| Many roulette systems really just slow your | | | | average, and lose $290 on the other 29 $10-bets. |
| losses. This one can win big money. | | | | This would result in a profit of $60 for every 30 |
| I saw a roulette system advertised on television | | | | spins, or about $80-per-hour on a "fast" table (40 |
| one night. What a joke! It was nothing more than | | | | spins per hour). It is boring betting the same |
| a money management system. It isn't a bad idea | | | | number every time, and a good "average" doesn't |
| to manage your bets and your bankroll when you | | | | mean you won't have nights where you lose |
| gamble, but if that is all you are doing, you just | | | | hundreds of dollars. I saw that gentleman who |
| slow your losses or rearrange them. After ten | | | | won $80,000 lose $500 some nights, but he stuck |
| years working in a casino and running a roulette | | | | with it and made his money. |
| table, I can tell you that money management | | | | It is important that the bias is great enough. This |
| systems do not make you a profit in the long run. | | | | particular player would play number only if it was |
| There is a roulette system that works, however. | | | | coming up 1-in-33 spins or more often (151 out of |
| It takes some careful planning and a fair amount | | | | 5,000 spins). His best number on one wheel came |
| of work. In fact, you may have to spend days or | | | | up once in every 29 spins, making him as much |
| even weeks tediously "charting" roulette wheels, | | | | as $100 per hour for his time, depending on the |
| which means writing down the numbers that | | | | pace of the game each night (with a $10 bet |
| come up on each spin. | | | | each time). |
| This work is boring, which explains why not many | | | | Why do roulette wheels have biases? Possibly |
| people are willing to use this system. That's a | | | | manufacturing imperfections, like a divider |
| good thing, by the way. Any system that is is too | | | | between pockets which is higher than others, and |
| easy will be over-used, and so stopped by the | | | | so "catches" the ball, causing it to fall on certain |
| casinos. For example, while working at a casino, I | | | | numbers more often than it should. A loose |
| watched a man make $80,000 over a period of | | | | divider could absorb the "hit" of the ball causing it |
| months using this simple system, and | | | | to drop right there rather than bounce off of it as |
| management didn't seem to care. Laziness, I | | | | it might normally do. |
| guess, or they were making enough money on | | | | There are other reasons for biased roulette |
| the other players to lose a few thousand back to | | | | wheels. Fortunately, you don't have to know why |
| this man every month. | | | | a wheel has a bias for this roulette system to |
| On the other hand, after I quit my job and came | | | | work. You just have to know the bias is |
| in to gamble, the wheels were repaired and | | | | statistically significant. That's why you track the |
| re-calibrated to eliminate any bias. More than one | | | | results of at least 5,000 spins, and possibly more. |
| regular winner apparently would have been too | | | | Any less and you may be betting on a false-bias. |
| much for them. You can see why systems which | | | | Without getting into the mathematics, think of it |
| are more difficult and therefore less-used can | | | | this way: Any ten coin tosses can result in seven |
| work for a longer time, and why you should keep | | | | heads or tails, but an unbiased coin won't ever |
| a low profile and not tell others what you are | | | | come up heads 7,000 out of 10,000 tosses. |
| doing. | | | | Of course, if you do notice temporary reasons |
| A Better Roulette System | | | | for biases, like a sticky pocket that had a few |
| Here is the system: Write down the results of | | | | drops of someone's drink splashed into it, you |
| 5,000 spins. See if there are any numbers that | | | | may want to watch to see if the wheel is |
| came up more than 151 times. If so, start betting | | | | cleaned. The reason most biases remain for a |
| on that number every spin. If not, try another | | | | while is that they are unknown or their cause is |
| wheel. That's pretty much the whole plan. | | | | unknown, and replacing roulette wheels is |
| Here is why it works. Roulette wheels sometimes | | | | expensive. Cleaning isn't. |
| have biases, meaning a number or numbers come | | | | Switching a couple wheels around is a cheap |
| up more often that they should by chance. | | | | solution some casinos use to thwart "wheel |
| Sometimes a number is spun frequently enough | | | | charters" as well, so memorize the wood-grain |
| to make money. If 18 is showing up one in 30 | | | | pattern of the wheel. That way you'll know if it |
| spins, for example, and you bet $10 on it each | | | | was moved or replaced. This roulette system |
| time, you get paid 35 to one when it hits, plus | | | | works only on specific wheels (those with specific |
| you keep your $10 bet. | | | | biases), so you need to know you are playing on |
| You would win $350 once for every 30 spins, on | | | | the same wheel each time. |