Roulette MUST require skill from the player??

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:50 pm

right, I rarely play roulette, but dumped about £60 in it over the last month in Random attempts......
A friend of mine plays roulette all the time, and he ALWAYS hits stuff... He puts a £20 note in and puts like 40p on numbers and always hits the profit zone (a healthy profit) then quite often spins it away without collecting which baffles us a bit!!

EVERY TIME I play, I do the same thing as him (similar stakes) and never hit a thing........

Interesting thing aswell came from an experiement today. About a month ago I went onto roulette and there were about 8/9 Red numbers come out in a row on the previous 8/9 spins. I put £1 on red thinking a BLACK would come in, or another red. Span it and Zero came in.....

Same thing today, about 8/9 blacks in a row. I put £1 on Black and £13 on Zero. Hit 26 Black (right next to zero) Really thought I was onto something......
I cant win ever at roulette...... Cant hit anything! not skillful enough? or bad luck? Im not just referring to that spin. Im referring to it in general. If I cover 34 Numbers out of 37 one of the 3 blanks will spin in!!

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:46 pm

From personal experience over a fair few years, there are no systems for roulette unless the table has a bias. The only way you would win is to save up £50,000 and go to a large casino and get permission to put it on an even money bet ie red/black, high/low, odd/even.

You can always get a significant statistical deviation over a small sample of events. Simulate several thousand for a true picture.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:11 am

i'm sure i can remember something on sky a few years back where some geezer sold everything he owned and put the lot on red/black and he won, think he put something like 80k on??? fair play too him, that takes some bottle, anyone else see this?

i know your talking fobt's but i can remember something about this.

thechief · Post by **thechief** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:55 am

yeah ashley duvelle , he went red and won... but what was his real risk-had he lost he'd sell the story-probably for more!

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:06 am

Wasn't it Revelle. Came in 7 red.

theoak · Post by **theoak** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:47 am

how can anyones grasp of mathematics be THAT bad to think roulette is a skill game?!

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:09 pm

its mainly psychological.

joel_winders · Post by **joel_winders** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:05 pm

or luck maybe ?

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:29 pm

Im quite an ambitious sort of person. John Egan (the Jockey) hasn't ridden a winner for over a week. Start backing his mounts now then!!

Backed one just now in the last at bath EW, came 2nd. Seb sanders got me over a ton with High Ambition the other day

merlin · Post by **merlin** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:43 pm

I think you should have a system even if it does not work, because the argument against a system is counter intuitive, if having a system has no effect on the outcome it matters not if you use one or not.

I think you should have a system for psychological reasons, as long as you do not confuse luck with skill.

Confusing luck with skill will ALWAYS make you lose money.

I tend to play sections of the table that have not run for awhile, i do this for psychological reasons, if i pick a different section and see a number that has not come up for awhile come up, i'll get annoyed LOL

theoak · Post by **theoak** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:38 am

Surely any 'psychological reason' is ONLY to serve the purpose of making someone believe it is more skill than luck?

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:05 pm

The mentality of "Number (insert any number) must come in soon" prevails.

Most players don't realise that the odds of your favourite number not coming in for 100 consecutive spins are only about 15/1. By then you will be skint chasing losses.

itsme · Post by **itsme** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:40 pm

I've been to the bookie's tonight and thrown 70 quid away in the roulette.I have noticed that certain number's play for a few spin's before throwing off and then back on again.It's just wank.Stay off them. Go out and get rat- arsed pissed instead. Im sure everyone who play's it try's to guess,predict the next number to win a tidy amount.Even when i do actually find a winner and get my bank upto a nice amount i still have that "one more press" which is a big mistake.I try to limit myself to an amount i can waste away instead nof blowing all that's left in my wallet.

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:34 pm

The crack cocaine of the gambling world. The resukts of an university study. Shouldn't be allowed in public lbo's.

mjd · Post by **mjd** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:01 am

Pychological as in 'Nine reds in a row - The next number will be black'

Im the same with Jockeys in Horse Riding. Jamie Spencer (who will likely be the champion Jockey again this year) goes on a losing run for about 7/8 days.. RARE.... Start backing his rides!