faster rate.

In the Martingale you use the following betting profile: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128. You double your bet after a win.
In the Triple Martingale, you triple your bet after a loss, so the progression goes:

1, 3, 9, 27, 81, 243.

It’s pretty clear that this is a steep curve- bets ramp up quickly (and all to claw back losses) so this is not for the risk averse.

To counteract this aggressive profile, you will be covering more of the table, so instead of covering half of the table as you typically would in the Martingale, you are going to be betting on 24 numbers (say 2 out of 3 columns or 2 out of the 3 dozens bets). You decide how you are going to cover 24 numbers, just make sure that you don’t overlap and you are betting on just under two thirds of the area on the wheel.

Hopefully, this is going to mean that you will expereince smaller sequences of consecutive losses. Of course, this is roulette, so you might be really unlucky and hit the table limits after a sequence of losses. This system is also known as the Cubic Martingale for obvious reasons.

If one of your numbers comes in, you’ll be paid out 2:1 So say you bet 1 on each column (total 2), you’d get £2 back, plus your winning bet- £3, in other words. So you would make a profit of 1 on a £2 investment.

Lets say you lost. You’d be £2 down. In the next round, you bet £3 on each dozen (for example). If you win at this stage, you would get £6 back, plus your winning bet- so £9. So you would have made a profit of £3 on the second spin (remember, you have lost £3 on the losing column). Overall, again, you would be £1 up when you take in to account the £2 you lost in the first round.

And so on…….

You can also use the Triple Martingale on the even money chances of course, but we would advise against this. There is a possibility of you hitting the table limits playing the standard Martingale- there is a very strong possibilty that you would hit them playing the Triple.

If you do want to increase risk, you can also play roulette street bets. 8 street bets gives you a coverage of just under 2/3 of the table of course, the same coverage as 2 columns or 2 dozens bets. So you could bet 7 as a halfway house between playing 2 dozens and the even money bets like red or black.

We’d advise you to stick with the 2/3 coverage (or just under- remember there is a zero).

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As with the Martingale, another way that you can hedge against hitting the table limits and thus being unable to claw back losses, is to start your progression off low and give yourself ample room to soak up consecutive losses. Of course, then it takes a while to grind out a profit, so it’s a balance. The higher the table limits, the more aggressive you can be at the start (but the riskier the system).

It is still a possibility that the ball will land 6 times consecutively in the 35% of the table you have not covered. Another reason to keep your sessions short, and bet as if you had an uncomfortable seat. The longer you spend at the table, the more likely you are of seeing one of those dreaded runs of consecutive losses. Try and avoid them.

Quote from a Las Vegas gambler: “I hope I break even this week. I need the money.”

A roulette wheel is divided into 38 sections, numbered from 1 to 36, 0 and 00. 18 of the sections numbered from 1 to 36 are black and 18 are red. The sections 0 and 00 are green.

You can bet on individual numbers, combinations of numbers, or colors, before the wheel is spun, by placing chips in appropriate sections on the betting layout

The wheel is spun by a casino employee, who then spins a ball along the wheel in the opposite direction. The ball comes to rest in one of the 38 sections, which then becomes the winning section. Players who bet on the winning section are paid off accordingly. For example, a winning bet on #17 pays 35 to 1 odds. A winning bet on red sections pays 1 to 1 odds, or “even money.”

What happens to the roulette gambler in repeated play?

Since the chance is 18 in 38 that the winning section will be red, the “law of averages” states that in repeated play red will come up an average of 18 times in 38 spins. Similarly, #17 will come up, on average, once in 38 spins. So if you repeatedly bet $1 on red, on average, you will win 18 times and lose 20 times in every 38 bets, for an average net loss of $2 per 38 spins = $2/38 = $.053 (5.3 cents) per bet. Likewise, since the chance is 1 in 38 that #17 will be a winning section, the law of averages states that in repeated play, #17 will come up about once every 38 spins. So if you repeatedly bet $1 on #17, on the average you will win once and lose 37 times in every 38 bets, for an average net loss (taking into account the payoff odds) of 35x$1 – 1x$37 per 38 spins, or $2/38 = $.053 per bet.

For bets like this, the player will eventually lose at the rate of 5.3% of all money bet and casino will make a 5.3% profit.

Are there any strategies that circumvent the casino’s 5.3% profit margin (sometimes called the “House Edge”). Consider the “double-down” strategy:

• On the first bet, wager $1 on red. If red comes up, you win $1. Quit.
• On the 2nd bet (if red didn’t come up on the first bet): Double your bet and bet $2 on red. If red comes up, you win $2, covering your $1 loss on the first bet and leaving you a $1 profit. Quit.
• On the 3rd bet (if red didn’t come up on the first two bets): Double your bet and bet $4 on red. If red comes up, you win $4, covering your previous $1 and $2 losses and leaving you a $1 profit. Quit.
• Etc

By the laws of chance, eventually red has to come up, at which point you quit a winner!!!

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Is there anything wrong with this strategy?

Unfortunately:

All casino games have a house limit. If you encounter an unlucky streak of losses, the amount you need to bet may exceed this limit, thus causing you to not cover your losses.

Most people have a limit. If you encounter an unlucky streak of losses, the amount you need to bet may exceed this limit, also causing you to not cover your losses.

Although unlikely, if red fails to come up 15 times in a row, on the 16th bet, you must wager $32,768 in an attempt to come out $1 ahead. Most casinos will not allow such a bet.

Alas, it turns out that the double-down strategy, although deceptively appealing, is no different from other roulette bets: In the long run, the gambler will still lose at the rate of $.053 per dollar bet.

It should be noted that the double-down strategy says to quit as soon as you win. What does it mean to quit? Does it mean that as soon as you win your dollar you never come back to the roulette table again? Or does it mean to go have a drink and then start over? For most gamblers, it means the latter. Sadly, if you quit forever, you wouldn’t be a gambler anymore.