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Don't Fall for the Myth of the "Easy Bet"
Roulette is simple; this is one of its virtues. A gambling newbie can approach a table and play as well as a veteran, simply by watching how others bet for a few minutes (in a land-based casino) or reading about the game online. Simplicity aside, however, myths about roulette abound and there are plenty of "tips" that fall into the "don't believe everything you read" category.
One of the most famous myths deals with a secret bet that gives players a 50-50 chance of winning. It works like this: Say you're at a double-zero roulette table; the wheel has 38 pockets. Bet on half of those numbers - any type of bet will do as long as 19 numbers are covered - and you should have a 50-50 chance of winning. So far so good, right? Wrong!
The reason the 50-50 chance of success is no big deal - and that it is the ultimate sucker's bet - is that the average profit when you win is less than what it costs when you lose. If you had, for instance, bet $1 on each of 19 spots and one of those numbers is hit, you win $35 for the 35:1 bet (which translates into a $17 profit after you subtract the $18 for the spots that didn't hit). But if you lose - and you will - it will cost you $19, so in the long run you will lose if you try to cover half the table.
Roulette is a Game of Chance and No Myth Can Say Otherwise
Another myth is that numbers become due as more spins go by without hitting, so you'll do best by letting the cycle mature. What a crock! Roulette is a random game. This means that past sequences of hits don't impact on future spins. The chance of any number in a double zero game is one out of 38 on any spin (and one out of 37 in a single-zero game).
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This is the case whether your "lucky number" has been hitting consistently, not won at all, or if it appears to be next in some logical order. No mathematical system will work - roulette is just a game of chance. Sticking to the same bet is therefore no better or worse than picking a number based on probability or statistics.
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A final myth is that you can predict the outcome at a certain roulette wheel if it is slightly unbalanced. Don't count on it. Nor can you count on the croupier - with his human idiosyncrasies - influencing the outcome either. Land-based roulette wheels are checked, calibrated, and repaired so frequently and thoroughly that irregularities won't get to a point where they influence results significantly. (And you can completely discount this myth when you play online roulette.) And land-based dealers cannot humanly influence the outcome of the game; there is nothing they can physically do over and over to make the same number pop up consistently.
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