Many people are enticed by the game of Roulette and specifically is it possible to win at roulette everytime. We’ll, the answer is no, but here's how you can increases your chance of winning:
 

• Find a Single Zero (European) Wheel: cuts the house advantage in half
• Get a Playing Partner: A friend or relative to play with you as a partner
• Playing Techniques: Ways for players to manipulate the casino comp system 
• Avoid Playing Systems: the Martingale and d’Almbert systems were designed to get a players dollars 

The objective of beating a casino game is to get more from a casino than he gives the casino. If you lose $1,000 on while playing, but you receive $1,300 in free rooms, food, alcohol and show tickets you have beaten the casino at their own game. You have gotten more from the casino than you have given them. The following steps illustrate just how a player can do that.

FIND A SINGLE ZERO ROULETTE WHEEL

This is an important first step in beating Roulette. The single Zero Roulette reduces the house edge from 5.26% to 2.63%, this gives the player a very good starting position. However, if the player can find it, the rare French Roulette wheel gives the player the best possible starting position with an advantage of 1.35%. The following chart gives the exact percentages for the American, European and rare French Wheel.
 

The next tip is to find a playing partner to go in cahoots with to swindle as many comps as you can from the casino.

PLAYING TECHNIQUES

The playing techniques aspect is where the players gain their edge. Roulette is a game that can be comp hustled under a specific set of circumstances. Roulette hustling relies on deception and misdirection. The first criteria, is that you must find a full table. By full I mean that you have ideally have to wedge yourself in to play.

The best time to play is weekends, holidays, big event days or at the very least a weeknight. Decide how you and your partner will bet, in a offsetting manner. One of you can play red and one can play black. Or one can play 1-19 and the other 20-36, one play even one play odd. The idea is to offset the losses with wins by the other party. Next bet a large amount on your first 3 off setting spins. 50 dollars is great 100 dollars is awesome.



Here the pit bosses will label you as a high-level player and rate your play as such. Your comp offers will reflect your level of play and you’ll be offered rooms, food and show tickets. After that, reduce your denomination to 25 or 15 dollars and then only one out of every 4 spins. Since roulette is the only game where players can fiddle with their chips constantly, it is easy to pull back your chips prior to the dealer saying “no more bets”.  Place your chips out on the felt constantly moving them around and then pull them back. Since the table is crowed there will be a lot of motion over the felt and no one will notice or care if you pull your chips back. Try to play with the action. If a few players are playing the outside bets with green or black chips place your bets next to theirs using the same chip denominations and pull back after a few seconds. There is multiple people playing and no one in the pit is paying attention so you will get credit for this play.

Every once in a while (1 in 37 times) the ball will land on the single zero. But with the reduced bet frequency the amount that the player will earn in comps between the two players will greatly surpass the amount of the loss. And the player will have beaten the game consistently.

AVOID PLAYING SYSTEMS

Playing systems were designed by casino owners to get their players money and should be avoided always. The Martingale system is far and away the most popular betting strategy known to recreational players. This is not because it is effective. It's because it is such a straight forward and simplistic system to apply.  

Over the years there has been dozens, and possibly hundreds of variations on the Martingale system. All of these variations orbit around the central idea of increasing the bet after a loss. In most cases the system is applied to games of chance that have a near 50-50 win to loss outcome, such as the Roulette black and red bets.



The traditional Martingale system simply doubles the next bet after a loss is attained. When a win is achieved the cycle begins anew. For example if the player starts with a 1 dollar bet and losses the first bet, the next bet would be 2 dollars, and if the player loses that bet the next bet would be four dollars. If that bet is won the cycle begins at one dollar again. This approach dictates that the player will win the largest bet of each betting cycle.

The d’Alembert betting system has characteristics similar to the Martingale in that the player increases or decreases their next bet dependent on the outcome of the previous bet. The d’Alembert betting system is popular among players who want to keep the amount of their bets and subsequent losses to a minimum.
 

The betting progression is very simple: After each loss, you add one unit to the next bet, and after each win, one unit is deducted from the next bet. Starting with an initial bet of 5 units a typical betting sequence would like the following:

• Bet 5 and lose
• Bet 6 and lose
• Bet 7 and win
• Bet 6 and lose
• Bet 7 and win
• Bet 6 and win
• Bet 5 and lose
• Bet 6 and win

The general point is that these systems do not and will not work. They should be avoided at all cost.

SUMMARY

The idea of comp hustling is to make the casinos think you have lost more money than you actually have. Some additional hints for making the casino think you are a losing player is to “rat-hole“ chips. This means placing chips preferably 25 dollar chips in your pockets as inconspicuously as possible over the course of play. This again gives the illusion that you are losing player. Be sure to be very nonchalant about this, you don’t want noisy croupier who will rat you out to the pit boss. Regardless of what they say, losing players ALWAYS get more stuff. So the more you look like a loser, the better off you are going to be, and that’s how you can win at Roulette everytime.

