Zoo, I am glad someone responded to rhis post. I need to come up with a strategy for

my next trip to Macau. I had never played roulette before and it cleaned me out. To

my surprise, there are though strategies in roulette. I would very much like to try

them and wonder if anyone here has already experimented with them. Most if not all

depend on betting on Red/Black since your chances are the best: almost 50/50. 

For example, there is the Martingale stratey:

'Originally, martingale referred to a class of betting strategies popular in 18th

century France. The simplest of these strategies was designed for a game in which

the gambler wins his stake if a coin comes up heads and loses it if the coin comes

up tails. The strategy had the gambler double his bet after every loss, so that the

first win would recover all previous losses plus win a profit equal to the original

stake. Since a gambler with infinite wealth will with probability 1 eventually flip

heads, the Martingale betting strategy was seen as a sure thing by those who

advocated it.' (Wiki)

So all i have to do is to double the bet until i win! Easy money! has anyone ever tried this? 

• "In 1873, the Englishman Joseph Jaggers made the first famous roulette biased wheel attack. Mr. Jaggers with a team of six clerks, clocked all the wheels at the Monte Carlo casino and found one wheel to show significant bias. In their attack exploiting this flaw they won over $325,000, an astronomical sum in 1873. ^[14]

• In the summer of 1891 at the Monte Carlo casino, a part-time swindler and petty crook from London named Charles Wells, broke the bank at each table he played over a period of several days. Breaking the bank meant he won all the available money in the table bank that day, and a black cloth would be placed over the table until the bank was replenished. In song and life he was celebrated as "The Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo."

At least in the 1930s, some professional gamblers were able to consistently gain an edge in roulette by seeking out rigged wheels (not difficult to find at that time) and betting opposite the largest bets.

Thomas Bass, in his book The Eudaemonic Pie 1991 (published as The Newtonian Casino in Britain), has claimed to be able to predict wheel performance in real time. The book describes the exploits of a group of computer hackers, who called themselves the Eudaemons, who in the late 1970s used computers in their shoes to win at roulette by predicting where the ball would fall.

In the early 1990s, Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo believed that casino roulette wheels were not perfectly random, and that by recording the results and analysing them with a computer, he could gain an edge on the house by predicting that certain numbers were more likely to occur next than the 1-in-36 odds offered by the house suggested. This he did at the Casino de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, winning 600,000 euros in a single day, and one million euros in total. Legal action against him by the casino was unsuccessful, it being ruled that the casino should fix its wheel. ^[8][9]." (wiki)