People are always telling about the next hot strategy that they have. They always tell me that the roulette results with their system is something that will always improve their chances of winning. When people bring to me roulette results that I feel are too good to be true, then I like to run some test to verify the roulette results for the system. Let me give you an example of one such test.

Over the period of a few weeks, I kept a close eye on the roulette results boards at the casinos on the rounds that were being played. Every time that I saw a board that showed the same number had hit four times in the last two dozen spins of the wheel, I made a special note in my trusty notebook.

I also wrote down all of the next thirty-eight spins, just to check out if the figure in question would come up more or less than the one in thirty-eight average that we could expect of any figure on a good ole’ fashioned American wheel. I did this until I had covered one hundred different trials that recorded over thirty-eight hundred revolutions of the roulette wheel.

Out of the thirty-eight hundred revolutions, any number should show up an average of about one hundred times. If you cherry-picked any of the trials out and examined it, then the number in question would turn up a little more often, or sometimes a little less often, then just by random chance. But to be of use to any professional roulette players, the number in question (the one that was supposed to hit more often) had to come up much more then would be expected if you just looked at the odds.

What I found out was startling, especially for system players. My one hundred “choice” number came up a grand total of about one hundred and one times, out of thirty-eight hundred revolutions of the wheel. One of my trials showed that one of my choice numbers came up four more times in thirty-eight spins, in two trials it occurred three more times and in ten trials it happened twice more. And then there were the negative trials. There were fifteen of these where the roulette results weren’t so promising and the number didn’t hit at all.

So what does these roulette results tell the average player? Well, it basically tells him that he would be just as well off playing the numbers randomly as he would using the system in question. Some of the beginning numbers occurred more often, and some occurred less often then expectation. My little test didn’t show support for the system in question and I though that the roulette results were right around where the laws of averages and odds would expect them to be.

But I know what you are thinking. What about betting on any particular streak and placing your wagers on the numbers that are always hitting. Well, let’s see how that works. Let’s say that we bet one dollar on a single spin of the wheel, using one of these “choice” numbers. Over the course of thirty-eight hundred spins we would end up spending over thirty-eight hundred dollars. Now let’s see what we would have won. At the payout of thirty-five to one, with the number in question coming up one hundred and two times, we could expect to win thirty-six hundred and seventy-two dollars. That is a loss of one hundred and twenty-eight dollars. Not much of a “choice” number now is it?

If you want to beat roulette, then you need to get a system that works. While no system guarantees one hundred percent wins, playing with a strategy will help you win more of the time. That is, as long as the strategy is better then the one above and actually produces roulette results we can work with.