This website will bring you lots of news, reviews and information on playing the best gambling game in the World. The word roulette is actually derived from the French meaning ‘Little Wheel’. No one is entirely sure who invented the game, but my favorite version is that it was created by Blaise Pascal in the sixteenth century as part of an experiment to discover a perpetual motion machine. One of his friends saw the potential for a gaming machine and hence the origin of the game we love. I’d imagine he’d be pretty amazed to see how we could play online roulette now from our computers.

Roulette has always had a mysterious aura, one other version of the origin was that a Frenchman gained the knowledge of the game in return for selling his soul to the devil. In fact if you add up all the numbers on a roulette wheel you’ll reach the total of Six Hundred and Sixty Six, the so called number of the beast.

So for the romantic, the eccentric and thrill seekers amongst us, they’re is no better way to gamble. This web site is dedicated to the thrill of the game of roulette and how we can play it safely online. Remember roulette is a game of chance, when lady luck is with you she can make you very rich, but there are no guarantees, no certain systems despite what you read online.

Read all about these systems in this blog, they all sound convincing and people have been losing money to most of them for hundreds of years. The beauty of roulette is it’s simplicity and the transparency of the game. No hidden rules, no bluffing, just the spin of the wheel and wherever it lands determines your fate.

Roulette is ultimately about randomness, without this then the game is a waste of time. You will notice our bias away from the software based online casinos in this website. Although some of them can be fun, the problem for real gambling is that the randomness is controlled by an RNG (Random Number Generator) which is built into the games software. I prefer my random a little more natural than that.

So enjoy this site, we’ll be adding lots of news, stories, mathematics and some interesting stuff about roulette in the near future. But most of all enjoy your roulette wherever you play it.

Remember when you walk into a casino it may seem that the company is doing everything to help you. Certainly most of the successful casinos have some of the highest standards of customer service anywhere. But when there is something else to remember when you’re being offered your third free drink, or some cut price accommodation – and that’s that everything they do is really designed to extract the maximum amount of money from your wallet!

It might seem obvious but sometimes people forget this very simple fact. The casinos are very good at taking money from your bank account and putting it in theirs and just about everything they do has this end goal in sight.

Some Casino Tips and Tricks

Cash Machines and ATMs

You’ll find loads of these in most modern casinos, placed carefully so that you can quickly just get an extra couple of hundred dollars out. If you’re sensible you’ll have decided on your bankroll, but the temptation of these machines is very high when you’re convinced that your losing streak is just about to finish, or you have a great feeling about some table. Do yourself a favor leave your cash card at home and stick with the bankroll you decided on. Remember the casino want you take more money out because they expect you to lose.

Free Drinks

Great idea this, if you’re actively playing you can usually get free drinks. Many people who spend time in casinos see this as a great perk and a great advantage to gambling in a real casino as opposed to just playing online roulette. But again a little common sense will see that the casino knows that a few free drinks is never going to do any harm to their bank balance. There’s probably nothing quite like it for affecting both your judgement and worse the self control required to do well in casinos. Every gambler will end up paying through the nose for their drinks, a casino is possibly one of the worst places you can think of to get drunk ! Leave the Gin and Tonics for after you’ve finished playing, they may not be free in the bar but they’ll cost you a lot less overall.

Little Plastic Chips

This is another of the essential casino tips to try and get into your mind. Try and equate the chips with real money, when you look at a $50 chip try and think about the real stack of cash it represents – it will make you think twice about sticking a small plastic disk on a single number spin. The casinos tactic is exactly the opposite to try and break the link between the little chips and real money. Don’t devalue the chips, they can be instantly turned back into cold hard cash at the nearest cashiers booth. If you’re down to your last few chips don’t automatically gamble them away, just to get rid of them – you would be much more careful with your last few bucks.
Never forget what those little chips represent, because that’s exactly what the casino wants you to do.

Take a Break

Casinos are designed to insulate you from the real world. Its easy to lose a connection with the rest of the world and lose track of time. You’ll never see lots of clocks or windows in a casino, in fact you’d be hard-pushed to find out whether it’s night or day in most big casinos. Remember gambling is a fun activity it shouldn’t take over your life, always take some breaks and try and take a breath of fresh air occasionally to clear your head. You might remember that you haven’t eaten or slept for ages !
It’s an exciting, intoxicating world and it’s easy to immerse yourself completely in the lights and excitement.

The origin of this particular betting system goes back to the 1950s, Oscars grind was originally developed by a craps player called (not surprisingly) – Oscar. It was actually made popular a little later in the 1960s by a writer and journalist called Allan Wilson, who documented the system based on a conversation he had with Oscar. This system allegedly was the gamblers main income and he consistently earned regular but modest profits with the Grind system

Summary of Oscars Grind

For those who are looking for an exciting, whirlwind strategy that has the possibility of making your fortune then let me tell you straight away, Oscars system is definitely not it. I’m not sure who he was but I get the idea he may have been a very meticulous accountant or bookkeeper who devised this. Personally I think it would drain all the fun out of any casino game you could mention !

