5 Popular Roulette Strategies
Punters have been working hard to try and devise a guaranteed ‘winning tactic’ to bring to the roulette table for just about as long as the wheels themselves have been a casino mainstay. Eager gamblers play upon all manner of statistical intricacies when considering where to place those chips, and the variety of strategies on offer is dazzling in its depth and breadth. Here’s a brief outline of five of the most popular approaches.
Odds are (no pun intended!) that even if you have only a cursory knowledge of roulette then this is what springs to mind when somebody mentions ‘roulette strategy’. It’s a progressive betting system often employed by novice players, promising an eventual windfall by doubling up the subsequent bet following a loss – the idea being that sooner or later your luck will change and you’ll have one big payout.
Playing on the notion that, all things being equal, the roulette wheel will even out over time, this strategy has you decreasing winning bets and increasing losing bets – the logic here being that once a given outcome has happened once, it is less likely to happen again.
Players employing the Shotwell approach to roulette betting smatter their chips around the board to create an equal distance between betted-on numbers on the wheel. By limiting the spaces between your numbers to no more than three increments, you never, as proponents of this system would argue, have less than a one in four chance of a big win.
A nice and simple up-as-you-win approach to roulette betting, Oscar’s grind involves repeating bets when you lose, and increasing them incrementally when you win; any given time you never bet more than what is needed to recoup previous losses, with an added single-unit profit margin, allegedly spelling victory in the long term.
Much like Oscar’s grind above, this is an up-as-you-win system, but with much more aggressive betting. As long as you are losing, you bet one unit. When you win, you then bet double your stake plus one, with the overall goal of three even chance wins for a steady payout.
