An honest and balanced Roulette table offers players a completely random game of chance in its truest form. Every single game played has an outcome that is as random, and unpredictable as the game before. Any strategy that claims to have a guarenteed formula to winning should always be recieved with sceptisism and caution. It is simply not possible to predict with any degree of accuracy the outcome of a roulette spin.
That being said, there is evidence to suggest that Roulette strategies can, and often do provide invaluable playing tips for roulette fans. Many of the roulette strategies published on the internet contain small but often very important elements that if taken into consideration when playing roulette can influence betting patterns to reduce losses over a long period of time and quite possibly help deliver a profit to players that understand these principles.
One of the most common things that these strategies agree on, is that there are betting positions on a roulette table that offer rewards with a reduced element of risk. Both the Martingale Theory and the Three Chance System both agree and base their strategies around playing the Red and Black sectors of a roulette table. Both strategies offer solid logic in playing these two betting positions on a roulette table and provide players with several gambling options to enhance the roulette gaming experience.
But as mentioned above, a true and balanced roulette table is nearly impossible to predict. As with any game of chance, there will be times when lady luck shines and the wins come thick and fast, while at the same time she may be smiling on someone else and those wins may be few and far between, the key is to maximising the potential from those times she is on your side, while minimising those losses when she is not.
If a player feels a strategy is an absolute must, then an article found on the internet provides one of the most logical and sensible Strategies any recreational player needs. It simply read “When your winning, bet hard, when your losing, bet the absolute minimum”.
One of the most ambitious Roulette strategies is the Three Chance Strategy, also known as “Lucky Lucky”, the Rollercoaster, and the Let it Ride System.
The basic betting patterm for this system is the use of the 1:1 sectors of the roulette betting table. Red/Black are the prefered betting positions of many players that adopt this strategy, but some users of the Martingale System have been known to implement elements of this system during profitable betting sessions.
1:1 or even money sectors on a roulette are awarded because the likelyhood of those betting sectors winning are substantially higher than other sectors. This provides players with an opportunity of placing a bet, that has an almost 50/50 chance of doubling the bet amount placed. The Three Chance Strategy utilises this theory in quite a clever way.
A player using the Three Chance Strategy will more than likely focus betting on the Red or Black sectors of the roulette table. It is usual for a player to pick one or the other colour and place all future bets on that one colour. If a bet loses, the player using the Three Chance Strategy will simply bet the same amount again, on the same colour. However, if a bet wins the player implements the Three Chance Strategy. After a winning bet most players would remove the chips from the table and place another bet. The player using this particular strategy will instead leave the amount wagered, and the winnings paid by the croupier on exactly where they are, If being practised in a real casino it is quite possible to hear a player shout “Let it Ride” to the croupier and onlookers. If that bet loses, the player would then return to his original bet amount and start again. If the bet wins the player would again leave all monies exactly where they are and play for a third chance of winning.
The concept behind this strategy is that although the player is wagering three times the amount he initially wagered, it has only cost that initial bet to play. If the player wins he will have a substantial profit from the cost of a single wager. If the player loses the third bet, the amount lost from the player bankroll is only the amount wagered on the first bet of the sequence.
The Three Chance Strategy appears to be an adaptation of elements of the Martingale Thoery, and is based on sound mathematical logic in that rewards are maximised from a minimal outlay.
The Relaxed Roulette System is a variation of another roulette strategy that aims to cover as much of the betting table as possible while minimising betting costs with the goal of achieving a small but regular influx of winning games, and profit.
The Relaxed Roulette System is respected as one of the more logical strategies and offers players that adopt the strategy small but regular wins that will eventually build into noticeable profits.
The strategy itself is a simple one. The focus of this strategy is the 12 number sectors(1-12,13-24,25-36) of the table that pay 3:1 odds for the win. The strategy is simply to place a bet of equal amount on two of the three sectors that cover the “12s”. This gives the player a 3:2 chance of winning each betting round. As you have no doubt worked out already, If you place two bets of £1 and win on your first go, you will have made a £1 profit. The strategy goes on to suggest that if a specific wins two consecutive games in a row, regardless of whether your bet was in that sector or not, you should refrain from betting that sector in the next game, and opt for the other two instead. On the ocassions where your bets do not win you should place your next bet on the same two sectors as before, unless the sector you did not bet on has had two wins in a row. This strategy can be played for as long or as short a period as desired, as long as the player recognises and adjusts to the winning and losing sectors as and when required.
