Betting strategies
are common in all casino games as players try to look
for reason amongst the chaos of chance. This isn’t
always successful, and some of the strategies make no
sense at all.
However, there are a few strategies that many experienced
gamblers swear by, all of which are based on Outside
Bets, as these are the closest to 50/50 bets as you can
get.
The most popular betting strategy is also one of the
simplest. The idea is that you double your bet size when
you lose and keep on doing this until you win. For
instance, if you bet $10 and lose, then you would bet
$20.
If you lose again and again, going from $40 to $80 and
$160, then you would keep increasing it until you win.
If you hit a win at $160, that win would be enough to
cover all of your previous losses, at which point you
would return to $10 and start the process again.
The good thing about this strategy is that you’ll get
your money back eventually if you win, and if you stick
with Outside Bets, as the strategy dictates, that will
happen. However, it’s far from perfect.
What happens if you keep losing and then run into a betting limit? The
game hits a cap, prevents you from going any further,
and as a result, the strategy won’t work. In fact, many
proponents of this strategy believe that Roulette
betting caps were introduced just to prevent people from
using this strategy.
The Paroli system is also known as the Reverse
Martingale, which pretty much tells you all you need to
know. Instead of doubling your bet every time you lose,
this system requires you to double your bet when you
win, thus taking advantage of winning streaks and not
trying to recoup money after losing streaks.
This system has many of the same risks and issues, but it
isn’t as restricted by Roulette betting caps, especially
if you’re a small or medium stake player. In this
instance, it’s highly unlikely that you will have a
winning streak large enough to hit the betting cap and
even if you do, the profit you will have accumulated
will be more than enough for you to reset your
stake.
The D’Alembert strategy is also similar to the Martingale
strategy in that it increases your bets after every
loss. However, unlike the aforementioned strategy, the
increases are much smaller, thus decreasing the
risk.
For example, while a loss of $1 in the Martingale
strategy might initiate a bet of $2 and then $4, in the
D’Alembert strategy it will elicit a bet of $2 and then
$3. What’s more, once you secure a win, it requires that
you reduce your stake by the same amount.
For example, if you increase by $1 and lose the first few
bets, before winning the next few, your stakes might
look like this:
- $1 = Loss
- $2 = Loss
- $3 = Loss
- $4 = Win
- $3 = Win
- $2 = Win
Another loss would send the stake back up to $3, another
win would drop it down to its original amount. This
system is not as susceptible to Roulette bet limits and
it’s also more accessible for inexperienced and small
stake players.
