When you choose to play online Roulette, or any table game, in fact, it’s vitally important to have a bankroll management system in place. These are ways to control your bankroll in order to give you a better chance of walking away with a profit. While they can’t guarantee you a win, the house will always have an edge and they can allow you to ride out your losing streaks and make the most of your winning streaks. There are too many possible strategies to cover them all right here, so we have selected the three most popular to run through.
Martingale
The Martingale system is one of the most famous bankroll management strategies of all time. It essentially involves placing a wager on an even money bet. For example, red/black. Whenever you win, you keep your stake at the same level. If the bet loses then you increase your wager by double. If the bet loses again, then you double it again, and this continues until your next win, at which point you revert back to your original bet. This will then cover all previous losses and you can attempt to build a winning streak.
Paroli
The Paroli system is basically the opposite of the Martingale system, but still uses even-odds bets. In the Paroli system, whenever you win you will leave your payout on the table for the next round. So, this means if you wager 1 unit on an evens bet, you would receive 2 units for a win. For the next bet, you wager the 2 units: the risk is really the same as the first bet, but the potential reward is doubled. Of course, this could in theory go on forever, so you must choose when to stop doubling your wagers. If your bet loses then you go back to wagering a single unit and stay at that level until you place a winning bet.
D’Alembert
The D’Alembert system is similar to both the Martingale and Paroli system in that it’s based around even money bets. The way the D’Alembert system works is that when you lose a bet, you increase your wager by 1 unit; when you win, you decrease it by 1 unit. Say you lost your first 3 bets: your fourth bet would be 4 units. If you win, then the wager after that would be 3 units. This way you avoid increasing your wager to a huge amount like in the Martingale system, but you are also able to cover losing streaks with greater ease.