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    Decent book about Roulette

    Hi Girls and Boys!

    Could anyone tell me any remarkable and valuable book regarding of roulette that is worth reading and of course applying (maybe for cover play)

    Thanks very much!

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    The absurdly high House Edge makes this game forbidden territory.
    The notion that playing other games as "cover", I assure you is false.

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    Hi ferenc11

    You might want to read this thread. There was a good discussion of roulette there and also a book mentioned.

    https://www.blackjacktheforum.com/sh...Laurance-Scott
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZenMaster_Flash View Post

    The absurdly high House Edge makes this game forbidden territory.
    The notion that playing other games as "cover", I assure you is false.
    Geez, Flash. Maybe he's not an American, and the house edge is not absurdly high. Maybe he just wants a book on something that can theoretically be APed. Someone should have told me it was forbidden to bet $1 on black so I could flirt with that dealer...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boz View Post
    "the house edge is not absurdly high."
    Single Zero Roulette game house edge is 2.75%
    (if memory serves), and that is just plain awful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZenMaster_Flash View Post
    Single Zero Roulette game house edge is 2.75%
    (if memory serves), and that is just plain awful.
    Yeah, it's not good. But double-zero is the worst game on the floor. Singe-zero is generally better than all the other table games, excluding BJ, its variants, bac, and pai gow; ESPECIALLY when you consider roulette has no strategy, and the HE in other carnival games is based on optimal strategy--which no ploppy even comes close to executing.
    Last edited by Boz; 05-25-2016 at 09:07 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boz View Post
    " ... bac ..."
    The House Edge on Bank bets at (all forms of) baccarat is just a hair above 1%.



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    I'm not a roulette player, but a blackjack dealer in a U.S. casino told me that when he was a dealer in England, roulette was the most popular game. He said that in the English casinos, if you bet on red or black and it landed on zero (this was single zero European roulette), you would only lose half your bet. I have no idea if this is true, but if so it seems like this would reduce the house edge to something between 1-2%. Still unacceptably high, but not as usurious as the 5+% HE in US double-zero roulette.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CallSaul View Post
    "it seems like this would reduce the house edge to something between 1-2%"
    Receiving a half loss on a double zero wheel makes it the equivalent of a single zero wheel

    So ... you are still saddled with a 2.75% House Edge.

    Dreadful. Repugnant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZenMaster_Flash View Post
    The House Edge on Bank bets at (all forms of) baccarat is just a hair above 1%.

    I think everyone knows the house edge on bac, Flash. And my specific mention of bac being better is what you were quoting. What about Mississippi Stud, Ultimate Texas, 3-card Poker, Let it Ride, Caribbean Stud, and every other card game? All I was saying was 'Geez, Flash, it's not forbidden, you're making a hasty generalization" not "Geez, Flash, we should all Martingale roulette for positive EV."

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZenMaster_Flash View Post
    Receiving a half loss on a double zero wheel makes it the equivalent of a single zero wheel

    So ... you are still saddled with a 2.75% House Edge.

    Dreadful. Repugnant.
    Did you read my post? It was single zero. So wouldn't it be 2.75/2?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CallSaul View Post
    Did you read my post? It was single zero. So wouldn't it be 2.75/2?
    Yes, there are European single-zero games where you only lose half your bet on zero. And yes, it is 2.7 divided by two for a respectable house edge of about 1.35. Don't mind Flash, I think he just wants us all to know that he adamantly hates roulette.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boz View Post
    " ... you only lose half your bet on zero. And yes, it is 2.7 divided by two for a respectable house edge of about 1.35. Don't mind Flash, I think he just wants us all to know that he adamantly hates roulette."
    I have only seen the half-loss on outside bets on double-zero wheels.


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