Oscars Grind – Roulette Betting System

| Author : Anonymous

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.

I’ve just been trying out Oscars system in the new zero edge casino from betfair – no zeros on the roulette wheel at all ! I’ve made money on the two times I’ve played it here, it’s not surprising as these sort of systems work much better with no house edge obviously. Not sure if I’ve got the patience to play this regularly though.

This Post is Also Available in German – Oscars Grind

Martingale Betting Strategy – Success at Roulette

| Author : Anonymous

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!