Roulette, I’m afraid, how I love that silver ball that spins around the wheel. The excitement, the anticipation, how addictive! Oh and give back, so sweet. With 35:1 payouts for multiple hits, roulette can turn into a serious pile! But beware of the tricks of the trade.
Visiting my part of the casino, and losing more than part of the money, I learned one simple thing about Roulette, you can’t win – at least not discover. Years ago, when I first nervously approached the roulette table, I had no idea what was going on and I didn’t know how to squat from the house of Commodus. I walked in with my last $5 chip and left fifteen minutes later with $75 (although I should mention that my better side had lost almost twice that in blackjack the night before). I went out and went home happy, thinking that I might find a new one.
Young and convinced that it should be easier way to earn money, I am convinced that I have. Skill at Roulette. Read, remember the segments of the wheel and in some “proven” betting systems ha! I bought my bike and practiced these exercises. I really thought there was something going on. Between my mathematical instincts and the gurus of various roulette strategies, I couldn’t go right?
The rehearsal was soon to take place, it was time for the show on the road. I was treated to a few dollars and a can-do. Until the casino emptied its pockets I thought hmm. . . maybe I just got lucky last time! But still, I didn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe it, roulette was my fate. So I decided I could implement the previous system (I’m a bad math geek) and finally hit it rich. If I could beat the odds in my favor, then I could beat the house. At last I came to the analytic constraint, that house was forsaken by God (or by a factor of 0.00).
I can now say scientifically, mathematically, and laboriously that Roulette will never make me rich. The comfort of that house made him safe. We are so tempted by those incredible payouts that we say, “Oh, if I could hit one number with $100, then I’d be lucky, $3500 lucky.” Yeah, well you won’t be too lucky if you hit 70 spins, and it could very well be. (By the way, that’s $3500 in the hole!)
Casino Roulette, like the orders in slot machines, is pure luck. There is no such thing as a proven betting system in roulette, only proven luck. Don’t get me wrong, you can still walk away a big winner from the Roulette wheel if Lady Fortune smiles on you, just don’t expect to do it twice!
