Playing Roulette As A Business: A Professional's Guide to Beating the Wheel [Paperback]

R. J. Smart (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 165 pages
• Publisher: Lyle Stuart (June 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0818405856
• ISBN-13: 978-0818405853
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #662,263 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "Playing Roulette As A Business" ? You will not last long!, January 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Playing Roulette As A Business: A Professional's Guide to Beating the Wheel (Paperback)

"Playing Roulette As A Business", basically outlines a negative betting progression, similar to martingale type systems. The Author Claims, that his specific wheel number's, when bet in his recommended manner, will outperform actual probability, due to thier positon's on the wheel. If indeed, these numbers did hit as often as the author suggest's, you would not need a betting progression to gain an edge. "If" this were the case, these magic numbers could be printed and sold on an index card, and there would be no need to waste an entire book on the subject. That is what this book is an "Entire Waste"!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Only .01% better than just picking a number! NOT WORTH IT!, December 21, 1999

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Daniel J. McBride, Jr. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Playing Roulette As A Business: A Professional's Guide to Beating the Wheel (Paperback)

This book makes itself appear to be an all encompassing winning strategy. It is not. I thought this book would have many strategies! All it has is 1 specific idea! And it only works on the double zero wheel! I was very disappointed. I tried out the system of play and it did not even put me ahead. I guess I could have stuck with it and waited to see the long term effect, but the idea in this book is stupid anyway. A person could write down this formula on a cocktail napkin(if he/she wrote very small.)It's based on placing the same bets over and over again, which is dumb because roulette is so unpredictable that you could absolutely never win if unlucky. It also uses progession(adding more $ for each loss), which is usually a bad idea. I really don't recommend spending your hard earned money on this. I think there are many, many better books with better ideas in them that I have read or own.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not all that bad!, June 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Playing Roulette As A Business: A Professional's Guide to Beating the Wheel (Paperback)

Nothing earth shattering as the previous review says but I wouldn't say this is horrible. It is rather innovative and although it is true you cannot overcome the edge via a progression no matter how clever this "system is not 100% garbage. I have used it many mnay times and far more often than not come out ahead in total. One CAUTION though as stated previously... this centers upon the distribution of the numbers and so this does NOT work with computer systems/simulation using pseudo-random number generators. If you want to play on-line I suggest you look at software that exploits the random number generators... there are several avail on-line.

Should you quit your job and stake everything on this system? Hell no.. but if you occaisionally hit the roulette wheel it sure beats playing your "lucky" numbers... I do agree there needs to be more on money management and stop losses. Have fun with this but remeber they call it gambling for a reason... there is always a risk.