Gambling is taking a risk of losing something of value on an unpredictable outcome. When you gamble at either an online or land based casino both you and the casino take a risk in losing something of value. The risk is greater for you because the casino only offers games that provide a statistical advantage to the casino.
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However, much statutory and some case law has been devoted to ensuring that casinos and players don’t cheat each other by subtly altering the conditions of gambling games without each other’s knowledge and permission. You can, though, change the terms of the game. The casino often provides a way for you to do this.
But should you take the offer?
There are two things you need to understand before you can start improving your chances of winning when you gamble. First, you can change the outcome of a gambling game. Second, you will almost always confuse yourself if you try to do the math. These two most common of gambling mistakes help the casinos earn tens of billions of dollars every year.
How You Change the Outcome in a Gambling Game
Many casino gambling games allow and even encourage players to change the stakes, the odds, and even the percentage chances of winning. Here are a few examples of how you can change the outcome of a gambling game (almost always for the worst).
Say you are playing a slot machine game and you win a prize on a spin. A special “Gamble” button lights up. You are now prompted to play a secondary game, maybe betting on the outcome of a virtual coin toss, using the prize you just won as the stake in your new bet. This is an exciting feature. It also means you are risking the loss of what you just won on a game with a better “edge” for the casino.
Most slot games have a theoretical return to player above 75%. Games developed after 2010 usually have better than a 90% theoretical return. The RTP is an estimate of how much money would be retained by a hypothetical player who spun the reels continually for a period of several years. It’s not a realistic estimate of how much money you will win, lose, or hold on to. It’s a statistical measurement used to gauge how friendly the game is to the gambler.
In a coin toss the theoretical return to player is 50% or 1 in 2. So let’s assume you just gambled $5 on a spin in the basic slot game and that you won $10. You have doubled your money. Now the “Gamble” light activates and you are invited to take your $10 and bet it on the outcome of a coin toss. And suppose the “Gamble” feature allows you to wager on the outcome of two concurrent coin tosses. Now you have a choice: bet on 1 coin toss for a chance to double your $10 to $20 or bet on 2 concurrent coin tosses for a chance to quadruple your money.
Your chances of winning the double concurrent coin toss are 25% or 1 in 4.
You would have a better chance to keep your $10 prize and just spin again on the basic game. By taking the “Gamble” challenge you improve the casino’s chances of winning your next bet. It’s like paying $5 for a quarter of pie at one restaurant and then paying another $10 for an eighth of a pie at a different restaurant. Are you really getting a better piece of pie at the second restaurant?
In the game of blackjack if the dealer offers you insurance most experts tell you not to take it. Why? Because you are betting that you will lose your basic wager. The chances of being correct (that the dealer has a blackjack) on your insurance bet are worse than the chances that you can beat the dealer’s hand (your original wager).
The bottom line here is that casinos will sometimes offer you ways to change your stakes and your chances of winning to their own benefit. If you want to win at gambling, don’t take the deal behind door number 2. Stick to your original game and be consistent. Let someone else win the goat.
How to Confuse Yourself at Any Gambling Game
There is a certain idea among gambling experts that comparing the “house edge” in various gambling games helps you to make informed choices. The edge is a theoretical return to the casino, the complementary percentage for the theoretical return to player. In other words, in every form of gambling, there is only a 100% allocation of money. Gambling does not generate new wealth; all gambling does is pool wealth between the bettors and redistribute that wealth between the bettors (and sometimes also a middle man).
In the 1-on-1 game of blackjack there are only 2 bettors in your game: you and the casino. The casino is willing to pay up to the full amount of your bet if you win. It’s an even money match up, and that is really what makes blackjack so profitable for a casino. They risk less per round than they do with, say, roulette or a slot game. But if you have been reading blackjack tutorials you should know by now that the house edge is lower in blackjack than in other games, and therefore you have the best chance of winning in blackjack.
In fact, the dealer has a better chance of coming out ahead because at a busy table the dealer is playing multiple hands at once by the most conservative of rules. In other words, the casino is taking less risk per round in blackjack than the players while at the same time multiplying its chances of winning.
Players make mistakes when playing blackjack. Blackjack dealers don’t have to make hard decisions. In fact, by always going last the dealer often doesn’t have to make any choices at all. The players make most of the decisions in blackjack. And yet blackjack remains profitable for the casinos. The casinos are profiting from player mistakes.
