Plan Of Attack

It’s said that there is a roulette system for every European - everybody brags that they’ve got a can’t-miss system for beating the wheel (especially if they’re trying to sell you said system).
There are essentially two types of systems that people try to use in beating the wheel: mathematical and physical.
Within days of playing roulette, everyone seems to develop some sort of math-looked but their unheralded genius has managed to devise within moments.
A mathematical system is a method of betting nearly each and every spin but using some sort of negative progression to recoup your current losses. The simplest is the Martingale. You pick a color, such as red, and you merely double your bet each time you lose. Eventually, so the reasoning goes, you’ll win and get all your money back plus your original wager, right? Well, actually, no! For a detailed discussion on why the Martingale is a horrible system, jump ahead to post 13. Otherwise, just know that every casino has a table limit that you can’t bet past. So if you lose more than eight times in a row, the table limits will keep you from doubling your bet again.
Then there’s the Labouchere, the d’Alembert, the Fibonacci, the Paroli, and quite literally a million others. If you want to know how many roulette systems there are, simply type “roulette system” into Google, and you’ll see every possible progression imaginable, all for the low, low price of a few thousand dollars.
Trying to use math to beat the math (which in this case is the house edge) is like trying to fight fire with kerosene. You can’t win.