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Sixteen Ways to Win at Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Baccarat, and Other Casino Games The above sentence is part of the title and is - not surprising - an overstatement. You can be warned already by the back-cover text as it tells you that the systems in the book are based on "dollar-cost averaging, a stock-market strategy...". Now, I wonder how someone possibly can implement stock-market strategies on roluette - or even try to do it. The stock-market is dealing with shares of companies and those shares are limited in number and so their price is set by the mechanics of supply and demand; if the supply is limited, the demand (and therefore the price) will be higher and vice versa. This is just not applicable to roulette as when the demand is high (you have paid very much - made many bets without a hit) the supply is just as limited as if you had a hit at the previous spin (and the price/demand is low - you have bet only a little). The way I interpret the above is that the author tries to tell you that a hit is "due" when you are high up in the progression - a variation of a very simple public domain money managing system. But there are more signals to alert you: The author cannot spell the name of the original system correct! Well, some (one) of my friends can't do it either, so maybe that isn't important. But I think it tells you how much confidence you shall put into this and how much background research has been put into the book. The author doesn't even know some fundamental basics of roulette: He suggests you to do a test (not actually use it for gambling, PHEW!) but that's not because of the built-in danger of the system but because he assumes you cannot use the system "invisibly". But the thing is that it is excellent for "invisible" playing (not for winning, though) if done the proper way! I am talking about how to bet all sides of a bet at the same time - the author actually suggests that you shall put the same amount of units (dollars) at each one of the dozens/columns at the same time, although a bet like that will give you a COMPLETE LOSS on zero and NOTHING if you "hit". No gambler will ever gain from doing such a stupid bet (see the article "The Most Stupid Bet" in the Reading Room for a detailed explanation of how to do it properly). And when he talks about doing this in an illegal number lottery, well, what can you say... Invisible Playing - that's the way, according to Mr Lembeck. What he means with that is that you shall never stay at one table for more than one bet of one kind. You can go on to the next table and bet the next step of your progression there, instead of staying at one and the same table for the duration of the session. And you can, mathematically, do that if you use a mathematical/automatic system as this one. But the reason to do it... You will be surprised when you find out that the systems work good at the kitchen table but not at all at the casino! That is; if you don't do it invisibly - only then you will have some chance to win. This is because - but Mr Lembeck says he cannot say so straight out - that the casinos are manipulating the wheel (or dice or cards or...). In fact, he is talking about rigged games at close to every page of the book and it is because of such games the systems don't work at the casino and you have to gamble invisibly. But I cannot make them work at all! Not at the kitchen-table, not at the living-room table and not when using my hobby-wheel. And I haven't rigged anything! But there is a sure way to win! Between the gambling advices and systems, Mr Lembeck also gives us his very personal philsophical (some would say religious) perspective of life and way back of the book he sums it up and gives you a way to win... well... Or could it be that Mr Lembeck will tell you, when/if you complaint about the systems, that you cannot win as long as you are not... no, that can't be so... or could it? Would you trust a person who tells you to bet in such a way that YOU will NEVER win ANYTHING but risking ALL to the CASINO? If so; I'm sure you will like this book and the systems (or system, rather, as it is variations of one theme). The rest of you should save your money! For "One Year in Hamburg" I selected the above mentioned columns/dozens system, in the book named Trilogy, used on dozens. The bankroll was 300 units per dozen, the table limit was 700 units according to the rules of Spielbank Hamburg, the first bet was at spin 20 and the last at spin 199 (180 spins) or at end of day if it was earlier. Each one of the three progressions was regarded as one session and a session was ended when the table limit or the target was reached, when the next bet was too expensive for the bankroll or at the so called "Half Peak". In any of these cases all progressions were interrupted. The two on-going sessions were continued, and the broken session was re-started from scratch, the next day. The author says nothing about quitting, except for the "Half Peak"... I lost 2.67% (close to the house-edge) after 246 sessions (one each day) and more than 11,000 bets. Top of page | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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