Roulette strategy - The Martingale System

The Martingale is usually the first choice of a novice gambler looking to play to a strategy and is probably the oldest of betting systems. Many other systems are based on the basic theory of the Martingale, and so to evaluate most systems you need a full understanding of the Martingale.

The Martingale is a progression system played on the even chance bets, on a roulette table. It can also be used on even chance bets on other games.

As with other systems, it's main purpose is to obtain profit even though they could be a series of losing spins, exponentially increasing your bets after every negative spin. The basic idea is: if you bet on one of the even chance bets (e.g. Red) sooner or later it has to come in. Until this happens, the player must continue to increase his bets after each losing spin in order to win back all his losses plus one unit.

The bottom line is simply this: in order to win all your previous losses back plus one unit, you simply need to double your bet each time.

Although infallible in theory, the Martingale system requires a large bankroll, has a very low return and is very risky because of the maximum bet limits imposed by the casinos. If you run out of money or reach the house limit, you can lose an awful lot with no chance to recover your losses. The physical limit for this system lies in the huge amount of requested capital that reaches the house limit in a very short time.

Back in the days of the 42 numbered Roulette wheel, if you had started playing £1 on red in accordance with this system, and there was no table limit then your bet on the 43rd spin would have been approx £4,398,046,511,000. Bill Gates would have lost his fortune after about 37 spins.

Playing the Martingale system will probably (but not definitely) make win you a few dollars when you start using it, but eventually you will get stung badly.

There are many variations of Martingale system, and it can be used with other methods or in other more complicated systems but limited to two or three bets maximum, in this case the maximum exposure is 7 units for every gaming session.

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