The system is best placed on even money bets in roulette and craps. It is based on sequences, each set of bets is defined as a sequence and you must follow the system exactly during each sequence of bets. Each sequence is designed to bring a profit of a single unit, no more and no less – when this win has been completed you start again or leave the casino.

So lets try and explain – first of all you place a single unit on an even money bet. If you win then there is no sequence so you start again (the sequence ends when you make a profit of 1 unit), if you lose then you continue to bet the same unit. If you win then your next bet is one unit larger than the previous one, you continue this progression until you’ve recouped your profits and made a single unit profit.

Bet and Outcome	Accumulated Loss/Wins
Bet 1 Unit and Lose	-1
Bet 1 Unit and Lose	-2
Bet 1 Unit and Lose	-3
Bet 1 Unit and Win	-2
Bet 2 Units and Win	0
Bet 1 Unit and Win	1
Sequence	Ends

So you can see in this example sequence, we’re betting a single unit on an even money bet. The first three bets lose, so we keep betting a single unit as soon as we win we increase the next bet by another unit up to two. In our example we come back to zero so our next bet is only one unit, the target is +1 nothing more and nothing less, as this bet wins the sequence ends. You can see none of the figures are large and the idea with Oscars Grind is to keep racking up winning sequence like this.

Here’s a slightly bigger example, remember goal is to reach plus one unit, we’ll never make a bet that takes it above that level.

Bet and Outcome	Accumulated Loss/Winnings
Bet 1 Unit and Lose	-1 Units
Bet 1 Unit and Lose	-2 Units
Bet 1 Unit and Lose	-3 Units
Bet 1 Unit and Lose	-4 Units
Bet 1 Unit and Win	-3 Units
Bet 2 Unit and Win	-1 Unit
Bet 2 Units and Lose	-3 Units
Bet 2 Units and Lose	-5 Units
Bet 2 Units and Win	-3 Units
Bet 3 Units and Win	0
Bet 1 Unit and Win	+1 Units

Little bit longer here but you can see from the example, the sequence is a winning won with the required outcome of +1 Unit. It’s not a reckless system and in fact some people accuse it of being too conservative for a gambling strategy. But remember it does nothing to alter the house advantage or edge so you should always set up a maximum limit that you will stick to. It’s possible with Oscar’s Grind just like Martingale to be placing a very large bet just to recoup a single unit of profit.

Many betting systems and strategies often get a very bad name because of the way they are promoted. Take for instance the Martingale Betting Strategy, the problem with Martingale is that it often portrayed as a guarantee of riches, a ‘no lose’ betting system. Unfortunately this is simply not the case, and as with every other roulette system ever invented – there is no guarantee. Here’s how I got on testing the martingale betting strategy in an online casino, I was missing one vital component to making this system work – luck !

How to play martingale

As you can see if you watch the video, you can easily lose lots using martingale. However if your luck is better than mine it can just as easily win you lots as well.

In fact that’s simply the important factor all these system require – luck, if you could guarantee that somehow you’d be on to a winner. One of the most famous cases of winning with the martingale system is by a gentlemen called Charles Wells in 1891.

Now Charles Wells was rather a colorful character , a bit of a rogue, a gambler and to be honest a confidence trickster. In 1891 he managed to persuade lots of people to invest in a non-existent invention of his called the musical skipping rope. After fleecing his investors he dashed off to Monte Carlo with his ill gotten £4000 in his back pocket.

Charles Wells started an 11 hour gambling session in the main Monte Carlo casino using the high risk martingale strategy and won over a million French Francs. At one point during his session he actually won 23 times out of 30 spins of the wheel.

But it didn’t finish there, in November of that year he returned to Monte Carlo for another huge gambling session and again won over a million Francs. At one point he bet on the number 5 – 5 time in a row and won each time – work the odds out of that happening. Again for most of his gambling he based his system on the Martingale betting strategy.

Charles Wells is usually credited with being the inspiration behind the song, “The man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” although nobody is quite certain. Breaking the bank is not actually as hard as it sounds though as it refers to winning all the chips on a single roulette table – not clearing out the entire casino (something that nobody has ever done).

There were many people who were convinced Charles Wells had some great system or strategy, he himself true to form pretended his wins where down to his engineering expertise. The truth is that he had played mostly using the high risk Martingale betting strategy and had actually just been spectacularly lucky !

That is the truth behind most of these roulette systems and strategies, if you have that vital ingredient luck then you will win with Martingale or whichever betting system you use, but you’d also win by throwing chips blindly on to the table as well with that sort of luck. The problem with the systems is that people think if they just keep on using them they are guaranteed to win in the end which is especially dangerous with something like Martingale.

Unfortunately it didn’t end up that well for Mr Wells, as his long line of fraud and confidence tricks finally caught up with him – he ended up serving prison sentences in both the UK and France. He died penniless in Paris in 1926 at the age of 85. Over 120 years later you’ll still see people excitedly ‘discovering martingale’ and setting off to make their fortune in a casino with their new secret system!