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Anyone who has made a trip to the casino recently, has certainly made an effort to check the board at the roulette table. Numbers are were the money is, we all know that. But betting on numbers is a quick way to blow through a ton of money, and playing too many numbers makes the winnings shrink. This is a method I use to supplement the numbers I play. Personally I play a mechanical wheel which stops all bidding before the ball is released, and changes ball density between rolls, so using any physics based system is impossible. But on the plus side, the machine displays the last 300 numbers to be hit and breaks the numbers into the 10 hottest numbers, and lists hit percentage per area of the board. for these machines, I recommend using my “Betting the Straight” method.
Before you read any further, take a moment and write down a dozen letters, in any order you choose. R= Red, B= Black. I recommend googling “Roulette Actual Numbers” and using those instead, as the human brain can mess with the randomness that is roulette.
To start, the concept is simple, just bet on the previous color. Anybody who’s been through a casino and looked at the board will see that the wheel rarely, if ever spits out Red/Black/Red/Black/Red/Black in perfect order. A more common scenario is Black/Black/Black/Red/Black/Black/Red/Red/Green-00/Red/Red/Red. Knowing this, you can use it too your advantage, to supplement you number choices while you gamble, as long as you use a 2/1 ratio. Meaning if your playing $1.25 on a set of numbers, you should be gambling $2.50 on an outside bet. This method is in no way intended to be a stand alone method to hitting it rich, that is strictly on your ability to hit the winning numbers, but if you want to able to afford to play those numbers all night then I recommend using this method.
Starting:
Always bet on the previous color, no matter how long the straight is. It was once recorded at a casino in Monaco that Red hit 39 times in an uninterrupted row. Using the 10 random pics I made up above, we will assume Red was the previous color, so
$20.00 to start
$2.50 on Red/Loss
$17.50
$2.50 on Black/win
$20.00
$2.50 on Black/win
$22.50
$2.50 on Black/win
$25.00
$2.50 on Black/loss
$22.50
$2.50 on Red/loss
$20.00
$2.50 on Black/win
$22.50
$2.50 on Black/loss
$20.00
$2.50 on Red/win
$22.50
$2.50 on Red/Green Loss
$20.00
$2.50 on Red/win
$22.50
$2.50 on Red/win
$25.00
$2.50 on Red/win
$27.50
As you can see there is a lot of back and forth, but by using this method you will have the additional coin to make the bet when you need it. I personally also tend to couple this with a variation of the Martingale method, until I hit $10 per a roll, then I drop back too $2.50 until it hits a straight again, or whenever the itch hits me and I feel lucky.
I realize a lot of people believe that this method may not increase your odds, but test it. I do know that all I had was a $3.00 ticket from the slots, and my girlfriend and I turned it into $150 on a single mechanical roulette machine, using this method. She picked 2 numbers, 1 of three rows, and $0.25 on 0/00 every spin for a total of $1.25 per a spin, while I focused on betting on the straights and we walked away with $150 (it did take us almost 2 hrs. but we didn’t feed any money into the machine, and had she not been playing losing #‘s, I would have made out better 
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If anyone knows of a method that is more effective for outside betting on mechanical machines, please feel free to chip in, would love to know your opinion!