Players make several types of gambling mistakes. One of the most common mistakes is to confuse the probability of winning with the theoretical return to player. The probability of winning is limited to the next round of play. The theoretical return to player is an estimate of what all the players of a game will collectively receive over the life of a specific game (or an arbitrarily large number of rounds in the game).
The rule of thumb is that the more rounds played for a given game the more the actual results of that game will average out close to the theoretical return to player (or the house edge).
But what are the chances of your drawing a natural blackjack on the next deal? What are the chances that the dealer will not win against you on the next deal? These are probabilities that can be computed on the basis of how many cards are left in the shoe, less the cards that have already been played. Those probabilities change as more cards are played but they rarely if ever line up with the theoretical return to player.
The mistake players make is assuming that the house only has a 2.5% chance of winning the next round. The dealer’s chance of winning that next hand can be as high as 100% and as low as 0%. The house edge is always irrelevant with respect to any individual round played on any gambling game from keno to slots to blackjack to baccarat.
When you gamble, it’s nice to know how much money the house is expected to retain over the next 30 days but that won’t help you predict how much you win or lose in any of the next 10 rounds of play.
Expert gamblers like to calculate probabilities but probabilities do not predict the next round’s outcome. The roulette wheel always has a 1 in 37 or 1 in 38 chance of landing on any given number. The chance that the ball will land on number “7” 100 times in a row remains 1 in 37 or 1 in 38. That never changes (allowing for truly random spins, although the laws of physics mandate that the spins won’t be completely random).
On the other hand, what is the expected probability of a random spin of the roulette wheel producing “7” 100 times in a row? This is where you multiply your individual spin probability (1/3x) by itself the number of times in a row (100 in this case). The expected probability of the wheel hitting “7” 100 times in a row is 1.51296e-157 (a very, very small number). But that low probability has no bearing on the probability of the next spin.
This is the dichotomy of probability theory, where you are dealing with large sequences of independent events. The expected probability does not mean you cannot or will not see the unlikely outcome. In this hypothetical example, we are simply computing how many possible outcomes there are and assuming the chances of producing the same result 100 times in a row are equivalent to a certain percentage of those possible outcomes.
Unfortunately (even semi-) random events have a way of defying the probabilities. But if someone offers you 100-to-1 odds that a roulette wheel will land on “7” 100 times in a row, verify their ability to pay and take the wager. They lose as soon as a different result turns up before the 100TH spin.
The bottom line here is simple: don’t try to do the math like an expert. Random chance will always eventually prove the experts wrong.
What You Must Do to Improve Your Chances of Winning
Here are a few basic rules for improving your chances of winning when you gamble.
- Stop second-guessing yourself.
Every casino game offers you a fair chance of winning. The games, when played fairly and legally, pay prizes that correspond to the expected probabilities of given outcomes, although casinos will hold back a little bit extra in most games to ensure they make some money. Hence, in roulette, the most you can win is 36-to-1 instead of 37-to-1 or 38-to-1.
The odds are always stacked against you. But random chance favors the fool, as the old saying goes. You just cannot guarantee you are the fool upon whom random chance showers its favors.
- Take the least possible risk.
In a hypothetical game where you win 100 rounds out of 100 rounds, you will kick yourself if you only wager $5 on each round for the chance to win $5 instead of wagering $100 on each round for the chance to win $10,000 on each round.
In reality, positive thinking doesn’t work when you gamble. The more you assume you could win the more you are likely to lose when you do lose.
Risking less does mean you win less per round but that’s okay.
- Manage your money so that you play as many rounds as possible.
You are more likely to win back $100 in wagers if you divide them into twenty $5 wagers than if you divide them into five $20 wagers.
Instead of playing numbers games (which is second guessing yourself) or assuming you will win a certain number of times (which is taking more than the least possible risk) you should assume you are going to lose more rounds than you win. When you play slots or even a modest keno game (like a 5-pick) you can still come out ahead when you play more rounds with small wagers than fewer rounds with large wagers.
But how does playing conservatively work in blackjack, when the average prize is an even money bet? If you lose only 49% of the rounds in blackjack you lose. Okay, smart guy, you know you need to double down a few times. Instead of playing numbers games and assuming you can lose X number of hands and double down on Y hands, just accept that once in a while you’ll have to double down to improve your chances in blackjack.
