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what a joke this site can realkly be not just in the poker but vegas has well the roullette has been a joke for weeks now i only leave 5 numbers out and it manages to go there 4 times out of five bet it woulnt do that if i only covered them numbers
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a man walks into a bar......... ouch
The maths are the maths - you have 1/37 chance of hitting the next number, but if you do you only get paid out at 1/36. Divide 1 by 37 - the difference - and you come back to the HE of 2.7%. This goes for all combination bets across the layout (one reason why the guy who developed the game a couple of hundred years ago was a genius - the HE is guaranteed, and never varies, under ALL circumstances). Hit a number in a corner and get paid out 8-1? 8-1 = 1/9, 9 x 4 numbers covered is 36, not 37. Bet on six numbers? 5-1 payout = 1/6, 6 x 6 numbers comes back to the magic 36, not 37 (the number of slots on the wheel). Vary your betting pattern? How does that change the payout table or remove the zero slot on the wheel? It doesn't. People have been trying to find a way to beat roulette since it first appeared, and nothing short of tampering with the wheel, or changing the payouts, will do so. It''s unlikely that an RNG for an online roulette game will have been tampered with as there's just no reason to do it - roulette has been making the parties that offer the games shed-loads for years.
What is of more note is the cost of playing roulette compared to online hold'em. The HE on single zero roulette is 2.7% and it never changes. Compare this to the minimum buy-in cost of 10% for poker tournies/SnGs, and you can see why poker is a nice little earner for the operators - over four times the edge in their favour of roulette. So if you're a player that wins as many as you lose, you still end up 10% of your total buy-ins or more out of pocket. So, if you're not playing at an advantage that is greater than the buy-in/rake at the level you play, eventually this edge will eat away at your bankroll. Any short term favourable variance will just put off the inevitable if all other aspects of your game (ie stakes) remain constant.
One final thought . . . . all bets, of whatever nature, will have an edge in them in favour of the party offering it. You may not know how it's been determined but it'll be there - a bit like a car; you may not know whether the engine is petrol, diesel or battery powered, but you can be sure as $#it there's one under the bonnet. Very occasionally bookies, casinos, operators etc slip up, and offer something with no edge or even an advantage to the punter, but it's rare and such gaps are usually plugged pretty quickly when someone smart works it out and takes them for a few bob. In the vast majority of cases though, the more you play and the more you bet, the more of your money you expose to the House Edge, and the more you stand to lose.
Stop playing roulette, unless it's purely as "paid entertainment" (ie you expect to lose whatever it is you're putting across the felt) and spend your time improving your poker game to a point where you can consistently beat the rake. If you achieve it, and remain permanently in the black, you'll be a member of a very exclusive club.
Good cards at the poker table.
50/50 on black or red. Now i could bet red every spin for the rest of my life and never win a spin once. Simply because i have a 50% chance of losing. All money you put in is -EV because you have 50 or less odds. Therefore routlette is a losing game imo.
Poker on the other hand is win win as i can play a range of 50% EV+ and the house makes their money off rake so has no need to rig for action.
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sky are rigging roulette? rly?wtf would they do this?
lool at bold you are my hero donaldooooooo
roulette is the devil the devil is roulette