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Roulette instead of poker?
Roulette is a good alternative if you get tired of playing Internet poker. It’s not a very challenging game, but it’s a lot of fun, and there are actually a few things you can do to improve your chances of winning (and minimize your losses), no matter if you’re playing at a live high stakes casino or at no deposit casinos online.
1. Systems Don’t Work
Systems like the Martingale System, where you double your bet every time you lose, don’t work because the house is a controlled environment. In the first place, the online site has a nearly unlimited ability to book your bets, whereas you are limited by your bankroll. Secondly, the site will place a cap on betting maximums to protect themselves in case you do have an effectively unlimited bankroll. Let’s say you bet $25 on red and lose. You then bet $50 on red and lose again. You bet $150 on red to try to get even and black comes up a third time. Confident that black could not possibly come up four times in a row, you bet another $225 to get even. Black again. Black would only have to come up ten times in a row for you to be down thousands. Could this happen? Easily. Although given enough time the number of blacks and reds will even out, in the short term there could be streaks of 10, 20, even 100 blacks or reds in a row, no matter how unlikely that may seem. Since there is often a $500 limit on how much you can place on any one bet, a bad streak will quickly outstrip your ability to double yourself back even.
2. European Roulette Wheels Are Better
Finding a European wheel is the best roulette strategy. There are 36 numbers on a roulette wheel and a winning number pays off at 35-to-1. Since those are the odds of any one number out of 36 actually coming up, the game seems like a push. However, those odds do not account for the presence of zeroes on the wheel, which is where the house gets its edge. European wheels have one zero. American wheels have a 0 and 00. Twice the zeroes means (roughly) twice the edge. Stick to wheels with one zero.
3. Look for Surrender Rules
On an American wheel with surrender, half your even money bet (black/red, odd/even) is returned to you if the ball lands in a zero space. On a European wheel with “En Prison,” your even money bet is imprisoned on a zero spin, and is returned to you if you win on the following spin.
posted by CarmenSinCity at
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
6 Comments:
I hit on a roulette game once. Put my money on number 31 and it came up! Unfortunately I had only bet one dollar.
During the afternoon downtown there were even roulette tables that would play .50 cent minimums.
I saw one guy playing his system that he said worked. He would place the same amount bet on two of the three columns at the end of the table. They pay 2 to 1. So, say he bet $1 on the first and $1 on the second column and the spin was a number in the 2nd column he would win $2 for that column and lose the dollar on column one. That would be a $1 dollar profit.
Then he'd place a $1 bet on column two and $1 on column three. Each time he'd move his bet to the winning column and the column to the right .. or back to column 1 if the winning column was number three.
Did that make any sense? Anyway, I watched him for about a half hour and he was up a little. I don't know how much he was betting but it was probably only 1 or 3 dollars at a time.
There were also a couple of dudes who said they were math majors at UCLA and they were trying to create some formula using past winning numbers. They lost though. hahaha
December 18, 2007
The only safe bet I know of is on higher taxes.
December 19, 2007
Yay! I understood this post in its entirety! No crazy poker slang to throw me off! LOL! I'm lame...I know!
Why was I under the impression that online gambling was illegal in the US?
I like playing Roulette around 3AM. It's the easiest game...just slide your chips onto the table. No picking up heavy cards or tossing dice down a 90 foot table...or thinking much at all for that matter. LOL!
December 19, 2007
i watched a lot of roulette at mandalay last week just because i was curious. i watched people hit a lot, mostly on the lines and corners. it's just so random. i thought about betting on red or black based on what was coming up, but like you said, a lot of reds or blacks can come up in a row and you can be down a lot of money very easily. i watched that happen too.
December 19, 2007
In my compulsive gambling days in Vegas I hit a number with a black chip on it twice. Now that's exciting. But the most excitement I ever had at a Roulette wheel was early one morning in Paris. I surrounded the 14 with green chips. It hit. So I left the greens that were out there and added a few. It hit AGAIN. Good LORD! So I put even MORE green chips around it and that goddamn number hit FOR THE THIRD TIME IN A ROW! I was beside myself with joy. There's very little doubt that by the end of the day another casino (or 10) had all those winnings, but at least I could say I hit a number 3 times in a row. So I got that goin' for me... which is nice.
December 19, 2007
Another quick roulette story has to do with poker as well. I made a quick 500 at a roulette wheel. Then I went over to a poker table where a drunk idiot was running his mouth. First hand, I grab a pair of 8's. I raise it 3 times the blind or so. Drunk guy says, let's see how serious you are, and raises it around 10 times the blind. I go all in. He laughs and scoffs and calls. My 8's take down his AQ and I rake $600. I tell him I don't know much about this game, I'm a roulette player (a lie, of course, but i knew it would chap his hide). He scoffed about it and started to even get a little mean, at which point I took his money and went to bed. lol. Silly drunks.
December 19, 2007
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