SubT33
Rock Star
Silver Level
Last night while I played in a FR, just to pass the time so I wouldn't donk out, I read this golden thread entitled
is it just me, or is roulette easy to make money on?
Well, the thread is about a member (who is now banned, by the way,) who makes a post revealing his super system for winning at roulette. You can read the thread for more hilarious details, but it boils down to the poster not understanding odds. So I read the entire thread, invested some time in it while I played, got to the end and there was no climactic ending. I felt like I had wasted my time. Throughout the day today, I thought about the thread here and there, and then it hit me. One of the main points against the original poster was that the 0 and 00 made his system, and actually all of roulette, a losing proposition. He was betting the outside 12 numbered groups, which pay 3-1. So if you bet on one group, you have 36 total numbers and 12 are outs, 36-12 equals 3-1 right? Well yes, but the total numbers that can hit isn't 36 but 38 making your odds of hitting 38-12 which is 3.17-1 which is what? Ah, yes -Ev. This was a nice light bulb for me. I've understood pot odds, and getting your money in with the best of it, but this thread really put it home for me. I've always dreamed, "man, it would be nice to own a casino", sure it would, offering bets where the payouts are shorter than that of the odds of winning. It puts odds in a nice mental framework, I basically want to offer and accept bets where I have the edge...I want to be the house.
is it just me, or is roulette easy to make money on?
Well, the thread is about a member (who is now banned, by the way,) who makes a post revealing his super system for winning at roulette. You can read the thread for more hilarious details, but it boils down to the poster not understanding odds. So I read the entire thread, invested some time in it while I played, got to the end and there was no climactic ending. I felt like I had wasted my time. Throughout the day today, I thought about the thread here and there, and then it hit me. One of the main points against the original poster was that the 0 and 00 made his system, and actually all of roulette, a losing proposition. He was betting the outside 12 numbered groups, which pay 3-1. So if you bet on one group, you have 36 total numbers and 12 are outs, 36-12 equals 3-1 right? Well yes, but the total numbers that can hit isn't 36 but 38 making your odds of hitting 38-12 which is 3.17-1 which is what? Ah, yes -Ev. This was a nice light bulb for me. I've understood pot odds, and getting your money in with the best of it, but this thread really put it home for me. I've always dreamed, "man, it would be nice to own a casino", sure it would, offering bets where the payouts are shorter than that of the odds of winning. It puts odds in a nice mental framework, I basically want to offer and accept bets where I have the edge...I want to be the house.