However one such popular way is to bet on even chances and only use a percentage of your stake. Say $1 if you started with $20. But instead of doubling up your stake if you lose you only increase your stakes if you win. If you went onto a winning streak straight away then you can actually amass considerable winnings. Let us say that you bet $1 and won and so now you have $2 and a total of $21. Let us also say that you actually win 8 times on the trot. Spin number two and you wager $2 and so win another $2 and thus taking your stack to $23.
Spin three and you bet the $3 profit and win again and now you have $26.

The same with spin number four and now you have $32. On spin number five then you decide that you are going to “bank” some of your money and so you risk $6 and that wins and now your stack is at $38. You decide to risk $12 of your profit on spin six and that wins and now you are up to $50. You have $30 profits after six spins and your maximum downside was only $1.

This analogy is significant because it highlights the fact that many systems fail in gambling not because they are fundamentally unsound but because of the vigorish that is imposed on it from the casino or the gambling house. Poker is the same with table fees and rake and many would be successful poker players end up either not making money, losing money or not making enough to make the entire process financially viable above and beyond doing another line of work.

This process is the same for poker players because not only do you need to find a successful style but you also need to find a successful style that beats the rake and other overheads and also to find a successful style that allows you to earn an amount from the game that you deem to be financially viable. So any casino gambling strategy by sheer definition has many obstacles for it to overcome before it can start down the road to making money.

However another clear goal is to also ride your profits as far as you possibly can and to cut your losses short. This principle is seen in some roulette systems where you start off making an initial bet and the use a percentage of that bet to carry on towards the next bet in the hope that the run will continue. There is logic behind this because of the fact that numbers in games like roulette are not evenly distributed in the short term.

For example in 37 spins then it is extremely unlikely that all 37 numbers would appear in those 37 spins and so this means that some numbers would appear more than once. So if you can look to possibly identify which number is about to go into a sequence of arriving more than it should based on short term variance then you have a chance of coming out ahead for the session. Clearly this method of betting will not make you +EV but it can be fun to use for single sessions of play.

But the key word in all of that is “random” because under certain specific situations then the result isn’t random. The job of a croupier and the job of a roulette wheel are to make the result totally random so that no mathematical system can ever succeed and to simply allow the odds that are built into the game to do their job.

However if it is the purpose of the croupier to try and ensure a random result then this underlines how the wheel cannot accomplish these feat on its own. I have heard many different roulette experts say the same thing but differently and whether you want to call it the “dealer’s signature” or whatever…….the fact of the matter is that croupiers either advertently or inadvertently can affect the randomness of an outcome.

How do I possibly know this? Well as a croupier and gaming inspector for nearly nine years then I ought to know. The casinos do not wish it to be common knowledge and so hide the fact. But there isn’t a single casino manager that I have ever worked with that didn’t know and understand how vulnerable roulette was under certain conditions.

The entire episode was actually pretty funny because I doubled the bet up from £5 all the way to £80 before I stopped. I like the thought of spinning up small amounts of money as I often do it in poker. But you can try to do this in roulette as well and you can do it for as little as $5 if you are selective about which tables you can do it with. Buying in for the table minimum stakes allows players to play roulette with little or no stress of losing and at the end of the day……casino games should be about entertainment and having fun for the least amount of money possible.

Card counting is a way to theoretically make money but even that practice is shunned by casinos as it provides the player with a positive way to become +EV. So card counters will be prevented from playing or prevented from seeing positive situations in the shoe. This could be done by having rules like no mid shoe entry for example to prevent back counting or reducing the amount of cards being dealt from the shoe.

So when casinos are actively trying to prevent their clientele from taking money from them or becoming +EV against them which is the same thing then using stealth tactic becomes every bit as important as knowing and understanding the technical side of the game! In fact I would go as far as to say that 99% of all people who have ever tried to make money from card counting have either failed or had their “career” terminated through being prevented from playing or realising their full earning potential.

I simply think that there are far better uses of your time than trying to go down this road even though I spoke about this at length in my book “Killer Roulette”. I would never advise people to do this these days as there are simply far better ways to make money full stop inside casinos. Online then you have the online poker option and even if you were a novice player then I would still advise you to learn to play better poker as a possible income stream. The combination of the new modern low profile wheels and the fact that casinos are far more clued up these days with regards to wheel bias means that finding and then exploiting them is difficult.

Plus in order to exploit one then you have to wager significant amounts of money. If the edge is very small then you could still end up losing money despite having spotted a biased wheel. Also there would be absolutely nothing to stop any casino from removing an infected wheel from circulation and replacing it with one that they had in the back room.

These two types combined account for nearly all of the people who play roulette…..probably 99.99% of them……but not all. This is because there is also one other type of player, a rare type and a type who knows that the 35/1 pay offs are not a weakness at all but a strength. So just how can roulette be attacked and beaten……certainly not by mathematical systems for sure. But it can be beaten by cheating, biased wheels and reading a careless dealers spin.

The reading of a spin is a skill in its own right but it is far easier to do when dealers do not reverse spin. The act of reverse spinning is done to thwart players who can read the spin. However there are still many casinos who do not tell their dealers to do this. These are precisely the casinos that can get targeted by players who are adept at exploiting careless and sloppy dealers.

The odds against that happening are 36-1 in a 37 number wheel. However the casino only pays you 35-1 and so you are being paid odds that are less than the event actually happening and not greater than. If the casino were generous enough to pay you 37-1 instead of 35-1 then you could make money playing roulette as the odds would be greater than the event actually happening. Alas of course the casino isn’t a means of social security and is merely charging its players through the odds that it gives, a fee for them providing entertainment.

How much you pay for that entertainment is entirely up to you. The odds are easier to see in roulette than many other casino games and so the chances of winning are easier to figure out. In games like blackjack then it isn’t quite so straight forward where the advantage can shift depending on what cards have been dealt and what cards are left in the shoe. But even here the advantage is easier to calculate in certain instances like with automatic shufflers for example that reshuffle after every hand.

Beginners have to start somewhere and that is exactly where the 2 Up 2 Down system comes into play. This system is designed for those that are new to the game of roulette and don’t have a super huge bankroll to play around with. This system was developed for even-money bets meaning odd and even, red and black, as well as high and low. The system is nowhere near complex yet very efficient producing results.

The Sequence and How It Works

The sequence that gamblers utilize with the 2 Up 2 Down system is simple and easy to remember – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Easy enough, right?

You’ll begin your wagers at 1 unit. You can start at any denomination; just make sure it fits within your bankroll. For explanation purposes, 1 unit will be equal to €1. You’ll bet €1 until you lose two consecutive times. Once you have lost two consecutive spins, you will up your bet to 2 units, which in this case would be €2. You will continue with the €2 bet until you lose two spins in a row, in which case you would increase your bet to €3, or until you win two spins in a row, in which case you would lower your bet back to €1.

With that being said, if you win two consecutive spins, you will lower your bet to the previous number in the sequence and if you lose two spins in a row, you will increase your bet to the next number in the sequence.

Once you finish the sequence, you can start it all over again or you can go up in your sequence with 6, 8, and 10. So long as you maintain the betting system of 2 Up 2 Down, you should be good to go no matter what type of number sequence you want to utilize.

The 2 Up 2 Down betting system is ideal for beginners to roulette – those that are just getting their feet wet to see if they enjoy the game or not. It is also the perfect strategy system for those that have smaller bankrolls to play with.