Can you play roulette systems for profit? Well of course the conventional answer is no as the house edge forbids it. But the same can be said of progressive betting systems. One could argue that they don’t work but yet to say that progressive betting systems are useless is clearly wrong. Progressive betting systems have clear strategic uses which can be highlighted very clearly in blackjack. These betting systems can be used to disguise card counting and shuffle tracking activity.
A similar concept applies with roulette systems, the dynamic changes considerably with online casinos and especially when you consider sign up bonuses. This puts you ahead theoretically straight away. So in this instance system betting assumes even more power. Imagine how the dynamic would alter if a land based casino gave you $1000 just for joining but said that you had to play 5 days a week and place $2000 in total action to get your $1000.
This isn’t quite the situation with online casinos but it isn’t far off. In fact there have been all sorts of variations placed on the Martingale in the past. One such variation was in allowing dud bets to start the sequence. Let me explain, a dud bet is a bet that is not made but which actually begins a sequence of bets. I am still not making sense here but let us say that there is a 200/1 minimum to maximum ratio on a particular roulette table. The minimum was $5 with the maximum being $1000.
A losing sequence would look like this…$5, $10, $20, $40, $80, $160, $320, $640 and the next bet takes us over the maximum. Bet number nine and we are now at the end of the sequence and we are now losing money or we have to abandon the system and “gamble”. Eight consecutive losing bets happens roughly once in very 170 spins. This may be a long way from the “impossible” scenario that you had imagined.
But let us say that you wanted to back high numbers but instead you let the first three losing “bets” on high numbers go by without betting. With the previous sequence then you would be having to place $40 on the fourth spin of the losing sequence. But seeing as you didn’t place anything on the first three spins then the bet on the fourth spin is $5 and not $40.
This means that the chances of reaching the maximum are substantially less at around once in every 1200 spins or so. It also means that you will lose profit on the first three spins when you happen to have won but the trade off is that you don’t reach the maximum as often.
Carl “The Dean” Sampson