Mathematically, this strategy has more logic to its workings than any other strategy we have reviewed. Admittedly the profits possible will be earned at a much slower rate, but player losses will be substantially less also. Many online roulette players adopt this strategy when trying to clear a casino bonus, as it is more likely that a player using this strategy can maintain a playable bankroll for a lot longer than perhaps a player using the pivot system.
The Shower Roulette Strategy is one of the most labour intensive strategies designed to date. The preperation for the use of this specific roulette strategy takes almost as much time as the actual playing of roulette, but offers substantial rewards if the preperation has been undertaken correctly.
The theory behind the Shower Roulette Strategy is very similar to the Pivot system, in that users of both strategies believe that winning numbers can be predicted based on information collected from previously played games.
The Shower Strategy requires a potential player to monitor at least four seperate roulette tables. This could be tricky if you are in a real casino but quite easy if you are using one of the many online casino websites that offer Roulette. The monitoring of the four roulette tables is so that the player can note down every winning number from each of the four tables for no a total of sixty games. The strategy requires that each table plays the exact same amount of games as the other, so as to provide an equal amount of data. Once this information has been collected the player must then identify a table that has shown groups of numbers that are closely bunched together or connected on the roulette table that repeatedly won over the last sixty spins. This table then becomes the target of heavy betting on and around those grouped numbers for a total of 30 spins, which will potentially win the player substantial sums of money, depending on the specific betting patterns adopted.
The shower Roulette Strategy is one of many hybrid theories that have modified and implemented elements of other successful strategies. This particular strategy uses elements of the Pivot system, in that the collecting and recording of previous wins provides information to suggest future betting patterns, and elements from the James Bond strategy that targets groups of connected numbers on the roulette betting table.
The Pivot Strategy is a betting system used when playing roulette that requires the use of information collected for previous games played on the roulette table the strategy is being used on. The priciple being that the probability of any given number winning on a roulette table might not be as randon as the laws of physics and probability suggest, In theory, every number on an honest or balanced roulette table has exactly the same chance of winning as any other. However it is the fundamental basics of this thoery that the Pivot strategy questions in its practice.
Use of the pivot strategy requires the player to note every single win of previous games and identifying numbers that appear to be winning more regularly than the fixed probability odds would suggest is normal. As a rule, the chance of a single number winning more than once is 38:1 as there are 37 sectors on a roulette wheel that probability says have an equal chance of winning over 37 spins. The pivot Strategy assumes that any single number is most likely to win within 24 spins of the last time the ball landed on that number. This gives the player using the Pivot strategy an extra 13 spins worth of added value to each bet placed.
Use of the Pivot strategy requires the player to make a list of all the recent winning numbers from the roulette table being played. To identify numbers that appear to be winning more frequently than others and to bet on those numbers as soon as they are identified, in the belief that those same numbers will more than likely win again within the next 24 spins.
If a winning number is identified, it is believed that the number wagered upon will land again within the 24 spins considered the norm if using the pivot theory, but also knowing that probability suggests the same number is likely to win within 38 spins. This gives the strategist added value in that, if the pivot system proves correct they have made a 35:1 win in less spins than probability suggests, however if the win comes after the 24th spin but before the 35th spin the winning margin is smaller but will over all provide a profit.
The pivot strategy plays only on single number bets giving odds of 35:1 and is considered as one of the more risky strategies used by roulette players, the long term success of this strategy has led to much debate by other strategies that consider probability and mathematics as the basis for a successful roulette strategy.
The most popular and most commonly known roulette strategy is the Martingale probability theory. This strategy is without doubt one of the most successful strategies adopted by many roulette players, and in practice is one of the easiest to remember.
As with any game of chance there is much discussion into the validity or success of any formulated betting plan as opposed to totally random betting. The most discussed strategy is the Martingale probability theory.
This strategy adopts a system that focuses entirely on even money, or 1:1 paying sectors of a roulette table. These odds are very short as the likely hood of winning on these sectors is almost 50/50. The rewards for playing these sectors is minimal but so are the potential losses over any given gambling session.