When should you double down? The experts agree that if the dealer is showing a 5 or 6 and you have an ace and anything less than a 7.
You don’t need to double a lot as long as you can double enough to come out ahead.
- Don’t try to win big.
That’s the real fun in gambling, though, isn’t it? You want to win the jackpot, hit the long odds, and outwit the dealer at every hand.
Going for the big win is the worst possible way to gamble. You may not be playing all-or-nothing but you are playing too much.
Still, you can adjust the amount of your wagers upward if you are doing well. Just keep them proportionate to your bankroll.
- Use a consistent percentage ceiling in your wager to bankroll ratio.
Although it is prudent to limit your initial wagers to 5% of your original bankroll, at some point you may double or triple your money. Does it make sense to continue playing by the original 5% measure?
Most gamblers will feel confident enough to increase their wagers. But while it’s usually good advice to ignore all betting systems when you gamble (because each has its flaws), you can set a limit of “5% of your current bankroll down to half”, meaning you gamble with $5 bets until you lose half the money you came in with.
If you double your money then you can double your wagers as long as you don’t go above 5%.
Five percent is not a magic number. You can set the percentage at 1%, 5%, 15%, or even 20%. You should be consistent about not going above your percentage. You still have the flexibility of making larger wagers if you roll up your money.
- Divide Your Bankroll At Certain Split Points.
This technique works best in land-based casinos, especially when you can put your money into tickets that are easy to carry around. A split point is a multiple of your bankroll. Say you begin gambling with $200 and you roll that up to $400 at the craps table. Now take half your money and put $200 of it into a ticket.
You can continue playing craps with the remaining $200 or you can try another game. When you roll up your second $200 to $400 again you split the money into another ticket plus money to play with.
After you have 3 or 4 tickets you can rotate them. Never play a ticket all the way down. Leave at least a few dollars on it so you can leave the casino with some money (and a little dignity).
When you gamble online it makes some sense to shift money from the game balance back to your main account. As long as you have money in your game account you should be good. It helps you to stay focused on conservative betting if you take money out of the game when you get ahead of your original bankroll.
- Play with Casino Bonus Money Whenever Possible
Land-based casinos may not offer you signup bonuses but many online casinos do. Play conservatively with the casino bonus money to increase your chances of fulfilling your wagering requirement with just the bonus money. While that won’t always happen the longer you can delay putting your own money into the game the better the chances you’ll start winning.
You can try this strategy with the “no deposit” welcome bonuses some casinos offer but they do limit how much credit they extend to you. You have more bonus money to work with when you accept a deposit match bonus.
- Stick to the Basic Game.
Whether you play slots, craps, roulette, or blackjack the less complicated you make your game the less likely you’ll place dumb bets.
The casino is counting you to make dumb bets. You should count on the casino to be less than generous with its odds on the best most likely to pay off.
There are few progressive wagers that are worth the money. The more you throw into a round the harder it will be to recover from a loss.
In craps bet on Pass or Don’t Pass and play the odds but keep it simple.
In blackjack bide your time and don’t split every time you get a pair of cards of the same value. Should you really split two 5 cards when you’re showing 10 on the table? Should you split two tens? Two nines? You have three options: play the basic game, double down, or split. On some tables you may be able to surrender if you don’t like the dealer’s cards but look at the strength of your cards first and your options for splitting second.
- Assume the free games are more generous than the paid games.
When you have a chance to “try before you buy” at an online casino the free game just may be slightly more generous than the paid version. There are several reasons why this might happen. If you can check the theoretical return to player for a free game and the paid version, look for differences.
Does the free game run on a different server? The different server may be using a different random number generator, a different random seed number, or a different estimated percentage for the theoretical return to player. Variations in all these things can affect the randomness of the outcome of the game.
- Play low variance games.
Sad to say, but the less volatility there is in the prize to wager ratio of a game the more likely it will pay you prizes. Volatility is an important measure for a casino because it needs to know how much cash to keep on hand. But you need to know how long you may have to play a game before you win a nice prize. That is where the variance comes into play.
Think of variance as “how much any random outcome of a game varies from the average expected outcome”. There is a relationship between variance and volatility (in fact, some gambling writers use these terms interchangeably). The casino cares more about the volatility and the player cares more about the variance.
