Beat Roulette, Bet the Martingale Way
Roulette, unlike most casino games, is a game where winning and losing seems to be dependent solely on chance. What adds to its unpopularity among casino patrons is its very high house edge. 37 of the different bets in American roulette have a house edge of 5.26 percent; one bet has a very high 7.89 house edge. European roulette carries 2.7 percent high house edge.
No amount of skill can influence how the wheel should turn and where the ball should stop. Even then, betting systems like Martingale betting system has remained to influence some players' behavior in making bets.
How does a player expect to win in roulette using Martingale betting system?
Not successively, not all the time, but, eventually, streak of luck will come.
Martingale betting system works this way: the player settles on a starting bet. If the player loses on the first round, the player places another bet twice larger than the initial bet. The player redoubles the bet, and keeps the pattern that way until the gets a win.
Let's say, the table minimum is $5. The player lays $5 for one's starting bet. The dealer spins the wheel, rolls the marble, and determines the winning number. The player loses the first round. The player makes another bet, twice higher that the starting bet. The player wagers $10 this time. Another spin, another roll, another loss. The player bets again. On the third round, the bet is twice the amount of the second bet: $20.
Let's say the player wagered the $20 on an inside split bet. At 17: 1 payout, the player gets a $340 win. Subtracting the player's losses from the win, the player nets a profit of $325.
This seems like a good start. The player bets again and it's back to the $5 start. Let's say the maximum bet limit is $500. If on the 7th spin with $320 wagered the player still does not win, the player goes back to the $5 start. For this sequence, the player has lost a total of $635.
The sequence that Martingale betting system follows can go on and on Streaks of luck may run once in a while. Eventually, though, one's win is often not enough to offset total loss.
Despite its continuing influence in the way some gamblers bet, Martingale betting system cannot change the fact that to win in roulette is like to win in a lottery: your chances are very slim. If you bet on a single number, your chances of winning is 1/38 on American roulette, 1/37 in European roulette. The highest chance you can get is by making Dozens bet. That leaves you a 12/38 or 12/37 chances of winning. Even then, that kind of bet only pays a small 1:1.
Martingale betting system follows a double-the-bet-after-loss sequence. The problem with Martingale betting system as it is used in roulette is that it is very reliant chance. A game of chance is what describes roulette best. Couple this with the house's staggering 7.89 edge, and in the end, you have more losses than win with Martingale betting system