Customer Reviews

Gamble To Win Roulette

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I have had excellent luck using the strategies in this book. The only time it has ever failed is when I did not bring enough money to cover the 2 complete series recommended when the table turns favorable (but invariably still works as I watch helplessly with nothing to bet with!). Believe in this book and this system -- it really works.

Of all the gaming strategy books I have read, the Gamble to Win series has been the most helpful and informative to me. These books take you more into the head of the professional gambler than any other. And now, with Gamble to Win Roulette, the author apparently offers a strategy that reverses the casino's mathematical edge. For my money, there is no better book out there.

Ever since having read R.D. Ellison's "Gamble to Win Craps", I have considered it to be the very best of the 20 or so books that I have read on the subject. This changed when I read his new (May 2002) offering - "Gamble to Win Roulette".

This book succeeds on two very important levels if your intention is to win at roulette. Firstly, it contains a method of bet placement and money management termed 3Q/A Reverse Select that has been subjected to 7,500 actual casino spins, which resulted in a player advantage of 7.94%. For the price of printing and postage ($4.00) the author will send you the specific results of these spins. Does it work? This reviewer intends to find out. Secondly, as in his craps book, there is a wealth of practical advice from someone who has "been there and done that". It is the flipside of the coin (so to speak) for success - the realistic application of the method, which includes player psychology, getting started, playing the Internet, to name but a few.

If you believe that a sure way to succeed at anything is to emulate those who have succeed before you, and replicate their actions while heeding their advice - buy this book! I believe that the blueprint for success at gambling is contained within Ellison's book. If that is goal - buy it now!

I have played Roulette and found that the house has that 5.26 edge that really hits you. Then I found this book and it is extreamly amazing. It was tested using Spin Roulette Gold a book that tracked over 3000 live internet decisions at actual tables in Vegas. I kept track of my winnings and starting out with 100 bucks I got up to 700 bucks within 3 hours of playing time. I had such an edge it was amazing. As a matter of fact, I am afraid that once the word gets out about this book they will have to change the rules of roulette because you will empty the tables bank. So a suggestion if you use this book to generate income, dont be greedy: play on different supervisor shifts and dont play using big denominations or you will draw attention to yourself and the casino will start to watch and see what you are doing. Remember..your gain is the casinos loss and there is no one that likes to lose money. Go ahead. Test it yourself. Have any tracking cards from when you played roulette at a casino? Go over the decisions you wrote down. Or get the roulette tester or Spin Roulette Gold book by Scobette and test it with that. See for yourself. Im going to vegas with this book and Im going to start making bank deposits.

I have researched and tested many Roulette "systems", and the 3Q/A seems to offer the best and most practical way of beating the wheel that I have seen. Although I do not have long term statistics from live play, the 3Q/A holds up against real spins recorded in several books and websites. The real test will be live against the wheel, however, I am most confident with what I have seen thus far.

After spending much money on other roulette systems, and countless hours trying to figure out how to win this game, I go to the bookstore and pay $15 for this masterpiece. $15...that is all it takes for me to beat the game of roulette. Isn't that ironic? I have achieved about a 14% player advantage over the house at the game of american roulette.
This is by far the best book I have ever read on the subject. It is also the only system that I've ever tried that actually works in the long run. I read through this book 3 times and applied my own betting scheme to the main system discussed in this book. The author says it yields a player advantage of 7.94% (on the back cover). He was not joking. I am averaging $85 per hour with this system. And that's just with $5 chips. If $25 chips are used, it will blow your mind!
The hardest part was coming up with my own betting scheme. The author gives some examples in the book and then he lets you decide which one is best for you. The other hard part is patience. He states that most gamblers (including the people who left one-star reviews for this book) will not have enough patience to beat roulette or any other game for that matter. This is because casinos are designed to make you get greedy, and blow your savings account like there's no tomorrow. But, if you are in that tiny percentage of patient people in this world, you might have a chance using this system. You also have to really enjoy the game of roulette.
I recommend this book to the serious player and also to the part-time roulette enthusiast. You can even use the system for fun if you are not a serious player. Using a progression, you have the potential to dominate the tables. With no progression at all, the worst you can do is break even in the long run. That's a whole lot better than blowing your load.

The author inexplicably overlooks an irrefutable fact - namely, that each and every bet on a roulette wheel has a negative expectation. And that no formulation of negative expectation wagers will attain a positive result - period. And probably the height of fatuity is the authors adice to his readership that his system is best played against an double-zero American wheel, which has a house percentage in excess of 5%, rather that a single-zero European wheel, which has a house percentage of a little over 2%!

I've had the book for a good while now, but it's so much psychobabble. It just goes on and on with stories but no actual value (at least for me). A roulette system that really has worked out for me is the Roulette Cash Cow (do a google search) There are many other out there like Martingale and Andrucchi but Roulette Cash Cow is the best.

Any book holding the word "win" in its title is a waste, especially for roulette. It simply ignores the mathematical facts. Besides, the approach has nothing scientific: just a personal system that will never work over the long run. Moreover, the author suggest that the house advantage will be waived (another proof of total lack of mathematical knowledge). For understanding how the roulette really works get a book on mathematics of roulette (I recommend Barboianu's book). As for increasing your chances to win, it is better to bet more rather than buy this kind of "how-to-win" books.

I bought this book because it was the first book I have seen that DID NOT promote a SYSTEM to beat the tables. I have used the techniques in the book and was using them even before I bought it. The techniques work - not all the time because NOTHING ever does - but they do work. Read this book and learn about what really happens at a roulette table and what you should be looking for. I think this book has a ton of knowledge to offer. If you are looking for a "system", please, give it up. Find books and teachers that offer knowledge and techniques to win - systems never do. Remember - everybody has a system but noboby is rich - interesting - hmmm.