How to Win at Roulette Joker123

Roulette, like most other casino games, isn’t a game where you can realistically expect to get a mathematical edge over the house.

In a sense, this means that all roulette strategies are equally worthless.

But, I’m writing a series of blog posts about good and bad strategies for various casino games, and roulette is a mainstay, so I can’t leave it out.

Most of what I’m going to look at in this post involves analyzing how to avoid the worst bets at the roulette table so that you’re at least dealing with a respectably low house edge.

Understanding the House Edge in Roulette

Playing roulette for real money is easy. You have a wheel with 38 numbers on it. 18 of them are black, 18 of them are red, and two of them are green. The two green numbers are 0 and 00, so they don’t count as high/low or even/odd, either.

If you guessed that the green 0 and the 00 are the reason the casino has a mathematical edge over the player, you’re in the front of the class.

Here’s why:

Suppose you bet on every single number on the roulette wheel. You’d be guaranteed a win because you’ve covered all the numbers.

But you’d lose money.

The payout for a single number bet in roulette is 35 to 1, so you’d win 35 units on the bet you won.

But you’d lose 37 units on the 37 losing numbers, for a net loss of two units.

More About the House Edge in Roulette

It wouldn’t matter if you chose a different combination of bets, either. You could bet on red, bet on black, and place a single bet on each of the green numbers. You’d still see a net loss no matter where the ball landed.

If you bet on black and win, you lose the bets you had on red and the bets you had on each of the green numbers.

If you bet on red and win, you lose the bets you have on black and the bets you had on each of the green numbers.

If you bet on green and win, you still lose the bets you had on black and red and on the other green 0.

Repeat this often enough, and eventually, you’ll lose all your money.

The variation of roulette that I’ve been using for this example is called “American roulette.”

But it’s not the only variation of roulette in the world.