A strategy for roulette

To improve your chances of winning at roulette, play different combinations. Here is one to consider.

Wager three chips on the red spot and two chips on the middle column. This combination will cover all 18 red numbers; the middle column will also cover eight additional black numbers. Remember, the center column has more black than the other two columns. Only 10 other black numbers and the 0 and 00 will make you lose this bet. This will result in you having 26 ways to win and only 12 ways to lose (11 ways to lose on a single zero wheel).

Here is how it turns out. If a red number shows up and it’s on the center column, you will win seven units. You will have won three units for red, which pays even money and four units for the center column which pays 2:1.

On the other hand, if one of the red numbers ends up in the 1st or 3rd column, you will win three for waging red and lose two for the column bet, still ending up with a one unit profit. If the ball lands on black in the center column you will win four, and lose three on the red spot, again a one unit win. You can also change the combination by playing black and betting the third or outside column with the same results. In the end you don’t win a lot, and you don’t lose a lot, but you get to play a lot. Later, if you get on a winning streak, double your wagers, but stay with the same strategy.


Bet You Didn’t Know:

• Early American roulette wheels had only 28 numbers but had a 0, double 00, and an eagle slot. That extra eagle spot helped to gave the house a whopping 12.3 percent edge.

• It was in 1796, in the gambling houses of the Palais Royal in Paris, France, that the game of roulette was first introduced to the world.

• Roulette is the most popular casino game in Europe. In some casinos you will find only two or three blackjack tables, while they might have 12 to 15 roulette wheels.

• If you add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel, the total is the mystical number 666, often associated with the Devil.

• The roulette wheels used in the casinos of Paris in the late 1790s had red for the single zero and black for the double zero. To avoid confusion, the color green was selected for the zeros in roulette wheels starting in the 1800s.

• One technique casinos have used to change a winning session by a roulette player is to “change the pill.” This is done when a roulette dealer changes the size of the ball in play. Casinos will use three different size balls, all of which will bounce and land in different ways depending on which ball is used.

• At one time in 1941 Harold’s Club in Reno had a one-cent roulette game.

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