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The Personal Roulette Number

June 13, 2007

In roulette if you have a favorite number, from 1 to 36 it can be your magic roulette number. If you have more favorite numbers, it’s no problem, because then you will have more magic roulette numbers.

You can place a certain bet on this number, a bet which is fun and inexpensive. Now let’s say that your favorite numbers are 18 and 19. The rule of three says that you have to place a bet on this/these numbers three times in a row.

You place another bet for each time you win. This bet can be placed any time, and the great part is that you don’t need skill to place it. It is just pure luck and who knows maybe you will get lucky and win. If you win you will get paid 35 to 1, which is a big sum of money.

Of course, you will lose more often than win, but who cares, because you don’t place large bets, only small amounts of money. A win will certainly cheer you up; raise your confidence and your humor as well.

When you play at the roulette you can use this strategy but to place bets on the areas which represent the numbers 1 to 12 or 13 to 24 or 25 to 36. The bet pays 2 to 1 but you have more chances of winning with this bet. You can place this wager as many times as you like.

If you want to find out more roulette strategies, search on the internet, but no matter what anyone says, there isn’t a strategy that guarantees a win. A strategy which is popular nowadays is the parlay bet, but be careful with it as it may cause you to lose a large amount of money.

These strategies usually work on paper but fail when they are used in a casino, so don’t believe anything you read.

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How to play roulette - A beginner’s guide

May 17, 2007

Who amongst us has not seen the dashing James Bond place a bet on the roulette table and win? He did not think about the number, he just bet on it because a drop-dead gorgeous woman told him that it was a lucky number. The question is this: can roulette really be such a random game? And another question arises: is online roulette just as easy as playing roulette in Monte Carlo for example?

The term “roulette” is French for “little wheel”. On the roulette wheel there are 38 holes and the outcome of each round is decided by the ball landing in one of those holes or slots. The slots represent the numbers 1 to 36, plus 0 and 00. The 0 and 00 slots are placed on opposite sides of the roulette wheel. If you decide to bet on just one number you stand to get a 35-to-1 payout if you win.

What are your chances?

The classic bet is when you put your money on one number, just like James Bond. In that case your chances of winning are 38-to-1, regardless if that number is 7, 19, 25, or 32. The odds are the same regardless of the number you choose to wager upon.

Most people believe that just because the ball landed on a particular number, it will not land on the same number on the following spin. It is easy to understand why roulette players can be fooled into thinking that. It is a common and understandable error. What you must remember is that all the numbers have the same chances of winning. Previous rolls do not matter.

Placing your bets

You are trying to anticipate what number will come up next you are just wasting your time. Placing your bets is not an exercise in anticipating what may come up. Just imagine that the bets you place are a spider’s net and the winning number is the fly that you want to trap.

If you place consecutive bets on the same numbers you have the same chances of winning every spin. It is a perfectly respectable strategy. This way you can wait to see how often those numbers come up. Most experienced roulette players have a set of lucky or preferred numbers on which they always place a bet.

Do not think that betting on a single number is your only choice. It is not as simple as that. There are plenty of other bets to choose from. The chances of you winning those bets are higher, but the payouts are consequently lower.

You have the best chances of winning when you place even or 1-to-1 bets. This means that you will win one chip for every chip that you wagered. Red and Black bets are just such bets. This means that you wager that the winning number will be black or red. odds or Even bets are also even money bets. This means that you wager that the winning number will be even or odd. High or Low bets are also even money bets.

Next come the 2-to-1 bets. This means that you will win one chip for every two chips that you wagered. Betting on the lower, middle or upper third of the number range are just such examples. You could also bet on one of the three columns in which the numbers are organized on the table and if you win you will receive a 2-to-1 payout.

The betting options presented so far are very straightforward and easy to understand.

Now we will talk about betting on number combinations. What you should do is divide the single-number payout by the number of numbers in your combination. The payout for a single number bet is 35-to-1, so the payout for a two-number combination will be 17-to-1, for three numbers 11-to-1, for four numbers 8-to-1, for five numbers 6-to-1.

Note that betting on any number combination is not possible because of the configuration of the roulette table:

- The numbers must be adjacent if you want to place a two-number bet.
- The numbers must be in a row across the table if you want to place a three-number bet.
- The numbers must be in a square if you wan to place a four-number bet.
- The numbers 0 and 00 must be included in a five-number bet.

Online Roulette

There really isn’t much of a difference between playing roulette in a land based casino and playing online roulette. The rules are the same, the game play is the same. The only difference is that you play with your mouse and keyboard, sitting in front of your computer.

