How To Win At Roulette Table Every Time
Every time you lose, you simply double your bet. In theory, this means that you will recoup your losses and secure a small profit when you eventually win. 1 Choose a roulette table with a low minimum bet and a high maximum bet. Roulette is a game that can be comp hustled under a specific set of circumstances. Roulette hustling relies on deception and misdirection. The first criteria, is that you must find a full table. By full I mean that you have ideally have to wedge yourself in to play.
The answer is no, but you can definitely improve your chances with the following tips:
- Find a Single Zero (European) Wheel:cuts the house advantage in half
- Get a Playing Partner:A friend or relative to play with you as a partner
- Playing Techniques: Ways for players to manipulate the casino comp system
- Avoid Playing Systems: the Martingale and d’Almbert systems were designed to get a players dollars
FIND A SINGLE ZERO ROULETTE WHEEL
This is an important first step in beating Roulette. The single Zero Roulette reduces the house edge from 5.26% to 2.63%, this gives the player a very good starting position. However, if the player can find it, the rare French Roulette wheel gives the player the best possible starting position with an advantage of 1.35%. The following chart gives the exact percentages for the American, European and rare French Wheel.| Bet Name | Winning Spaces | Payout | American Roulette | European Roulette | French Roulette |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 35 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Double Zero | Double Zero | 35 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Straight Up | Any Single # | 35 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Row | 0, Double Zero | 17 to1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Split | Any two Adjoining Numbers | 17 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Basket | 0,1,2 or Double Zero, 2,3 or 0. Double Zero,2 | 11 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Street | Any 3 Horizontal Numbers | 11 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Corner | Any 4 Adjoining Numbers in a Block | 8 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Top Line | 0, Double Zero, 1,2,3 | 6 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Six Line | Any Six Numbers From Two Horizontal Lines | 5 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| 1st Column | 1,4,7,10,13,16,19,22,25,28,31,34 | 2 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| 2nd Column | 2,5,8,11,14,17,20,23,26,29,32,35 | 2 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| 3rd Column | 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36 | 2 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Odd | 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35 | 1 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Even | 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36 | 1 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Red | All Red Numbers | 1 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| Black | All Black Numbers | 1 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| 1 to 18 | 1-18 | 1 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
| 19 to 36 | 19-36 | 1 to 1 | 5.26% | 2.70% | 1.35% |
The next tip is to find a playing partner to go in cahoots with to swindle as many comps as you can from the casino.
How To Win Casino Wheel Every Time
PLAYING TECHNIQUES
The playing techniques aspect is where the players gain their edge. Roulette is a game that can be comp hustled under a specific set of circumstances. Roulette hustling relies on deception and misdirection. The first criteria, is that you must find a full table. By full I mean that you have ideally have to wedge yourself in to play.The best time to play is weekends, holidays, big event days or at the very least a weeknight. Decide how you and your partner will bet, in a offsetting manner. One of you can play red and one can play black. Or one can play 1-19 and the other 20-36, one play even one play odd. The idea is to offset the losses with wins by the other party. Next bet a large amount on your first 3 off setting spins. 50 dollars is great 100 dollars is awesome.
Here the pit bosses will label you as a high-level player and rate your play as such. Your comp offers will reflect your level of play and you’ll be offered rooms, food and show tickets. After that, reduce your denomination to 25 or 15 dollars and then only one out of every 4 spins. Since roulette is the only game where players can fiddle with their chips constantly, it is easy to pull back your chips prior to the dealer saying “no more bets”. Place your chips out on the felt constantly moving them around and then pull them back. Since the table is crowed there will be a lot of motion over the felt and no one will notice or care if you pull your chips back. Try to play with the action. If a few players are playing the outside bets with green or black chips place your bets next to theirs using the same chip denominations and pull back after a few seconds. There is multiple people playing and no one in the pit is paying attention so you will get credit for this play.
Every once in a while (1 in 37 times) the ball will land on the single zero. But with the reduced bet frequency the amount that the player will earn in comps between the two players will greatly surpass the amount of the loss. And the player will have beaten the game consistently.
AVOID PLAYING SYSTEMS
Playing systems were designed by casino owners to get their players money and should be avoided always. The Martingale system is far and away the most popular betting strategy known to recreational players. This is not because it is effective. It's because it is such a straight forward and simplistic system to apply.Over the years there has been dozens, and possibly hundreds of variations on the Martingale system. All of these variations orbit around the central idea of increasing the bet after a loss. In most cases the system is applied to games of chance that have a near 50-50 win to loss outcome, such as the Roulette black and red bets.
The traditional Martingale system simply doubles the next bet after a loss is attained. When a win is achieved the cycle begins anew. For example if the player starts with a 1 dollar bet and losses the first bet, the next bet would be 2 dollars, and if the player loses that bet the next bet would be four dollars. If that bet is won the cycle begins at one dollar again. This approach dictates that the player will win the largest bet of each betting cycle.
The d’Alembert betting system has characteristics similar to the Martingale in that the player increases or decreases their next bet dependent on the outcome of the previous bet. The d’Alembert betting system is popular among players who want to keep the amount of their bets and subsequent losses to a minimum.