The player initially places a bet on Red and continue to do so until the ball landed on Black. At this point the player would double his original bet on Red.
The idea being that doubling the bet after each loss would eventually recover the lossed incurred from previous bets and at the same time win an amount equal to the first losing bet.
In thoery this strategy is one of solid grounding, as it is almost certain that at some point, the wager made will be a winner.
This is, in theory, a solid principle but for two aspects. If said player were to double up every losing bet he might eventually face two situations that would flaw the strategy to a point of being unable to progress. Many Casino’s have table limits, this strategy may find itself in a situation where doubling the bet exceeds the table limit and therefore is no longer able to continue. A second and more likely situation is that the player cannot afford to double his bets any further or simply runs out of money. Adopting the Martingale theory has shown profitable results in the past but many believe the Martingale system has no long-term mathematical advantage over randomly placed bets.
An interesting strategy being use by many roulette players is the Labouchere Roulette Strategy. This strategy is more commonly known as the cross-out system as its basic workings requires the crossing out of the betting strategy as play progresses. This strategy has no mathematical or logical foundation, but is still considered one of the most successful strategies being used today.
The principle workings of the Labouchere Roulette Strategy require the player to prepare a list of numbers prior to starting play at the roulette wheel. This sequence of numbers can be as few as 4 digits, or infinitely as long as the player wishes. There is no set formula that dictates how long the sequence should be, only that there should be an even number of digits in your list. Each number represents a monetary amount that is to be wagered on the roulette table during the use of this strategy. An example of such a sequence can be seen below:
Random Sequence: 362513
The use of these numbers, and therefore the practice of using the Labouchere Roulette Strategy, works as follows – you must now assign a monetary amount that is to be wagered at each round of betting. Be aware that the amount of each wager will depend on the sequence above and assign an amount you are comfortable betting. For the purposes of this example we will assign each unit at £1. For the purposes of this strategy we will use the short sequence of numbers given above as an example. Simply take the first and last digit from the list and add them together. In this case we have the numbers 3+3=6. We have assigned a monetary amount of £1, so our first wager will be £6. This bet is to be placed on any sector of the roulette table offering 1:1 odds or even money. If your bet wins you simply cross out those two digits from your list and move to the next two numbers, which in our example are 6 and 1, and repeat the same formula as before.
If however your bet does not win you simply follow the exact same procedure as your last wager, but add the sum of the last losing wager to the amount to be bet. If the last wager had won, your next bet would be £7, if we follow the same formula, but because the last wager did not win we must add the sum of the last wager to this one, which would make our next wager £13. In its simplest form, this strategy relies on two key factors. If your bet wins, cross out those numbers, If your bet loses, add the last bet to the next one.
Using this strategy can be expensive to play, but as the sequence progresses the possible rewards increase substantially, giving a high probability of a substantial win during the course of any given sequence.
Many, if not all roulette strategies rely on mathematical equations, laws of probability or a formula based on the success of a well documented winning streak. One of the most popularly used roulette strategies found its creation from a scene in a James Bond movie.
Fleming's character is seen playing roulette in a very luxurious casino. Mr Bond proceeds to place three bets on the roulette table, and is seen to repeatedly win increasingly large sums of money.
As a result of this single scene, strategists and mathematicians have devised a simple yet effective roulette strategy that is designed to cover as much of the betting table as possible to maximize winning potential, using only the minimum of bets placed.
One of the most common bets used when implementing the James Bond Strategy is to place a bet on the 2nd 12 sector that covers the numbers 13 to 18, another bet is placed on the high numbers sector that covers numbers 19 through to 36, and a final bet placed on the ZERO. Looking at this bet in more detail, you have covered every number from 0-36 except for the numbers 1-12. You have in effect placed a bet on 2/3rds of the table with a substantial chance of either A) breaking even, or B) potentially winning as much as 5:1 on your 13-18 bet. There is also the chance that the Zero lands for a substantially larger windfall.
We have included an image of this betting pattern to give a clearer and easier to understand idea of how this strategy works. As with any game of chance it is possible that this strategy may or may not be profitable for short lengths of time. Although the strategy is sound in its logic, players using this strategy must always take into consideration that any game of chance has an element of good or bad luck involved.
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