I’m sitting here at the Casino Niagara, at an electronic combination Roulette, Crap, and Sic Bo table. It’s electronic in that the betting is by touch screen but there is a physical roulette wheel and dice set. I like that as I distrust a totally virtual machine to keep odds close to even.
The low minimum bets (1$) let me experiment with my own basic progressive approach for getting into a roulette game. I haven’t read any roulette strategy so this is from scratch.
The basic idea is to keep doubling red and black outside bets until you win, and when you do, switch colours and go back to the minimum. Since outside bets typically require a high minimum at a real table, you can start covering one of the 2-1 rows with small denominations (10% to 50% of your red or black stake) to spice things up. Counterbalance using the 2-1 bets with rows that have the most colours of the OPPOSITE colour you are betting.
Worked well electronically, went from 20 bucks to 28. Let’s see if this works at the tables.
P.S. Well, it didn’t work at the tables. At least not with a measly 100 on a 15 minimum table, at the Fallsview. By the way, that means 15 min on the outside (red or black bets) and 15 min on the inside (numbers). I’m not sure yet if the 2-1 row bets are included. Anyway, I just doubled up on the outside as prescribed but didn’t have the stomach to go above 100 today. I think I’ll stick to the electronic roulette for now =) By the way, the min for that is 2$ at Fallsview and 1$ at Casino Niagara.
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