The betting progression is very simple: After each loss, you add one unit to the next bet, and after each win, one unit is deducted from the next bet. Starting with an initial bet of 5 units a typical betting sequence would like the following:
- Bet 5 and lose
- Bet 6 and lose
- Bet 7 and win
- Bet 6 and lose
- Bet 7 and win
- Bet 6 and win
- Bet 5 and lose
- Bet 6 and win
SUMMARY
The idea of comp hustling is to make the casinos think you have lost more money than you actually have. Some additional hints for making the casino think you are a losing player is to “rat-hole“ chips. This means placing chips preferably 25 dollar chips in your pockets as inconspicuously as possible over the course of play. This again gives the illusion that you are losing player. Be sure to be very nonchalant about this, you don’t want noisy croupier who will rat you out to the pit boss. Regardless of what they say, losing players ALWAYS get more stuff. So the more you look like a loser, the better off you are going to be, and that’s how you can win at Roulette everytime.Roulette is one of the most popular table games in modern casinos. Although variations on the game have been around for several hundred years, there are now only 3 variations in American casinos.
You’re likely already familiar with American roulette and European roulette. The most recent addition to the table game inventory is Sands Roulette.
Which of these games should you play?
How should you bet on them?
What’s the smartest strategy for roulette betting?
I’ll explain all that in this post:
What Are the Differences between American, European, and Sands Roulette?
Although these games have a few other differences, the most significant distinction between the 3 versions of roulette are the number of green slots the wheels contain.
Every roulette wheel has at least 37 slots.
36 of those slots are always numbered 1 to 36, and they’re alternately colored RED or BLACK.
The additional slots are green.
In European roulette there is only one green slot, the “0”.
In American roulette there are two green slots: “0” and “00”.
In Sands roulette a third green slot, “S”, has been added to the wheel.
The green slots are there for one reason:
They make the game’s statistical probabilities uneven.
This is because of the way roulette bets are paid off. You can win anywhere from 35-to-1 (for betting on a single number) down to 1-to-1 (for betting on 18 slots at a time).
The payoffs, called “odds”, are not as fair to you as the actual estimated probabilities of the roulette ball landing on any given slot. This is how the casino makes its money.
In a game of roulette the house should keep at least 2.70% of all the bets players make over time. The casino has no need to cheat the players. In fact, the players often make really bad bets that improve the “house edge”, as that casino profit is called.
One of the other differences between European roulette and both American and Sands roulette is that the European roulette table has an additional betting area. This secondary betting area is used to place specially designed bets. They are more complicated than the normal bets made in American and Sands roulette. I’m going to ignore this section of the table, because I’m going to show you how to place bets that have the best chances of paying off.
Is There a Winning System for Roulette?
Everyone who gets into roulette sooner or later starts to think about how they can “beat the system”.
I’m going to be honest here:
There is no way to do that.
The green slots on the wheel make it impossible for anyone, anywhere, to ever design a betting system that is guaranteed to win. If you really want to guarantee yourself a win every time, then put a chip on each of the 2-to-1 outside bets and on each of the green number bets.
How To Win At Roulette Table Every Time Table
That’s the only way you’ll be paid money every time the wheel spins.
You’ll also go broke.
You may have heard about a system called the Martingale System. It’s a popular betting system with new roulette players.
Experienced roulette players just turn their heads and roll their eyes when someone mentions the Martingale System. The only way you can make money with the Martingale System is to write a book about it and get people to buy your book.
Even that’s a gamble, though, because most people now know that the Martingale System promises more than it delivers.
Here’s how this system works:
You start out betting the minimum. If you lose, you double your bet. If you win on your doubled bet, you go back to betting the table minimum. If you lose again, you double the size of your bet again.
This sounds great to inexperienced bettors but the problem is that you’ll either run out of money or hit the table limit before you can recoup your losses as they add up.
The Martingale System is a sucker bet, plain and simple.
Every betting system in every form of gambling tries to leverage probability theory. The Martingale System and other roulette betting strategies also rely on probability estimates.
But there’s a flaw in the thinking behind these systems. If you account for the flaw you’ll be okay. You won’t always win but your expectations will be more reasonable.
The secret to not going broke when you gamble is to set reasonable expectations and maintain your self-discipline. You should never drink or take drugs when you gamble. They lower your inhibitions and impair your judgment.
You might as well just hand your money over to the casino at the cashier window and say “keep it” if you’re going to drink or do drugs when you gamble.
How Do Probabilities Work in Roulette?
Probability theory came out of statistics. It tries to give us rules by which to guess what happens next in any situation. The guesses are seldom accurate predictions. Sometimes the guesses work out, and sometimes they don’t. Gamblers love probability theory because they think it helps them pick the best betting strategies.
You’re actually more likely to double your money during a roulette session if you put all your money on a single bet. The more bets you place, the less likely it becomes to double your money.
That’s because every bet brings you close to the long term expectations. The closer you are to the short term, the more likely you are to get better than expected results.
In roulette, the probabilities are simple. The dealer spins the wheel and releases a ball that whirls around the outside of the wheel and finally settles in a slot. With only 37 slots on a European roulette wheel you have a 1-in-37 probability of the ball landing on a specific slot.
