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Roulette Common mistakes that novices make

shaqque

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I cannot dispute the fact that no one is error-prone, but what are some of the common mistakes you have seen people, and especially novices, make? Roulette can be a simple game but these errors normally prove to be costly in most cases. The one mistake I see most people make is playing bad bets. For instance, betting on single numbers is not advisable because although the payouts are big, there are normally very little chance of winning.
 

Fiona

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The most common mistake that I have seen is not knowing which version to play. They will pick the game that they haven't done any research on, so they end up not knowing what to do. The worst game someone who is starting out can pick is American Roulette since the odds are terrible.
 

gizmotron

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The most common of all has to do with superstitions, magical thinking, and assumptions based on gambler's fallacy. Once the novice player moves on from blind, mechanical driven strategies like negative progressions, if they don't give up altogether, then they consider situational awareness. I have found that even though spins are not connected mathematically they are connected coincidentally. If a person can't see a streak of 18 reds in a row, then perhaps it is only because they are not looking in the first place. So this is a bit beyond the novice but it seems to be the direction of many Roulette players that stick with it over the years.
 

Addie

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That is true, gizmotron. I have heard of a lot of people thinking that they are winning or losing because of some mystical power. The most common mistake that I've seen is that new players place too many bets in a single game. Roulette is a very slow game and using all of your bets, in the beginning, is bound to make you lose the game.
 

gizmotron

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Once I watched a guy quit his job because he thought that the number 32 was his ticket to the good life. He went on a plus $11,000 run and gave it all back plus $6,000 more within a single three day weekend. Yikes
 

steve

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It's so easy to learn facts about gambling. But new players are often hard headed and just want to do it all and learn themselves. And it's a costly experience.
 

steve

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Gizmo if someone tried to explain his mistake, he probably would have thought the person trying to help them just didn't know any better, or was jealous. It's very common delusion and we see it every day on gambling forums. Most players don't even understand the basics.
 

gizmotron

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steve said:
Gizmo if someone tried to explain his mistake, he probably would have thought the person trying to help them just didn't know any better, or was jealous. It's very common delusion and we see it every day on gambling forums. Most players don't even understand the basics.

We can hope that they will come to forums like this and learn how to play safely before they actually go to the casino with their bankrolls. If they can do it at home in practice then they might be able to do it in a real casino at another time. There is no substitute for experience.

This is a true story. My older brother was 23 and my sister was 21 so my brother took here to Lake Tahoe to do some gambling. He had never done that before but being big brother he was going to show here how it's done. So they walk up to the Roulette table and he places a $5 bill on the table. He wanted to get some change. It was a $1 table where you could bet 25c chips. He didn't know it but he put the $5 on Black. The next spin landed on Red. The dealer took the $5 and that was that. So my brother turns to my sister and says, "That's all you need to know about gambling."

Now she is an addiction specialist certified in addictions and family practice, as a working therapist for a county in California, and my brother is a known Psychologist , academic that writes text books. They both know that I'm crazy and that I love to gamble. There is no way on this side of the galaxy that they would ever or could ever listen to me.

She was nice to me a few years ago. She was one of the first ten students. I taught here face to face. She never went to a casino to try it. I even got her a real table felt and a bunch of real weighted chips so practice would all seem real to her.

I wonder what they will all do when they find out that I've succeeded in finding the true holy grail of Roulette through randomness studies. Anyone that knows me knows that I go on and on endlessly harping about randomness and trends. It's just my thing. A
 

clyne

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Wow gizmotron; what a description of the situation with your older brother and sister regarding gambling. I guess you have won many times before but that will never convince them that you understand what it is you are doing. The single most important thing is for a gambler not to assume that winning anything has to do with any mysterious or magical powers. Instead, it involves a lot of brain work and strategy.
 
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