How do you judge variance? It comes down to how long you can play the game with your initial bankroll. A low variance game has a tendency to take less of your money.
Hence, as noted above, you can affect the variance of the game in a limited way by playing conservatively and ignoring the extra bets the house offers.
Conclusion
Think of gambling as an endurance race between the bettors. Whoever can go more rounds wins the most money, unless random chance steps in and hands a big win to the individual gambler. Then gambling is more about who has the most self-discipline. The casino is playing a numbers game and just has to be there with enough cash on hand to keep the games going. The player has to have the wisdom and the self-discipline to walk away with the cash.
Harvard Medical School published a trove of data about online gamblers that was collected from 2005 to 2007 by an online casino (Bwin). Researchers who studied the data concluded that about 11% of gamblers were likely to win and that winners were more likely to play less frequently. Subsequently, researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Connecticut compared that analysis to their own analysis of data from a Native American casino’s database. The second study found that about 13.5% of the land-based gamblers were winners.
The good news for most gamblers is that fewer than 5% of them contribute about 50% of the casino’s net revenue, and about 10% contribute 80% of the casino’s revenue, so most gamblers are not big losers. That means approximately 80% of gamblers share the burden of about 20% of the casino’s net revenue between themselves. Given that most people cannot lose enough money (for lack of wealth) to drop into the lower 10% (the Big Losers) changing how one gambles increases an individual’s chances of moving into the upper 10%.
Gamblers with little wealth to lose should still learn to make better choices. You cannot guarantee you will win but you can always cut your losses short or take fewer risks. Gambling is more fun when it is just entertainment. If your losses amount to no more than what you would spend on other types of entertainment such as concerts and travel, then have fun.
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Play NowGetting Started with the Game of Roulette
In this part of my new all-in-one Roulette guide, I'll show you how to set up the game correctly to maximize your chance to win money at Roulette machines.
Important note: Roulette is a gambling game and, as such, it depends on luck. Also, the house advantage varies depending on the Roulette variant you play but it is never equal to zero.
Regardless of the strategies you follow, you can't win at Roulette every time you play. All you can do is to avoid placing wrong bets and focus always on those that offer you the best odds to win.
Also, if at any time you feel things are getting a little out of control, please make sure you take this quick test on gambling addiction. A little help goes a long way — trust me.
Despite what most people think, the key to winning at Roulette is to set up the game the right way and have everything ready before you play, not while you play.
This Roulette guide is divided into several different parts:
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- The before you play
- The while you play
- The betting strategies
Make sure you take all of them seriously because if you understand how to apply the tips I'm giving you here, then you'll know how to get your best shot to win money at Roulette if you gamble for real money — or free chips if you prefer the freeplay version.
All the online Casino sites mentioned on this article offer both free and real money Roulette games. The gameplay and the fun are exactly the same — so you should not feel like you have to play Roulette for real money if you don't want / can't afford to.
Furthermore, remember to play only for the fun of it. Roulette is one of the most exciting Casino games out there — and that's enough.
When you go online to win money on Roulette every time you play, you make a mistake. A devastating one, potentially.
So — focus on the fun, play for free if you want to, and keep in mind these tips to win a little bit more of your Roulette games.
Don't Rush: Check Out the Game First
This is the basic rule that all professional Roulette players follow: once you think you have found the right Roulette table for your games - let the Roulette wheel spin for a couple of times before you place your first bet.
You want to do this to learn more about the table and about the players that are already in the action.
It might sound unimportant but, when you play Roulette games at a brick-and-mortar casino, it's good practice to make sure you get along with the other players already in the game.
Stay away from the tables where people look aggressive, where gamblers bet too much, and where you feel too much alcohol is being consumed.
Those are clear signs that things might get heated anytime the Roulette wheel presents unfavourable results, and you don't want to be playing at the troublemakers' table.
Shenanigans aside, monitoring the action before the real money play begins is also a good practice to make sure everything is (or seems) fully transparent and legit.
Depending on where you play, a game of Roulette could be rigged or not fair - and it's important you learn to recognize these situations in order to avoid them.
How do you do that?
When you play online, just go for online Casino sites with the seal of an independent and international gaming authority like the United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) or the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA).