This probability never changes.
This probability is calculated on the basis of all the known possibilities.
What probability theory cannot do, however, is predict where the ball will stop.
Nor can it predict whether the ball will land on red, black, or green any number of times over the next 100 spins.
Nonetheless, a lot of gambling guides tell you that you have the best chances of winning if you do this because of such-and-such probabilities. And many of these guides warn you that there is no way to predict the future, but by setting the expectation that the ball will land on red about 47% of the time, these guides are making predictions and promises they cannot keep.
They’ll even back up their claims by talking about how to run computer simulations for 1 million spins of the wheel so that you see how often the ball lands on red, black, or green.
In the real world the Probability Fairy is always on vacation. She’ll never be there to wave her magic wand to make things happen the way experts say they should. The ball could land on red over the next 20 spins. Or it could land on black or green or some random mix of color combinations.
You have no way of knowing how many of the next [X] spins will turn out a certain way. Talking about probabilities in this way is just dishonest.
What you can do is look at the wheel and ask yourself how much it costs to bet on the largest possible set of numbers. The idea here is to get as much coverage as you can without losing money too fast.
But even if you cover every number on the wheel you’ll lose money.
So the only way to win in roulette–and this is completely random, never guaranteed–is to bet on less than all the numbers on the wheel.
You also want to play bets that pay better than even money. You can place a variety of bets, but most of them aren’t worthwhile.
Betting on single numbers is a bad idea. You can place bets on the lines between the numbers (these are called “street bets”) and on lines at the corners of numbers (these are called “corner bets”).
But even though you get pretty good odds (payoff) you’re still covering too few numbers.
How Bets Work in Roulette
Divide the bets into two groups:
- Inside bets
- Outside bets
Inside bets are based on individual numbers or small groups of numbers. When you see players betting on the lines, corners, and individual numbers on the table they are making inside bets.
Outside bets are based on pre-selected groups of numbers on the wheel. The “2-to-1” bets cover 12 numbers each: 1 to 12, 13 to 24, and 25 to 36. The “1-to-1” or “even money” bets cover 18 numbers each:
- Odd
- Even
- Black
- Red
- 1 to 18
- 19 to 36
The bets more likely to pay are the even money bets.
But unless you can win 5 times out of 9 on even money bets you’ll lose your stake. That’s the problem with roulette. You always have to win at least 1 more time than you lose no matter how you place your bets.
The “2 to 1” bets pay better than the “1 to 1” bets because they cover fewer numbers. You have less of a chance of winning.
There are 6 types of “2 to 1” bets:
- 3 kinds of dozens bets: (1 to 12, 13 to 24, and 25 to 36)
- 3 kinds of columns bets: ([1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34], [2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32, 35], [3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36]).
You can make a bet by betting on any two of the “2 to 1” groups. That means that instead of covering only 18 numbers you’ll be covering 24 numbers.
This type of bet is often called the “double dozen” bet. It’s popular among gamblers who like to hedge their bets. They have a better chance (all other things considered) of scoring a win with a “double dozen” than with one of the standard even money bets. If you’re playing it safe and going for even money odds, you should always play a double dozen bet.
If you want to bet more aggressively, then instead of betting more money on your double dozen, you can cover all 36 of the red and black numbers. Leave the green numbers alone. Yes, they’ll come in every now and then, and you’ll lose money.
But there’s a way to keep your losses low.
How to Bet on Columns or Dozens Aggressively
Take 6 chips and distribute them across EITHER the three dozen bets or the three column bets.
Place 3 chips on 1, 2 chips on the 2nd, and 1 chip on the 3rd. If the ball lands on a green number you’ll lose your entire bet, so always play the table minimum with this aggressive style.
If the ball lands on any number with your single chip bet, you’ll win 2 chips and lose 5–for a net loss of 3 chips (half your bet).
That’s the safest way to bet aggressively on the table.
If the ball lands on any number in your 2 chip bet you’ll win 4 chips and lose 4 for no loss. This keeps you in the game.
If the ball lands on any number in your 3chip bet, you’ll win 6 chips and lose 3 for a net gain of 3 chips. This will offset 1 single chip win.
The way this betting strategy works out, your money can grow substantially and still take some big hits. Where the strategy will fail you is when the ball lands on green or if the ball lands on the single chip bet more often than it lands on the 3 chip bet.
Sorry, but there’s no way to prevent that from happening.
There Is No Guaranteed Way to Win in Roulette
I can’t say this often enough:
You can’t win at roulette in the long run.
I think roulette is a fun game to play. It’s exciting because you don’t know where the ball will land. You take an active role in making your wagers.
And you’ll find there are a lot of different betting systems to experiment with. The only thing that is guaranteed in roulette is that the casino will make a profit. What you hope for is that they make their profit at someone else’s expense.
Players who try to improve their luck by making big bets do sometimes win, but most often the people who come out ahead are the patient players who use conservative betting strategies and take money off the table. If you only walk away with your beginning stake you’ll be luckier than most gamblers.
And you can take that to the bank.