When craps players learn the basics of how to play craps online or offline, they’re taught that the time to make a pass line bet is on the comeout roll. If it’s not the comeout, you can bet on come instead, with the same basic odds and gameplay.

But what if you bet on the pass line and it’s not the comeout? Will the casino still accept your bet? Yes it will. A pass bet made on a roll other than the comeout is called a “put bet.”

WHAT IS A PUT BET IN CRAPS?

Put bets usually are a bad deal for players, but under certain conditions involving backing your wagers with free odds, put bets can be a viable way to play.

The reason they’re bad bets is because they’re made after the comeout, so there is no initial roll with eight ways to win and only four ways to lose. On a regular pass bet, you win on the comeout if the shooter rolls any of the six ways to roll 7 or two ways to roll 11, and lose only on the one way to roll 2, one way to roll 12 and two ways to roll 3.

Instead, the put bettor jumps into the action after a point has been established. You win if the shooter rolls your number again, and lose if he rolls a 7 first.

CRAPS PUT BETS HOUSE EDGE

The house has an edge on every point number. There are six ways to roll a 7 and only five ways to roll a 6, so if the point is 6 and you make a put bet, you’re a 6-5 underdog. Similarly, you’re a 6-5 underdog if the point is 8, 3-2 underdog if the point is 5 or 9 and 2-1 underdog if the point is 4 or 10.

Like pass bets, put bets pay even money. You’re being paid less than the true craps odds of winning, so the house edge on a put bet is 9.1 percent on 6 or 8, 20 percent on 5 or 9 and a whopping 33.3 percent on 4 or 10.

The lack of a comeout roll makes an enormous difference. If you bet pass before the comeout, the house edge is only 1.41 percent. With options such as 1.41 percent on come or 1.52 percent on place bets on 6 or 8, put bets usually are wagers to avoid, with four of the numbers even worse than the 16.67 percent edge on any 7.

However, you can back put bets with free odds just like you can take free odds on pass bets.

Free odds are secondary wagers made after a point has been established, and they are paid at true odds. Instead of being paid even money as on your pass or put bet, winning free odds bets are paid 6-5 if the point is 6 or 8, 3-2 if the point is 5 or 9 and 2-1 if the point is 4 or 10.

Let’s look at what that does and imagine you bet $5 in free odds on 6 a total of 11 times, and the dice come up in the normal proportions of six 7s and five 6s.

Your total risk is $55. On each of your five wins, you keep your $5 bet and get $6 in winnings. That’s $11 on your side of the table five times, so at the end of the trial you still have $55. There is no edge to the house.

The size of the free odds wager permitted varies from casino to casino. A dwindling few allow a free odds bet equal to your pass, come or put bet. Others allow your free odds to be twice your original bet, some allow three times, and it’s not rare to see five times, 10 times and sometimes even 100 times.

For a put bettor, it means you can choose your number, playing 6s and 8s while skipping the higher house edge numbers, and also put large proportions of your wager in free odds.

That doesn’t help a lot with relatively little in free odds. At low odds multiples, you’d be better off making a place bet on 6 or 8. Winners on those bets pay at 7-6 odds and have a house edge of 1.52 percent.

However, let’s look at what happens with 5x odds – that is, when your odds bet is five times your put bet.

Now on the same 11 rolls where 7 comes up six times and 6 comes up five times, you risk $30 per roll with $5 on put and $25 in odds. That’s a total risk of $330.

On each of the five winning rolls, you keep your $30 in wagers, get $5 in winnings on the put bet and $30 in winnings on your odds. That’s a total of $65 on your side of the table per win, and with five wins you have $325 of your original $330 at the end of the trial.

Divide the $5 kept by the house by $330 in wagers, the multiply by 100 to convert to percent, and you get 1.52 percent – the exact same house edge as on place bets on 6 or 8.

That’s the break-even point for put bets on 6 or 8 vs. place bets. With 5x odds, you’re getting as good a deal on place as on put. With more free odds, the balance shifts in favor of put plus odds. With 10x odds, for example, the house edge on a put-plus-odds combo drops to 0.83 percent.

With the other place numbers, the tipping point is at 4x odds. When your odds bet is four times your put bet, the house edges are 4 percent on 5 or 9 and 6.67 percent on 4 or 10. Those are the same as the house edges on place bets on those numbers, though neither place nor put-plus-odds is as good a deal as when the points are 6 or 8.

Do keep in mind that even on 6 or 8, getting the house edge as low as place bets requires wagers well above table minimums. Don’t overbet your bankroll and risk money you can’t afford to lose. If you wouldn’t normally bet enough to back a put bet with 5x odds or more, stick to smaller bets on pass, come or place bets.

You don’t have to be rich to play baccarat and you definitely do not need to wear a tuxedo or evening gown when you play. Baccarat has come out of the ritzy, high-roller tables and into the casino proper.

