Because of the pace and nature of the game of roulette then it is all too easy to spot what you think are trends and patterns with regards the numbers that arrive. This is no different than any other game like lotteries for instance. It is all too easy to see what are called “hot” and “cold” numbers and think that some numbers are due and others are not. What you have to remember is that when you sit down to play a game like roulette that the results that you are seeing are nothing more than a blip in time in what is a very long sequence of results both before you sat down at that table and all of the time after you leave.
This is a vast amount of time but when you are considering that certain sequences taken over miniscule sample sizes are showing something that isn’t real then you have the makings of a problem. Let us look at a particular wheel that has been in existence for 2 years. In that time it has be used to spin 30 times per hour for 10 hours a day and 364 days per year. So in that two year period then it has seen no fewer than 218,400 spins.
During that sequence there will no doubt be huge swings in terms of how many reds come over blacks, high number over low numbers……in short there will be huge swings in all of the available bets that you could have had. So let us say that you sat down after exactly 100,250 spins and noted down the numbers of 100 consecutive spins. You may think that this is a large sample size when in actual fact it is a miniscule sample taken from something that you cannot see and this is a far greater series of numbers. This is why players get tricked into seeing sequences that simply are not there.
