The Whittacker Progression

Like the Martingale System, the Whittacker Progression is, as you might have guessed from its name, a progression system. Using a pre-planned progression, you either increase or decrease your bets according to your wins or losses, going along the progression sequence.

You’re going to construct your sequence as follows: write a sequence of numbers (as in the Labouchere System). We’ll use a Fibonacci sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13. Start off by betting one unit – $1. Bet $1 again. If you lose, you’ll bet $2. If you lose again, you’ll bet $5. If you win, at any point in the sequence, you’re going to cross off the last two numbers of your sequence – in this case, 13 and 8. Now, your next bet will be $5.

Like the Martingale, this system is one of negative progression. You’re going to increase bets when you lose, and decrease them when you win. In this manner, you will theoretically lock in your profits and recoup any losses with few spins. Something to remember: one losing spin can wipe your profits out in one fell swoop. Know when to call it quits.

As with any roulette system, while the Whittacker Progression can help you add methodology to your bets, it cannot, in any way, influence the odds in your favor. Chance is chance. The roulette wheel has no memory at all, and doesn’t care what happened on the last spin any more than it cares what will happen on the next spin.

Roulette Systems - Whittaker

Know what your loss limit it, and know what your profit goal is. Be ready to walk away from the table when you’ve reach either one, and remember: it’s a game. Play for entertainment, not for a living. Always keep your budget in mind, and keep it set in stone. You should be able to walk away from the tables with good memories, if not a profit.

Some may find that the enjoyment of the game of roulette is affected by sticking to a rigid progression system like Whittaker, but it is essential that you either follow these systems or not.   Sometimes when chance is conspiring against you this might feel difficult.  However if you have ever played a system like Whittaker with luck on your side it can feel like a license to print money.

Play Online Roulette for Free

When you’re learning the rules, or just testing a new betting system it’s very useful to have a place where you can play online roulette for free.   I always test the latest systems on free games before risking any of my hard earned money on them.   The problem is that the vast majority on online casinos are computer simulations, they select numbers using a software based random number generator and as such at best can be called Pseudo Random.

Play Online Roulette for Free in a Real Casino

Now the technology is pretty impressive and the vast majority of the algorithms completely fair, however this doesn’t alway extend to the free online roulette games.  After all there is no money at stake so the temptation is to tweak a setting or two just to make the game a little more punter friendly!   You’ll often find a generous free game where you claim healthy profits in imaginary money, then sign up for the real money game and find it a little more difficult!

There’s absolutely no point testing out the latest system in a computer simulation of a roulette game, any bias will destroy the whole point of the testing.   Luckily there’s no problem with finding a proper roulette table in a real casino that you can play online.

Here’s a screenshot of the Free roulette game -

A Free Online Roulette Game

You can see that the video stream in the top right hand corner is live,  it’s streamed directly from a Casino in Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin.  The games are all happening as you bet on them, the croupiers keep spinning the wheel whether there are players at the table or not (to cater for the online player).    This screenshot was taken in the early afternoon, but it’s more fun to play at night when there’s lots of real players who play alongside you.

It’s a lot more fun than just endlessly pressing buttons on a computer generated wheel, and remember the free game is identical to the money game apart from you win and lose tokens instead of money.  It’s is definitely the best place to try out any betting systems you have, it’s actually a very fun way to spend an hour or so.

It requires no installation, and just requires an email address to register.   It can definitely give you a flavor of the real roulette game although of course a little excitement is lost when you don’t play for money.  If you want to see it in action without registering I put a video of me testing the  - Martingale Betting Strategy with somewhat mixed results.