Roulette Odds In A Row

Record Breakers….
What is the record for the number of reds that have been recorded in a row on a roulette table? Actually, we are interested in any of the even money bets, so red/black, even/odd, high/low and so on.

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This question is particularly interesting for players of the Martingale Roulette system and goes right to the heart of the Gambler’s Fallacy- that mistaken belief that if you see 5 reds in a row, the next result is more likely to be a black. This is a myth, of course- each and every roulette spin is what’s known in statistics as a mutually exclusive event. There is always an equal chance of red and black coming up on an individual spin- the result is in no way affected by previous results.

Marty System
Martingale players are also interested in this question, because this system involves you doubling your bet after a loss. It’s generally played on the even money bets, and the idea is that at some point you will win and claw back all of your previous losses.

• The table below lists both the ratio and percentage probability over successive numbers of spins. Example: The probability of the same colour showing up 6.
• Street - The payout will be 11 to 1 (with a percentage chance of 8.1% in European roulette and 7.9% in American roulette) as you are betting on a row of three numbers (i.e.
• The payout for this bet is 17:1, and the odds of it winning are 5.41% for European, and 5.26% for American roulette. Street is a three-number bet, where the players bet on a row of numbers – for example, 4, 5, and 6, or 19, 20, and 21. The probability of this bet winning is.

In total there are 37 slots for the roulette ball to land on. The odds that the Roulette ball will land on red is 18/37 = 48.6%. The odds that the ball will land on red two times in a row is 48.6% x 48.6% = 23.6%. The odds that the colour red will hit three times in a row is 48.6% x 48.6% x 48.6% = 11.4%. The record was registered in 1943, when red color came up 32 times in a row! The probability of such event in French Roulette is (18/37)32 = 0.96886885 with the corresponding odds 10,321,314,387:1.

Players often look out for long strings of the same result, such as R,R,R,R,R. They’ll then bet on black in the hope that the results will flip back to black to restore the long term equilibrium, something that the D’Alembert system also tries to do.

If you are going to play the Martingale…….

Start your bets low and choose a table with a high limit. That way you will at least give yourself the biggest room for manoeuvre if you suffer a string of losses.

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But if you experience 10 reds in a row, that will blow most Martingale players out of the water, as they’ll either throw in the towel or hit the table limits, after which they won’t be able to double their bets and cover their losses. It’s difficult to figure out the best roulette strategy under these circumstances.

Repeat after me……
These long strings of the same even money results are rare, but they do happen, so you need to factor this risk in if you are playing the Martingale. There are two main risks to this system- one is that you experience a very long string of the same result. The other is that the ball drops in to the zero pocket- that pesky little area that gives the casino its house edge.

You can devise strategies to counter this of course. You could bet with the flow of results rather than against it after you see, say, 5 in a row (but you might have picked the exact time that this wheel of all roulette wheels decides to behave more “normally”). You could also choose a game that offers La Partage which will at least soften the blow of the ball landing in the zero pocket. La Partage is a rule followed by some casinos where they refund half your even money bet when the zero drops in. Many French roulette games offer this.

The Record For the Number Of Reds in a Row

So, this will scare you Martingale players! What is the record for the number of reds in a row? Check out this picture from the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. This had all the punters thinking that the wheel was rigged- 7 reds came up in a row (you will see 7 in a row at some point for sure) but these were all the number 19!

Wow
The record for the number of reds in a row was set in the US in 1943 when the colour came up 32 times in a row. The probability of this happening on a European Roulette table is (18/37) to the power of 32 which comes to 1 in 10,321,314,387.

it has also been reported that red came up 39 times in a row in the Casino Monte Carlo, Monaco.

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You can see how it doesn’t come up much, but it can happen! Luckily, I should think if anyone was playing the Martingale on that table, they hit the table limits WELL before the 32nd spin.

That’s a Slim Chance, But it Happened
This was probably seen on an American roulette table which makes it even more incredible, because in this case the probability of it happening was (18/38) to the power of 32 which comes to 1 in 24,230,084,485, almost 2.5 times less likely because the American wheel has 2 zeros.

Here’s the thing though- on the 32nd spin, the probability of the next spin coming up red or black was the same- 47.3%. Talking about individual spins and 32 spins is a whole different ball game, and in roulette you can only bet on one spin of the wheel.

Roulette Odds Of 5 Reds In A Row

If you do a search on Yahoo, you’ll see that many people claim to have seen over 10 in a row on the roulette table. One guy claims to have seen over 15 at least 5 times (I guess we don’t know how much roulette he plays to gauge the percentage of his visits that this represents). Even so, it does happen. 5 in a row, 6 in a row, 7 in a row, 8 in a row and so on is going to happen more frequently. 14 in a row seems to be the big one that people are talking about in their personal experiences.

What About Black?

The weird thing I find about these stories, is that everyone always talks about red. I mean, what about the record number of blacks in a row? Or the record number of evens in a row? Or odds? Or high numbers? Or low numbers?

There is a famous session where a roulette ball on a specific wheel landed on black 26 times in a row in a Monte Carlo Casino in the summer of 1913- August 18 to be precise. This even spawned the name “Monte Carlo Fallacy”. Players at the table lost millions of francs betting against the black.

Roulette Odds Table 2 Reds In A Row

But generally, all the noise is on red, right?

Why People See Red and Not Black
I think here we are into human psychology. Red is an emotive colour, and it’s the one that people talk about the most. Black also gets noticed to a lesser extent, but the others? There has probably been a case of 20 high numbers or odd numbers occurring in a row in a casino, but no-one probably noticed.

So, this brings up an interesting point for us, one that we touch on in our Even Money Switcher system.

If you are tracking the even money results, you don’t just need to bet on red/black. You can look for patterns on the other bets as well. 23 reds in a row has been documented, but I have never heard of 23 high odd red numbers in a row.

Maybe it happened and no-one noticed!

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