How to Use the Martingale System for Roulette

Of all the roulette systems in the world, perhaps the oldest and the most popular is the Martingale system. The idea is to double your bet every time you lose to get back to your starting point, and then win from there.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Use the Martingale System for Roulette

1. Play progressives. This is the basis for the Martingale system of roulette betting.

2. Bet only on even money bets. The even money bets are black/red, high/low even/odd.

3. Place your chip on an even money bet. If you lose, double your next bet.

4. Lose again and simply double your next bet and so on and so on. With each progressive loss, double your previous bet.

5. Use the Martingale system for roulette only as a very short-term strategy. It will not work in the long run and there's even no guarantee it will work in the short run or ever.

6. Learn more about the use of the Martingale system for roulette by finding a book about it (see Resources below).

Understand the Flaws in the Use of the Martingale System for Roulette

7. Look closely at this system, or any roulette system, and its faults become apparent.

8. Assume you are at a $1 minimum bet roulette table.

9. Place an even money bet. Bet on red, for example.

10. Lose the bet when the outcome is black.

11. Place another even money bet but this time bet $2.

12. Lose again, place another even money bet, and this time bet $4.

13. Lose again and bet $8, then $16, $32, $64, $128 and so on.

14. Remember that almost all tables have a maximum bet. If you are playing a $1 table, the max bet is probably $100.

15. Notice that after just eight spins you will exceed the max bet and you will have lost a lot of money in hopes of gaining back the single dollar you started with.

16. Know that losing eight consecutive even money spins is an easy thing to do. You may think that if you keep betting red, eventually it will come up, but there is an equal probability of red or black on every spin. So yes, red will eventually come up, but it is quite possible that the wheel could land on black for 100 spins in a row. And you now know that it only takes about eight spins to exceed the maximum bet for a table.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't be fooled by any surefire betting system. Anyone who claims to have a system that will enable you beat the odds in the long run does not understand mathematics or is blatantly trying to cheat you.