You can play for very reasonable sums on online casino and if you go to land-based casino there are usually a few mini-baccarat tables from which to choose. You will never have to longingly look at all those rich people acting, well, rich.
However, you must learn how to correctly pronounce the name of the game or you forever be banished to someplace you don’t want to be vanished to.

The game is not pronounced “back-a-rat.” No, it is pronounced “bah-cah-rah.”  If you call it “back-a-rat” you should only play the game in the back alleys of New York City where everyone mispronounces everything anyway.


So here are the top eight ways to play the game, seven of them are positives and one is a warning to avoid something that should be avoided. I’ll get that one over first.

STRATEGY TIP 1 - NEVER MAKE THE “TIE” BET

Baccarat has very low house edges on two of its three bets; those three bets being Banker, Player and Tie. Banker comes in with a house edge of 1.06 percent. Player comes in with a house edge of 1.24 percent. Your expectation is to lose 1.06 units for every 100 units wagered on Banker and 1.24 units for every 100 units wagered on Player.

Now, those are great house edges in the scheme of casino things.

And now the rotten bet, the Tie. That bet comes in (hold your breath ladies and gentlemen) with a house edge of approximately 14.4 percent. Yes, I am not kidding, 14.4 BIG percent. Yikes! That means you lose 14.4 units for every 100 units wagered.

This bet is a total waste of money and should only be played by individuals playing back-a-rat in alleyways.

STRATEGY TIP 2 - BANKER IS CLEARLY THE BEST BET

You come to the live baccarat table and you are going to make your first bet. That bet should be on the Banker. The Banker will win slightly over 50 percent of the time. In order not to give the player an edge on that bet every win has a 5 percent commission taken from it.

You might as well go with the Banker.

STRATEGY TIP 3 - KEEP GOING WITH BANKER UNTIL IT LOSSES

We are looking to capitalize on streaks and the bet that will have the (slightly) better chance for a streak will be the Banker. If you find that the Banker does go on a streak from your first bet then keep betting it.

Do keep in mind, however, that the fact a streak has occurred is no indication that it will continue to occur (meaning don’t be too aggressive with your betting amounts). You still face a house edge on every bet you make and you can’t bet your way out of such an edge.

STRATEGY TIP 4 - WAIT ONE DECISION AFTER A BANKER LOSS

So you finally lose on the Banker bet. Player wins. Don’t jump in with another bet. Wait for the next decision. Whatever that decision is then that is what you bet. Keep in mind that if the Tie is the decision neither the Banker nor the Player loses. (That’s why it’s called a tie.)

STRATEGY TIP 5 - MINI-BACCARAT CAN BE MAXI-DANGEROUS!

The traditional (meaning the high-roller room) version of baccarat, where players actually deal the cards, is a leisurely game; you might play 40 decisions an hour. But there is a fly in the ointment of baccarat. That fly is the mini-baccarat version of the game.

There are two major differences between traditional baccarat and mini-baccarat. The first and obvious one is that the dealer deals the game, not the players. The second is the fact that the game is fast, as in fast, as in some dealers will get of between 150 to 200 decisions! Yes, that is fast.



Yes, the table minimum bets are usually lower than the traditional game but 200 decisions even with 1.06 and 1.24 house edges can be devastating if things go against you.

If you are going to play mini-baccarat then you should utilize a Banker-only betting system. That’s right. You bet Banker until it loses. Then you wait until Player loses and go back to betting Banker. That will theoretically reduce in half (more or less) how many decisions you face. That will also theoretically reduce in half (give or take) your losing expectation.

STRATEGY TIP 6 - TIE BETS DO NOT COUNT

In this recommended style of play all Tie bets are invisible --- they don’t count; they are simply a pause in the action. If the sequence goes Banker, Banker, Tie, you treat the Tie as if it did not occur. You would therefore continue to bet Banker.

STRATEGY TIP 7 - RIDE THE PLAYER BET UNTIL IT LOSES

Here I am going to throw you a curve ball. When Player loses to Banker you will not wait out the next decision. You will immediately hop on the Banker. That’s right, when Banker wins you immediately bet it.

Now, should Banker lose, follow number 4! We are always looking for Banker streaks.

STRATEGY TIP 8 - MONEY MANAGEMENT IS CRITICAL IN BACCARAT

Essentially you are betting a coin flip when you play baccarat. That makes it a tight game. Still, even with coin flips you can experience outrageous streaks for good or ill. Good is good but ill isn’t.

If you are betting, say, 10 units per decision, give yourself 200 units as your session bankroll and should you lose that you take a break. And by break, I don’t mean you should yawn stretch and start playing again.

Get up and get out. Take a walk. People watch. Take a nap. Give yourself some decent amount of time before you start playing again.

If you have won a decent amount but you don’t want to quit right then; though you do want to leave the session a winner (whew, that was long winded), then split your win in half and only use that to continue your play. Lose it then take the rest of you win and go on break.

Baccarat is a fun game. If you have a friendly table you can get in some socializing as well.