That certifies the fairness of the real money Roulette games, of the platform, and of the company that runs the business.
Practice Roulette Online for Free
Things are a little different when it comes to online Roulette because one or 100 spins will not give you any significant information about the others at the table and the fairness of the game.
However, this doesn't mean you should jump right in and bet all your money on a game you are not familiar with.
The best way to learn how to play and how to win at Roulette online is to start from the freeplay option that most Roulette sites offer.
This way, you can get familiar with the Roulette wheel, the table structure, the payout structure, and the personality of the live dealer - if you decide to go for the live variant.
Here's a short list of the best online Roulette sites that offer free accounts to play and practice:
Make sure you open a gaming account at least one of these Casino sites to practice Roulette online and learn how to win your games.
A freeplay account loaded with demo money is extremely useful if you are a Roulette beginner and you need to practice online to learn the differences between the betting systems I'm going to highlight in the last chapter of this guide.
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European vs. American Roulette
I understand this might sound obvious to most people but, in case you don't know yet:
Never play American Roulette games. Always choose the European variant.
To understand why you should only play the European Roulette games, let's look at the Roulette wheel. The only difference between the European and the American roulette is the order of the numbers on the roulette wheel.
The American Roulette has one additional pocket as the American Roulette wheel features a second green slot with a double zero.
Oddly enough, the two variants of the game feature the same payouts, meaning you will get paid 35-to-1 every time you nail the single right number. On the American Roulette wheel as much as on the European Roulette wheel.
What differs, however, are your chances to win money at the game.
The fact the European Roulette wheel features 37 slot means you have one chance in 37 to win every time you place a bet on a single number.
The odds get considerably worse if you decided to play on an American Roulette wheel since the second green slot brings them to one in 38 on each single number bet.
Given that both Roulette variants offer the same payout (35:1), your choice is pretty obvious. You should only play European Roulette games.
Now, to make things more comfortable for you, here's a list the most popular online games of European Roulette.
How to Pick a Winning Roulette Wheel
The last step we need to consider in the before you play section of this guide to winning at Roulette is the game's choice.
Now that you know you should always discard the American variant of Roulette, you need to learn how to choose the right European Roulette game to maximize your winning odds.
Don't let the word 'odds' fool you here:
All European roulette games offer the same winning chances - so there are no special Roulette games that give you more opportunities to win money than others.
What you need to pay attention to, as you get ready to play Roulette games with real money, are the table limits.
The limits represent the maximum and minimum bets allowed in the game and it's important you learn how to match them with your bankroll.
Most of the online games I included in the list above accept bets starting from €/£/$1 to €/£/$5, with these two being the standard in the industry.
If you are just starting with online Casino games and you are looking for ways to win at online Roulette, I suggest you start from the smallest limits and go for the 1-credit games.
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How to Win Your Roulette Games (Fingers Crossed!)
Now that you know how to choose the right games to play and you know that you should always avoid the American Roulette wheel let's see how you are supposed to behave once your money is on the table.
You got you chip stack; you found the table, you want to play…
…but how do you exactly win at Roulette!?
How Much Should You Bet on Roulette?
Assumed that you already know what are the table's minimum and maximum bets, let's tackle one of the most complicated questions about roulette: how much should you bet?
The size of your bets is connected to the size of your bankroll (the total amount of money you decided to invest in a session) and the minimum amount of time you plan to spend betting on the Roulette wheel.
An average Roulette wheel spins 40 times every hour so, if you decided to play for two hours, you need to make sure that you can survive at least 80 spins.
Important Note: Since the game of Roulette is a game of chance, all the calculations are always done as if you will not win a single game.
This way you can be sure your betting strategy will always be 100 percent effective.
Use basic Math:
80 spins at €1 per spin mean you will need €80 to stay at the table for two whole hours before your money is gone.
However, that's not how I play.
With a bankroll of €80 and a lower limit of €1, I place bets of between €5 and €8 on every spins as I combine the length of the games with my winning odds.
Here's how you can take your chances to win at Roulette doing the same.
You can combine this general Roulette betting rule with three more elements:
- Experience
- Betting Choices
- Betting Strategies
While I can't teach you experience (but the links to practice online Roulette for free are there for that), I can surely help you in choosing the right bets and adopting a good strategy that won't kill your bankroll.
