What’s the worst thing you can do when devising or buying into a betting strategy in a casino? Whether it’s roulette or any other game, the answer is always the same – counting on consistency. Especially when that consistency is about winning (not sure why you’d plan on consistently losing as a sound strategy, but hey…) I can across a betting structure that looked too good to be true, and statistically speaking, it is of course. But by examining it, it helps illustrate how unpredictable games like roulette really are, and how no betting strategy is going to be that “silver bullet” so many enthusiasts are looking for.
The theory of this roulette betting strategy revolves around making “just” two points per day profit. That’s two units, dollars, pounds or whatever measurement you want to work in, but that doesn’t mean hitting two points on the wheel, per se. The idea of this being you can double your money in 50 days with a smart win and leave strategy. And there are so many holes in this, I’m not sure I even know where to begin.
We’re led to believe that by following hits, let’s say with $100. That in just 50 days time, we’ll be lucky enough to turn that into $200. And we all can do simple math, so I’ll fast forward to 500 days time, where the total amounts to $12,800. After this mark has been reached – in only a year and a half – you can take $2,000 every 50 days and still keep your principle to use to create more winnings on a regular basis. Getting to your two points a day might happen on the first spin, or it could be after an initial play time limit is set. Wow, that’s incredible! Sign me up…oh wait.
First of all, you’re never going to have the luck of ending your session up 2 units a day that many times in a row. The game just isn’t built that way. And when that doesn’t happen, you need a contingency plan to account for your losses during any subsequent sessions. Do you spread a 10-unit loss out over the next five sessions, or do you keep playing until you’ve reach back to where you were supposed to be if you never lost before? What happens if things don’t go your way two days in a row?
This isn’t a gambling strategy so much as it is a betting structure, and a poor one at that. The majority of even seasons players will bottom out of their bankroll within two weeks in my opinion. It’s a fantasy world bet that appeals to fools and nobody else.
And even if you can sustain this for even 100 days, you’re talking about such miniscule increments of profit that one night can easily wipe away a half a year of work. You’re telling me people will be willing to start over again every time that happens? Nonsense.
The only positive I see out of this scenario is that by setting such a small ceiling per day you minimize risk, but I didn’t hear anything about a bottoming out point per day, either. You’d have to set one of those just to cover yourself. Nobody can realistically expect to walk away a winner every day, and if a regular gambler doesn’t set restraints for himself on the back end, he’ll blow his whole bankroll trying to get back to that +2 mark every time.
So there have to be stops in place. How much to lose in one day? How many days to regain a loss? It’s just too shallow and poorly thought out to really work. It puts all the faith on an incredible string of luck, which is not the smart way to approach gambling on roulette.