So why not give online roulette a try? There are advantages to playing online as opposed to playing in a land based casino. As I see it the only problem is choosing an online casino, since there are so many out there.

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Tips for Playing Roulette at the Online Casino

December 12, 2006

Roulette belongs to a group of the most popular gambling games both at the online and the brick and mortar casinos. Roulette is so beloved by the players mostly due to its simplicity and easiness. Casino games played online can be divided into two groups: based on strategy and based on fortune.

The result of most of first group of games (mostly card games, for instance poker and Blackjack) depends on player’s skills, tactics, experience and thinking. The second group of games, which includes roulette and slots works only on the basis of luck, for example turning of a wheel or pulling of a handle. These games are usually very quick and simple. Players are not able to influence in any way on the result of the game, however they can increase their probability of winning by following a few tips.

Let’s start from the fact that you can play two kinds of roulette: European roulette and American roulette. American roulette has all the 37 numbers that European has (1 to 36 and 0) and additional 0 double zero (so altogether 38 slots). This is the main dissimilarity between these two kinds of roulette. As a result of this the probability of winning at the European roulette is higher than at American roulette, so if you can choose between these two kinds of roulette, it’s better to decide on European one. Secondly, the player should be fully familiar with the rules of roulette at the virtual casino especially the betting system and the odds based on the chosen numbers. It is possible to place many various bets at an online roulette and the payouts depend on type of a bet.

The simplest bet - straight bet is just a bet on a single number. If the ball lands on this number your prize is 35-1. The payout is the highest possible in a roulette but the possibility of winning is the lowest. Oppositely the highest probability of winning is with colour. You place a bet on one of two colors: black or red and if you become a winner (the ball must land on number marked by your colour) you are paid even money, or 1-to-1; your are paid exactly the same money you wagered before. If the ball lands on other colour number or zero you become a loser. When placing a bet on colour, you have 50% chance of winning.

The same chance is with the bets on odd or even. If you place your token on even you will become a winner if the ball stops on an even number. If the ball stops on an odd number or zero you become a loser. The similar situation is with bets on odd. Another possibility of even money bets are: 1 through 18 and 19 through 36 bets. In case you place a bet on 1 through 18 you will win if the ball lands on any number between 1 and 18; otherwise (zero or numbers 19 to 36) you will become a loser. And again the same rules are applicable to bets 19 through 36. That’s enough of theory, now is your time to find out how the roulette playing looks like and the best way to do this is just to place some bets.

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Roulette gambling systems

December 12, 2006

Roulette may seem to be not complicated are really easy casino game, however, you may be astonished if you knew how many strategies had been created for this game. If you use a good gambling strategy this can increase your probability of winning, but don’t believe you will become a millionaire thanks to it. The real purpose of these systems is to make you leave the casino with more money than when you entered it.

Roulette is a pure game of luck, therefore no strategy will ensure you always win. However, using a good system you can have your loses under control so this enables you to win more than to lose. A successful tactics should enable you to win and keep you in front of the House for the all time you play the roulette.

If you read some articles by veteran roulette players and creators of various gambling strategies, you will know that the roulette strategy based on chronological or regular probability doesn’t give good results in the world with unpredictable results. This is so due to the fact that probability has nothing to do in roulette.

When playing many roulette games, every game must be treated as an closed event so the previous results have no influence on the outcome of the next spin of the wheel. As a result of this, the probability of becoming a number the winning number is exactly the same at every game, regardless of how many times this number has already won.

For example for ten roulette games the winning number was black and for the eleventh game the probability that the winning number will be red is exactly the same like it will be black. The manufacturers and experts of roulette wheels inform that they don’t have any kind of memory card, so the previous results are not saved anywhere. Many gamblers don’t understand it or don’t want to understand it and believe that the probability taking into account recent outcomes of the roulette wheel is really good strategy.

Undoubtedly, theoretically roulette is pure a game of chance. The casino House has an advantage of 5.26 % for American roulette (2.7 % for European roulette) so it may look like that the players will almost always lose. In spite of this, players consider the roulette as a game of chance so they can increase their odds of being successful.

For instance, let’s assume to place $5 bets on even numbers for 40 chronological games on an American roulette, so theoretically I should win and lose every second game and finally I would have $10 less than in the beginning due to two zero outcomes.

However, in practice and real gambling, when you observe and analyze these 40 spins, your final outcome can be up or down by more than $10 depending when you decide to quit gambling this moment will decide how much you lose or win it’s up to you to choose the correct time to finish gambling.

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