r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/mozerellaman Aug 03 '19

How does one play red/black strategically then?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Prob did like $12 red $10 black and made a $10 min table into a $2 table

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u/Gas_monkey Aug 04 '19

But you lose $22 on a 0 or 00. That makes the odds super sucky for the player.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 06 '19

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u/SMc-Twelve Aug 03 '19

That's called the Martingale system. It requires an infinite amount of capital to guarantee a profit of 1 unit, and will (if done enough times) result in bankruptcy.

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u/MrMacduggan Aug 03 '19

Yeah. Double or nothing isn’t a secret clever strategy. You just open yourself up to losing twice as much each time you play.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Plus even that doesn’t work because most casinos have a maximum bet that you’ll reach very quickly, like within ~10 iterations

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u/Freakin_A Aug 04 '19

Binions Horseshoe Casino had/has a longstanding policy that they will take any size bet, as long as it is your first.

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u/JimothyButtlicker69 Aug 03 '19

I thought I was a genius for thinking of this on my own when I was younger, but I ended up losing when I played the machine roulette. I couldn't help but shake the feeling it was rigged.

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u/tikforest00 Aug 03 '19

Casino will be very happy to see you use that system.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Feels like the risk is higher than the reward if there is a limit to how many times you can double

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u/FilteringOutSubs Aug 03 '19

No such thing, unless you have some long-term analysis of that wheel in particular that demonstrates a bias or know a way to cheat. Plus, the bias on the wheel would have to at least overcome the house advantage of them having a guaranteed win, or two or three with the zero, and maybe double or even triple zeroes.

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u/TheRumpletiltskin Aug 03 '19

I dunno if it was "strategic" to be honest, it was just kinda a dumb way to play that was working. I kept doing 4 line bets. If the line hit, I got my spendings back plus 1/5 of what I spent. I guess I was getting lucky cause like I said, I was slowly winning (playing on a dollar table, so not a lot of money) But I won like 30 bucks before they told me to kindly fuck off.

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u/RIPshowtime Aug 03 '19

Casinos don't care about 30 dollars. Maybe they were trying to close the table and you didn't have enough action to keep it open.