Comments on: A Primer on Roulette: Why Are You Playing This Game?

By: Learn how to play roulette

Learn how to play roulette — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:14:33 +0000

Since Roulette is the only game I will play while drinking, it’s also the only game I’ve had the courage to pick up a woman while playing. this game full of enetaiment not for any business but some of them will have used this for abusiness so the become many more problem to the people to other so the game will used .

By: prufock

prufock — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:37:01 +0000

Good post! The people trying to justify their “systems” are hilarious!

By: thatbadfeeling

thatbadfeeling — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:21:11 +0000

A great post and comments! Reading this reminded me of why I both love and loathe my Ultimate Game of Chance.

Yes, Roulette is a House game, probably more so than any other. But it’s so alluring in other ways besides being a quick and dirty way to win (or lose) your money. Some of my fondest gambling memories have been around the Roulette wheels in Vegas. There was the time my best friend picked two numbers in a row correctly (I made the bets; he doesn’t have the stomach for Roulette) and we blew the winnings on lap dances. Since Roulette is the only game I will play while drinking, it’s also the only game I’ve had the courage to pick up a woman while playing. Years later on our honeymoon, my wife, who doesn’t like gambling, hit lucky 7 on a twenty dollar bet. The look in her eye actually scared me; I envisioned the future trips to Gamblers Anonomous. Hmmm. How cheap are fares to Vegas?

When it comes to the pure math of it, this article is spot on. Roulette should be played for the enjoyment to be had, not the winnings (hopefully they are one in the same now and then). The money I walk into a casino with is already spent, and to expect otherwise is a desperate thought!

By: Sundance

Sundance — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:29:15 +0000

“You want to tell me to not play one game in a casino over another because of statistical risk in the context of defining my manhood?”

Yeah, bit of a run-on sentence there. Sorry about that. I think you responded to what I was going for with your example about the NY Times. I assumed (incorrectly) that all the articles on this site were in the context of “manhood”.

“I didn’t come to cheat”. -

I took the article to say that since you couldn’t work an angle on the game then you shouldn’t play. To me, that’s counter-intuitive to a sportsman-like “level playing field”. I may be misunderstanding.

Yes, to each their own. I find it fitting that the previous comment says “You can’t change Random…” as if that was a bad thing, yet it is exactly why I do like roulette.

Thanks again for hosting an educational and entertaining site.

By: Fingersoup

Fingersoup — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:47:21 +0000

Card counting, using your own head, is not cheating. If you get caught doing it, you’ll be blacklisted from the casino, but it’s not illegal. Reading people in poker, as well as knowing statistics will help tip the game in your favour, but is once again not cheating, and it’s not against the law.

Casinos like people to win – just not too much… It gives the people who lose something to aspire towards. They keep people drugged to stay, and make bad decisions through free alcohol. And finally, they comp winners a room because you are more likely to gamble in their casino if you are staying there – it gives them a chance to win their money back.

I like the lack of blame in roulette. When I gamble, I don’t want to be able to point my finger at someone and say “He’s the reason I lost”. I don’t like the idea that on a bad night in a casino I could turn into a sore loser. Because Roulette is purely chance, it leaves less of a bad taste in my mouth on a bad night. You can’t change Random…