How to Choose the Right Bets in Roulette
As I mentioned earlier, the single number bet pays 35:1 (35 times your bet PLUS your bet) and you have one chance in 37 to win.
So, is this really the best bet you can pick in a roulette game?
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Before we go any further, let me make something extremely clear:
This is a guide for beginners who want to know how to win at roulette or, even better, how to get the best odds and minimize the risk of placing losing bets all the time.
My focus is to show you how to maximize your chances to make money when you play. Not to give a fake system to win money on Roulette all the time or to teach you winning Roulette secrets that do not exist.
What I am about to describe might sound very boring to all those who play Roulette for the thrill of it and love crazy and expensive bets but - hey! I am here to help you play Roulette, not to find you an expensive alternative to Netflix!
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The best way to win money on Roulette (or to minimize the risk to lose money, if you wish) is to focus on the outside bets.
Although these Roulette bets do not lead to mind-blowing wins, keeping your bets on the odds/even, red/black, and high/low will give you the highest chances to score some cash.
These are by far the best bets in a game of Roulette and the only ones a beginner should focus on. The outside bets pay 1:1 but give you almost 50 percent chances to win every bet you place.
Forget your lucky numbers. Forget what 'you feel' will happen on the Roulette wheel.
Concentrate your bets on the options I just gave you. That is key to learning how to get your best winning odds when you play Roulette.
You Won Some Money: Now What?
If you are serious about winning money on Roulette, you need to treat your winnings as if they didn't exist and resist the temptation to add them to your bankroll.
In other words, you shouldn't bet the money you win.
Professional Roulette players handle wins in a very simple way: they cash them out.
You need to learn how to define a bankroll you can invest in your games before you place your first bet on the roulette wheel and stick to that amount.
If you start off with the €80 bankroll we described above, and you find yourself with €120, cash out the €40 and continue to play with the original €80.
It's easier than you think.
The more you do this, the more money you'll be able to set aside every time you win on Roulette.
This is going to be very hard as soon as your bankroll starts to look too-thin-to-survive - but that's exactly when it's imperative you keep your winnings separate from your gambling money.
Consider it like a saving account: it's good to have a backup when things don't go your way.
Roulette Betting Strategies
And now, let's go through the most advanced part of this guide: the Roulette betting strategies.
Being this an article for beginners who want to know how to win on Roulette, I am not going to go too deep on the subject.
Later this month, PokerNews will publish an intermediate strategy article where I explain all the details and nuances of the different Roulette betting strategies.
If you are and advanced player (e.g., you won $1,000 or more on Roulette — and not all in one night) and you are looking for an in-depth guide to give you Casino account a new boost, I suggest you wait for that.
But if all you want is an overview of the different betting strategies that can help you win on Roulette - here we go.
The Martingale Betting System
The Martingale Strategy is one of the most popular betting patterns in the world of gambling.
My guess? People love to follow the Martingale strategy when they play Roulette because they understand it immediately. Not because it works.
(Spoiler alert: it doesn't)
The basics are simple: each time you place a bet, and you lose, you should repeat the same bet but with 2x the money.
The Martingale is a guarantee if you want to break even since you only need to win once to cover even the ugliest of all losing streaks.
If you plan on betting on Roulette following the Martingale system, make sure you begin from the table's minimum bet - or you might be forced to deal with monster bets already after a handful of spins.
And those bets might get just too big for you to handle them.
The Grand Martingale Betting System
Another system many players use to beat the roulette is the Grand Martingale, a (pricey) variant of the regular Martingale Roulette system.
The Grand Martingale works exactly as the Martingale, but with on steroids: every time you double your bet, you also add an extra amount equal to your initial bet.
If you follow my advice on starting from the minimum bet, that means you are always going to 2x your losing bet + adding one more minimum bet on top of that.
Unfortunately, I am not rich enough to use it.
The James Bond Roulette Strategy
Also known as the beginners' favorite, the James Bond strategy is a combination of bets that give you the best odds of winning on Roulette.
To follow the James Bond strategy, you need to place the following bets on the same spin:
- €10 on the zero
- €140 on the 19-36 box
- €50 on the 13-18 box
What makes this the best strategy to win at Roulette every time? You only lose if a roulette wheel stops with the ball being on a number between 1 and 12.
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