How Not to Lose Playing Roulette – A Beginner’s Guide

So let’s turn our attention to better money-management systems.

These, of course, mean those that increase your bets when you´re winning, not losing. The first thing to look for when playing roulette is a wheel that has only one “0”. The standard roulette wheels with “00” will take your money twice as fast as the house edge is exactly twice as much. It’s one of the fundamental rules of playing roulette – never play the American variant.

The next thing to decide is whether to play the inside-number bets or the outside proposition bets such as red-black and even-odd. Since most roulette players playing the inside numbers tend to make their bets haphazardly without much forethought, I would go with the outside prop bets.

The idea is to take advantage of streaks when they come—and they will.

However, you must do so with a somewhat conservative attack, which is to say you cannot keep letting your winning bet ride over and over again because the streak will sooner or later end, usually sooner. Imagine if you win eight bets in a row while letting it ride, only to lose it all when the ninth bet loses.

I have studied and even played several positive-progression roulette systems and my favorite is the 1-3-2-6. This means a progression in exactly those numbers of units over four winning bets. Each time a losing bet happens, you return to one unit.

Example – Red/Black

Let´s take the red-black proposition into account.

Your first bet is $5 on red. If you lose, you bet $5 again. If you win, you progress to $15, which is 3 units. If that bet loses, you go back to $5. If it wins you decrease to $10, which is 2 units. If you win again, you shoot up to $30, which is the maximum 6-unit bet.

Whether that bets wins or loses, you return to a $5 bet because the 1-3-2-6 cycle is over. If you win four consecutive bets, you take down a profit of 12 units, which is 3 units per bet average. If you lose the last bet, you break even for the cycle. If you lose the third 2-unit bet, you take down 2 units for the cycle.

Thus the only negative outcomes are when you lose the first or second bets, which sets you back $5 and $10 respectively.

Conclusion

Not losing ar roulette comes down to three essential things:

• Always play a European wheel
• Carefully manage your money
• Rely on positive betting systems instead of ones with negative progression

There are many other positive-progression systems and they all work more or less the same way. Whichever you choose is FAR better than any negative-progression system. So my final encouraging advice to you is “Be POSITIVE when playing roulette!”