The anticipation of the ball being released, spinning aimlessly around the roulette wheel often comes to a crashing demise once the ball lands on a different number, colour etc.
What though if the roulette wheel could be predicted and beaten?
In the world of mathematics history has seen a number of number of suitors, particularly in the 1800s, devise many creative and sometimes crazy ways to beat the system.
Did though the world lose sight and memory of one or two of those strategies which sought consecutive higher returns than the wagers placed.
We know standing in front of a roulette wheel and simply guessing a number, or colour, offers us the same amount of chance as the next person.
But mathematical strategies have seen far more wonderous and mind-blowing achievements than roulette wheel predictions, so the concept is not as unfathomable as it first appears.
The house may always win but the solid strength of maths outweighs all.
I’m not suggesting there is some mythical hidden key that has unlocked the secrets of winning on a roulette wheel every time, but we have spent time researching and trying 300 year old roulette strategies in a bid to see whether we can predict patterns and ultimately walk away from a roulette table with more money that we started with.
It is worth noting at this point one such strategy gave us a 160% return – we’ll explain which strategy, how it works and how you can use it in this article.
How to Choose the Right Roulette Numbers
Before we start delving into the concepts and wonderous roulette strategies philosophers, gamblers and mathematicians have studied for centuries it is worth stating there is no way to walk up to a roulette wheel and accurately predict the winning number with any certainty outside guesswork.
Gut feelings are all well and good, but they produce more losers than winners when wagering.
Although it isn’t possible to choose the right roulette numbers every time, it is possible to use mathematics and laws of chance together to create repeatable strategies to choose a range of numbers, or a wager concept that can put odds directly in the player’s favour.
The strategies mentioned are many, but the methodology behind them all is based on a mathematical concept that looks to provide statistical returns.
This may sound confusing, but don’t worry – we’ll break down some of these strategies and show you how we used them, and how you can too.
Mathematics and Roulette Prediction
Maths and science have been used throughout the ages for many predictions, but it wasn’t until the 1700s and 1800s when the likes of Paul Pierre Levy, Henry Labouchere and Jean Le Rond d’Alembert among others created roulette strategies that are still being used to this day – 300 years later!
Let’s have a look at some of these strategies, what they mean and how they can be used to try to beat the roulette wheel.
The Martingale Strategy
Created 300 years ago and refined around 70 years ago, the Martingale Strategy is arguably the most popular, and most used roulette strategy today.
Although the strategy is relatively simple, the theory is that the player will always return a profit unless they run out of money first.
This helpful infographic will explain this in more detail:
The player begins with £1 and makes a bet on either red, black, odds or evens.
- If the player wins, they play again for a £1 wager on, again, red, black, odds or evens.
- If the player loses, the play again but for double the previous wager, on red, black, odds or evens – so in this example the player would wager £2
This pattern continues.
As, after each loss, the player doubles the previous wager it means once a win lands, they will have won back everything they had lost so far.
This is why a player will always win unless they run out of money after too many consecutive losses.
The Labouchere Strategy
British wealthy aristocratic politician, Henry Labouchere, decided to take strategies to whole new complex level.
This process is what’s commonly referred to today as The Labouchere Strategy.
It’s quite difficult to explain, but the below infographic explains it nicely:
We’ve covered this strategy in more detail within other articles but suffice to say a player only needs to win 33% of the time on a red or black bet to be in profit, you’ll see how attention grabbing this strategy is!
Recommended Reading: We tried and tested ALL the best roulette strategies and were surprised by the returns we made, find out here
Beating the Roulette Wheel
Wagering at the roulette table is designed to benefit one party every spin, and that’s the house.
This is why there is a 0 on every UK roulette table, and a 0 and 00 on every US roulette table, and why each number carries odds of 35 to 1 when 37 or 38 numbers exist.
By randomly trying to beat the roulette table you will more often than come out at a loss, as of course its designed to be in favour of the casino, but as you can see by these two strategies alone there are ways to, overall, end up in a favourable position.
Nothing is guaranteed.
The Martingale Strategy can see a player run out of money before a win, and the Labouchere Strategy can cause a player to end with a similar demise.
What is clear though is to beat the roulette wheel is needs to be based on a mathematical strategy using laws of odds, sequence, and probability.
Best Roulette Strategy
At the start of this article, I mentioned a return of 160%.
This result was made using what we consider to the best roulette strategy which is the Labouchere Strategy.
We covered this earlier in the article.
We started with a £20 account and ended with £52 after just seven spins of the roulette wheel, giving us a 160% return.
From the 7 spins, we won 5 times and lost 2, so already the play worked in our favour as we would only expect to win an average of 3.5 times from 7 spins.
We didn’t just test the Labouchere Strategy, we tested a total of 9 different roulette strategies ranging from the 3 2 Strategy, Paroli Strategy and even the James Bond Strategy.
What interested, and shocked us, was a loss only happened using one strategy – the James Bond Strategy – where our £20 account was down to just £6 after 10 spins.
This meant 8 out of 9 of the strategies, a total of 88.8%, provided us with a profit or a break even.
Beating the roulette wheel isn’t fool-proof and doesn’t work 100% of the time, but these strategies do appear to give a player a better edge than random roulette guessing alone.