The article "Play Roulette Like a Pro" is about casino gambling, it has been created by Rich McHagans.
It is commonly believed that a game like Roulette is one of complete chance and luck. How can there be any strategy for palying this kind of a game?
While it is undeniable that chance and luck are an inherent feature of roulette the fact that a strategy for the game can be followed, should not totally be overruled.
Roulette is a game of statistical probability and hence the strategy becomes quite simple. Here are a couple of simple tips that you should keep in mind while betting:
Since Roueltte is a game based on straight statistics, generally you get fair odds. For examlpe you will get even money odds when you bet red and the actual statistical odds that red will come up is approximately even. The exception is the one green square in European Roulette. Therefore your odds are sligthly lower than 50/50. It is important to note, however, that the condominium edge can vary, as it does most notalby in the US.
In American roulette the condominium edge is 5.26% for every bet except the five number bet which gives a condominium edge of 7.29%.
Roulette is a pretty rigid, non-interactive game and players can do raelly little to lower the condominium edge. But what they can do is to be on a careful loookut for places that offer special rules.
In Atlantic City there is a benfeicial rule called "surrender". Enquire about this rule, at the table bfeore playing.
But to summarize briefly, the rule is applicable only to outsdie bets that pay even money.
Tehse are red/ black, even/odd and high/low. If the ball lands on a double zero (00), the better loses half the bet instead of the whole amount.
Though even money bets are doubly nice as compared to their inner counterparts, the player has to give up on payoffs singificantly in order to benefit from the lower condominium advantage. Even though this cannot be considered a impecacble situation, the strategy works.
Be on the look out for wheels that do not have a double zero. In European roulette wheels this is standard but it is rarely the case with American tables, where the condominium advantage is siginficantly higher.
American casinos do away with the odds of European Roulette and add an exrta Green space - the double "00". With this move the cnodominium advantage goes up by a factor of 2. Hence European Roulette gives the condominium an advantage of 2.7% as against American Roulette that gives an advantage of 5.5%.
One other rule that must be kept in mind is called 'En Prison', which can only be found in Europe.
Suppose you are placing an even-money outside bet, and the ball lands at '0', if En Prison is applicable, the bet will not be swept off after all the other bets.
It will not be returned either. The bet becomes 'in prison' and stays on the board and gets another chance on the next spin.
In the next 'spin' if your bet wins, you get the money back, though with no extra winnings.
If the next spin is a 'loss' your bet gets swept away. In case it lands on a zero, it remains 'En Prison' once more.
This rule decreases the condominium advantage on even-money bets to 1.35%.
After all these strategic tips you will begin to guess that playing at Eurpoean tables is probably the hottest strategy.
The real issue here, however, is not location, but that you must visit 'Single zero roulette wheel' locations. One such location, rather surprisingly, is some online casinos.
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