Roulette: Playing to Win

Author: Brett Morton
Publisher: High Stakes
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PLAYING TO WIN

so that, by then, you will have learned enough about roulette and my philosophy, to judge those four different techniques for yourself.

Tip: Avoid the temptation to read that chapter first! Studying that chapter in isolation will not ensure success for you. The real tips are in the rest of the book.

Ratings

Later in the book, when describing staking and playing systems that I have tested, I have rated them out of 10. No system has yet scored 10 -1 am still looking for that magic bullet! Meantime, I'm happy to be a winner using fallible system.

Discipline

Do not think that you can simply take on the casino with just 100 chips and within a few days or weeks automatically achieve the same success. When many casinos expect a 5 chip minimum bet on even chances, 100 chips is a small number to use. You could lose the lot in a mere 20 consecutive spins. Yes ... even on a near 50-50 chance, you can be wrong 20 times in a row ... and sometimes more! I had saved up my cash for a Fighting-Fund of 1,000 chips. It was there, a sleeping giant, available if I had perpetual runs of misfortune. I never needed the 1,000 chips because I started with tiny bets, fighting to protect my 100 chips. Later, I shall set out the essentials of how much you need and why.

You may be able to follow the suggestions in this book and impatiently start with 100 chips with nothing in reserve and get away with it. I don't recommend it. One of the many reasons why people lose is because they have too little money to see them through the bad runs. Casinos have bad runs too. The difference? They have the cash reserves to ride the storm.

My rules have developed not simply from playing and watching in casinos as far apart as Sydney, Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, Biloxi, London, Glasgow, Monte Carlo, the Bahamas and the riverboats south of Chicago. They have developed from watching big winners and even bigger losers, from listening to casino staff, casino managers and talking to other players whether at the bar or at the

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