Betting Strategies for Roulette · Baseline · 7 min

Flat Betting Strategy for Roulette

Di same stake every spin. Di flat betting roulette strategy na di baseline wey you suppose compare every progression with.

Short answer

Flat betting get di lowest variancemathsVarianceOne measure of how wide di results dey spread around di expected value. E high for straight up, e low for even-money bets.Read di whole tin → for each unitmoniUnitDi base stake wey system or player dey work with. Dem dey describe progressions in units so dat dem go fit work for any table.Read di whole tin → of expected loss, and di expected loss for each session na just stake × spins / 37.

expected loss
stake × spins / 37
$10 × 100 spins
−$27
variance
di lowest
p(profit, 100 spins on red)
≈ 42%

Why e be di baseline

Without progressionstrategyProgressionAny rule wey dey change di stake based on di results wey don pass. Negative progressions dey raise am afta losses, positive ones afta wins.Read di whole tin →, di amount wey you go bet don fix before you sit down: stake times spins. So di expected lossmathsExpected lossExpected value times di total moni wey you bet; di average amount wey you go lose for one session or one period.Read di whole tin → don fix too, at 1/37 of dat one. Every progression dey bet more for average, becos stakes dey rise when you dey lose, and so e dey lose more for average. Flat bettingstrategyFlat bettingTo bet di same amount every spin. Na di baseline wey dem dey compare every progression with.Read di whole tin → na di way wey cheap pass to play any number of spins with any base stake.

Expected loss, $10 base, 100 even-money spins (averages wey we simulate)$
Flat
$27
Paroli
≈ $30
D’Alembert
≈ $38
Fibonacci
≈ $45
Labouchère
≈ $60
Martingale ($500 limit)
≈ $75
$
037.50≈ $75
All of dem na 2.70% of turnover. Di progressions just dey turn over more. Di exact figures depend on di limit and di bankroll; run di simulator.

Di shape

Even-money flat betting for 100 spins: about 42% of sessions dey end with profit, di median na small loss, and extremes wey pass ±$200 at $10 rare (about 5% of sessions). Di distribution na bell curve wey centre on −$27 with standard deviationmathsStandard deviationSquare root of variance; di normal distance between one result and di expected value.Read di whole tin → of $100. Straight-up flat betting for di same spins get di same centre and standard deviation of $584: fewer sessions wey win (about 31%) and winners wey big well well.

Ten sessions of flat betting, $10 on redresult vs where you start
+$420$0−$500+$180−$2500125250375500spinsresult
1,000 sessions × 500 spins · violet p10/p25/p75/p90, light blue median, 83 faint samples · move mouse on top di chart to see quantiles for one spin
  • p10 −$420
  • p25 −$280
  • median −$140
  • p75 +$20
  • p90 +$160
1,000 sessions × 500 spins · we cut di y-axis for 1st–99th percentile (di extremes na −$500 to +$640) · 500 spins · $10 base · even-money bet

How to choose di stake

Expected loss for each hour na stake × spins for each hour / 37. Decide wetin one hour of play worth to you as entertainment, divide am by di spins for each hour of di table wey you wan play, and multiply by 37. For live table of 50 spins, $10 budget for each hour fit carry $7.40 stake. Most pipo dey find dis calculation clear and e dey reduce dia excitement small.

budget for each hour50 spins/h100 spins/h200 spins/h
$5$3.70 stake$1.85$0.93
$10$7.40$3.70$1.85
$25$18.50$9.25$4.63
$50$37.00$18.50$9.25
stake = budget × 37 / spins for each hour. Double di stake for even-money bets for la partage table.

Flat betting with stop rule

To add stop-lossstrategyStop-lossOne amount of loss wey you set before, wey you go end di session when you reach am.Read di whole tin → and stop-winstrategyStop-winOne profit target wey you set before, wey you go end di session when you reach am.Read di whole tin → dey turn flat betting into di closest tin wey roulette get to controlled purchase: you sabi di maximum cost, you sabi when you go leave, and di house edgemathsHouse edgeDi part of each stake wey di casino dey keep for average: 2.70% for European roulette.Read di whole tin → dey apply only to di spins wey you really play. E no sweet like progression, and na exactly di point be dat.

Stop-Loss / Stop-Win

Wetin flat betting no fit do

E no fit make di expected valuemathsExpected valueDi average result for each bet for di long run. −1/37 of di stake for every standard European bet.Read di whole tin → positive, and e no fit make 100-spin session get chance wey pass about 42% to end with profit for even money. Players wey need di feeling of to win most nights go dey move go MartingalestrategyMartingaleProgression wey dey double di bet afta every loss. Check di Strategy section to see wetin e dey do and wetin e no dey do.Read di whole tin →, and dem suppose read dat page first.

Simulator · Flat bet

2,000 sessions of even-money bets from $1,000 bankroll.

Base bet $10 · table limit $500 · 100 spins for each session

How di session results spreadloss ← | → profit
−$440$0+$280
put mouse on top bar · red bars na sessions wey lose, green na di ones wey win, di pale bar dey cross $0
sessions wey get profit
34.5%
di median result
−$20
di mean result
−$30.12
lose everytin
0.0%
5th percentile
−$200
median of di biggest drop
−$120

Questions wey pipo dey ask

Flat betting na strategy?

Na wetin you get when strategy no dey, and na why e be di one wey cheap pass.

Which bet I suppose flat-bet for roulette?

Any variance wey you enjoy. Even money for long smooth session, straight upsbetStraight upOne single number, e dey pay 35:1.Read di whole tin → if you want feel like lottery. Di cost na di same.

Flat betting dey work better for French tables?

Everytin dey work better for French tables: di even-money edge dey cut into half.

Small laugh

Stake × spins / 37. Notin hide.

Stake × spins / 37. Notin hide.

Sources

  1. RouletteDoc. How di strategy dey work, with examples. https://roulettedoc.com/strategy/masse-egale
  2. Roulette77. How di strategy dey work, with examples. https://roulette77.us/strategies/masse-egale
  3. Ethier, S. N. The Doctrine of Chances: Probabilistic Aspects of Gambling. Springer, 2010. Chapter 13, wey tok about roulette.
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