In the following lines you will find names and concepts that you may also know from sports betting. "What do Martingale, Fibonacci and Labouchère have to do with roulette?" many connoisseurs of football betting strategies might have wondered. The truth, however, is that the root of these so-known systems is actually roulette, from which it later switches to sports predictions.
Martingale
Undoubtedly this is the best known betting strategy in both football and other games and the wheel of luck. In the casino, as with sports predictions, the principle is the following - after losing, the amount of the bet is doubled, choosing selections with a ratio of at least 2.00. Each subsequent unsuccessful bet will result in a new doubling, but even the first win will offset all losses back in time and may bring a small plus to the overall balance. With each successful prediction, the player returns to the original bet amount.
In roulette, Martingale is mostly used in bets that have a roughly 50% chance of winning, to be able to form odds of about 2.00. The strategy is suitable for playing:
- Black or red
- Even or odd
- Small (1-18) or Large (19-36)
You can also rely on combinations of dozens (3 sectors - Voisin, Tiers Du Cylindre, Orphelins; consecutive dozen (1-12, 13-24, 25-36); columns). The risk is higher for them, but the return is also increasing - for each bet the net profit is 2.
Martingale is a strategy that is unbeatable in theory, because with a persistent and unlimited budget, sooner or later it will return everything invested. The catch, however, comes precisely in the "unlimited" budget - no one has one. And with a starting bet of €2, for example, and with 9 consecutive unsuccessful predictions, the tenth bet amount is already € 1024, and when you collect and lose up to that point, with 10 consecutive unsuccessful predictions the minus already exceeds € 2000. based primarily on luck (unlike sports betting, where there is still some degree of predictability), such a negative series is quite possible, testing not only the player's "bank" but also his nerves.
So in order for the Martingale Roulette strategy to work, you need to find a table with a low start and a high top. This allows maximum drawdown of a possible negative series. If you start with €1 at the first prediction and the maximum amount per bet per table is, say, € 2000 , that means you can make 11 consecutive unsuccessful predictions, but the 12th has to come out already. Consider whether you can afford such a budget - in this example, it is possible to accumulate a loss of € 4000, which can no longer be compensated, since after 2000 the mass does not allow doubling. Probably if you hold the same choice (always black, always odd, or always low), then you are far more likely to succeed within 5-6 spins. But then there is the other problem - will they allow you to place several such bets, as restrictions may be imposed in this regard as well.
Anti-Martingale (Paroli)
It's also called Reverse Maringale, but let's use Anti-Martingale or Paroli, as the system is known. Indeed, the strategy is built exactly on the polar opposite of the one described above. While Martingale is a strategy of negative progression (doubling bet after losing), Anti-Martingale is a line of positive progression - doubling after winning. And what happens at a loss? Return to original bet.
Again, it is important to choose selections with a success rate of around 50%, i.e. with a profit of one euor for each bet (in other words, an odd of 2.00). The strategy is again suitable for playing:
- Black or red
- Even or odd
- Small (1-18) or Large (19-36)
And while standard Martingale may run the risk of less likely options (6 lines, corner, street, split and even exact number), in Anti-Martingale it makes no sense to follow that choice. Here it is important to look for a long successful series. The first loss, however, erases everything that has been gained so far.
Example:
If we start with €1 and win, next time we bet 2. If we win again, we bet 4. We are at a luck, we already have €8, we bet once more and we get 16. We bet again, but this time we lose. So far our net profit is €15 (1 + 2 + 4 + 8), and after betting 16 and losing, we are in the series of minus 1.
The obvious disadvantage of the system is that each loss completely collapses its current profit (back to Martingale, where every profit offsets all losses). The good news here is that overall loss is always minimal, i.e. the impact on the bank is insignificant. But to successfully use Paroli or Anti-Martingale, you need to know when to stop.
D'Alembert’s system
This approach is significantly more conservative than Martingale or Paroli. D'Alembert’s strategy again raises the bet for a loss and decreases with successful prediction, but the step is small - by one unit. I.e. if you start with € 5 and fail at the first bet, the next you play with 6, then 7, 8, etc.
Obviously, in negative series, losses do not rise as seriously as in Martingale. But even the first profit does not offset the disadvantages so far. The key here is to achieve a long-term positive balance, which means that the number of successful bets is at least equal to the unsuccessful. We clarify that this system, like the previous ones, is most successful in roulette bets "or-or" (red-black, odd-even, slightly larger).
Fibonacci Strategy
This is another concept known from sports betting. Of course, the Fibonacci name is widely known on many other occasions (including the "Leonardo Schiff") because of the progression of the Italian mathematician of the same name, dating back to the 13th century. It accumulates with the next number being the sum of the previous two. The famous series starts like this:
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 .....
Think of these numbers as betting amounts. You start with €1, you bet 1 more at a loss, at a new loss - 2, then 3, 5, 8, etc. Again, we are talking about a negative progression such as that of Martingale, but with a slower accumulation. The difference, however, is that when we make a profit, we do not go back to the original amount, but take it two steps back. For example, if we bet € 8 and win, we will play with the next bet with €3, not 1 - the number from which the series starts.
The Fibonacci system is applicable not only for the two-digit outputs (red-black, odd-even, slightly larger), but also for the slightly riskier types of different dozen. Each narrowing of the choice of numbers increases the risk, but so does the potential profit.
James Bond Strategy
We're really talking about an example from the legendary movie series. And the combination was invented by Ian Fleming himself, the author of the cult series of spy novels that are then filmed.
We have a bank of €200 (or $ 200 in the original version). We divide it into 3 bets:
- 140 large (19-36) with a potential net profit of 1 to 1 (we get 280, 140 of which are net profit).
- 50 on a line of 6 numbers from 13-18 with a potential gain of 5 to 1 (we get 300, 240 of which are net profit).
- 10 to 0 to secure with a potential of 35 to 1 (we get 350, net profit 340).
However, this distribution does not cover the smallest dozen - the numbers from 1 to 12. Mathematically, the chance of success is greater than that of loss, as they cover more than 2/3 of the possibilities. If you can afford to play at such a range 5, 6 or 10 times, then you are more likely to be a plus when you draw the line.
But it's all a matter of luck. Without it, even the best thought out strategy is cracked. Roulette is enchanting with the opportunities it gives players, but the risks must always be taken into account. To play roulette without risking your own finances, you can try some of our free roulette games.
