No blog on roulette systems would be complete without me mentioning what is the most well known of roulette betting systems…..The Martingale. In fact this system is so popular that many people actually stumble upon it purely by accident by themselves. This doubling up systsm is very dangerous, it hits or approaches table limits and can do so very quicky. Risking a large amount of money in order to win the table minimum is hardly a good system to use.
The system basically doubles up after every loss, at first it seduces people who cannot seem to see how certain sequences of numbers arrive far more often than they can percieve. This system is actually over 200 years old as are most systems and in fact I recall reading somewhere that its origins could be as old as 300 years.
This is another system that is applied to the even chances. If you bet $1 and it wins then you are up $1. If you bet $1 and it loses then you bet $2 on the next spin…..if that wins then you are up $1. If that loses then you are down $3. You then bet $4 on the next spin, if that wins then you are up $1…..if that loses then you are down $7 and thus bet $8 on the next spin to make your $1.
Long series of losses makes this system very expensive when it goes wrong, it is also a system that is heavily handicapped by table maximums. In roulette, there is a ratio between table minimum and the maximum. If that ratio is 100/1 then what basically happens is this,
$1…. $2…..$4…..$8……$16……$32…..$64……$128
After just seven consecutive losses, the eighth bet will shove you over the maximum and would not be allowed. You are therefore only allowed to wager $100. This isnt enough to get back the $127 that you are behind. If you walk away then you are down $127, if you bet $100 and win and then you are down $27. If you bet $100 and lose then you are down $227. That is an awful lot of $1 wins if you are thinking of clawing that back. Most of the time then you will win $1 as you will not hit this sequence. I have known punters attempt all sorts of variantions to try to combat this.
They will wait for maybe three consecutive blacks or reds to appear before betting in the logic that they are already three spins into a losing sequence. The roulette wheel has no memory, it is an object made of metal and wood…..it cannot know that there has been a sequence. I also used to see sequences that would wipe out a Martingale bettor ost evenings when I was a croupier.
So take my advice, in this series of systems……side step the Martingale.
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