Roulette systems - do they work?

[roulettepro]

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[ZimbuTheMonkey]

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do they work?

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No.

[CORed]

Roulette is the most honest of all casino table games. Note that I did not say that it is fair. It is not. However, the house advantage for roulette is obvious to anybody who is not mathematically retarded. If you can not, after looking at a roulette layout and wheel for five minutes, understand why the house has an unbeatable advantage at this game, you are probably fit for a career only in fast food or janitorial service, or possibly teaching liberal arts cousres.

[lotus guardian]

It's not as easy for many people as it is for many of us to understand that past results don't affect future ones. I know that many people that have a much better job than flipping burguers have no idea that the house has an unbeatable edge (with minor exceptions) at all casino games. People in general just don't think rationally. If they did they wouldn't even need to know the rules of a casino game to know it's unbeatable.

[semipro50]

Mike Caro developed a system a few years ago that nobody has lost any money when using it. I will let you search nerds post a link

[McBusto]

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Mike Caro developed a system a few years ago that nobody has lost any money when using it. I will let you search nerds post a link

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Caro's System

[CORed]

Okay, I'm fond of hyperbole. There are lots good jobs that don't require more than rudimentary math skills. But come on: roulette? Single numbers: 38 slots, 35:1 payout. Even money bets: 18/38 slots win. It ain't rocket science. The math is fairly complex for poker, blackjack and many other card games (I don't consider Three card poker, Let it Ride, Carribean Stud, etc. to be poker. They are carnival games that use poker hands.) The math is pretty easy for craps, but not quite as obvious as it is for roulette. Casino war is pretty simple mathematically, but they do that little bit of misdirection where the dealer takes the chips out of the tray and appears to (but really doesn't) match your extra bet when you go to war. I confess, I played Casino War once and it took me about half an hour before I spotted the con. Don't get me wrong: I knew there had to be a house edge somewhere, but it took me awhile to figure it out. But it mystifies me how anybody who is beyond counting on their fingers can fail see the house edge in roulette.

[lotus guardian]

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Okay, I'm fond of hyperbole. There are lots good jobs that don't require more than rudimentary math skills. But come on: roulette? Single numbers: 38 slots, 35:1 payout. Even money bets: 18/38 slots win. It ain't rocket science. The math is fairly complex for poker, blackjack and many other card games (I don't consider Three card poker, Let it Ride, Carribean Stud, etc. to be poker. They are carnival games that use poker hands.) The math is pretty easy for craps, but not quite as obvious as it is for roulette. Casino war is pretty simple mathematically, but they do that little bit of misdirection where the dealer takes the chips out of the tray and appears to (but really doesn't) match your extra bet when you go to war. I confess, I played Casino War once and it took me about half an hour before I spotted the con. Don't get me wrong: I knew there had to be a house edge somewhere, but it took me awhile to figure it out. But it mystifies me how anybody who is beyond counting on their fingers can fail see the house edge in roulette.

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The point is that people don't try to calculate EV or house edge when playing a casino game. Yes, the math is very simple and probably most of them would be able to figure it out, but they don't approach the problem like that. They just see that sometimes they win and sometimes they lose so they think "hey, I just need to get lucky and I'll win". It's not obvious for those people that after a certain number of bets your standard deviation will decrease in relation to your negative EV and you'll certainly be a loser in the long run.

[Tuco]

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Just curious to see if anyone has ever found any that actually brings a profit constantly, i.e. in the long run?

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I have. I bet 34 different number EVERY spin. The key is to leave out the LAST 4 numbers that have been rolled. Very important.

This way I get 35 bets back EVERY spin, but I only have to bet 34. Free money.

Tuco.

[LotsOfOuts69]

I make about $60/hour 4-tabling roulette wheels with $5 bets using a system I came up with.