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FRANK SCOBLETE is a well known gambling author with books like Breake the One-Armed Bandits and Best Blackjack coming from his pen. This is his way of playing roulette and he introduces you to it in an easy to understand way - both how to use it and why you should. The First Chapters of the book cover things like Roulette History (interesting historical facts and events told in a light way), The Rules (all bets and pay-outs, for single- and double-zero wheels), some layout systems like Martingale and Labouchere (no reversed, though) are explained with back-ground history and, in the fourth chapter, there are some variations of the themes covered previously. The Closing Words of this part of the book, states that Roulette can't be beaten using any of the ways shown so far. And no other way either, except... of course, taking advantage of a bias - long- or short-term doesn't matter as both are explained. Chapter Five is a quick tour through wheel bias detecting, clear and easy to understand Mr Scoblete uses his own and other persons' experience to explain why and how-to. How to detect a true bias and distinguish it from a random fluctuation is shown in a table and he also suggests what size of bankroll should be used for each type of bet - ranging from $3,000 and down to $450 (in special situations), most of them over $1,500. The chapter is, in my opinion, a bit too summarized - as if Mr Scoblete presupposes that only leisure-players will by his book. And after all, he suggests further reading for the very interested so I will catagorize this book as a guide for interested beginners to leisure players with some experience, who want to learn the basis of how to track bias - any bias; short-term bias (dealer signature, random fluctuation...) is handled in the next chapter. For The Eager who do not want to record thousands of spins, Mr Scoblete has dedicated a chapter six to explain (and promote) the Roulette Action Play Tracker Card (by Joe Zanghi), the way he uses it (the "Double Dynamite Roulette System") in detail, with lots of examples. These examples also show how to bet on the American table. The handling of the card for a single-zero wheel is the same as for a double-zero (both are printed at the card) so you can use the examples to learn how to read the card but the bets are for American tables: Mr Scoblete explains how every example bet can be made with ten one-dollar chips at a ten dollar minimum table. At a European table, the same betting can be applied, of course, (thus costing 10 betting units a spin) but not necessarily as some bets are made to "fill" the ten dollar table minimum. The Rest Of The Book consists of a chapter discussing if there is, for a fact, such things as Dealer Signatures and dealers who can hit sectors of the wheel at will. Then follows a chapter dedicated to Roulette questions and answers. The questions are ranging from "Where are the most roulette wheels found?" to "How often does the ball hit the obstructions on its way to the pockets?". Then There Are Spins for you; close to 11,000 double zero spins - more than 7,000 recorded 20 at the time at different scoreboards and 3,800 spins recorded (almost) in sequence at one table. The latter with summaries and grand totals at the end. The book closes with Recommended Reading, a Glossary and an Index. If You Are Interested in learning bias detecting, I think this book is good reading as it answers all the basic questions. If you, however, are an experienced roulette player who is ready to start tracking wheel bias seriously, there are other books that are more suitable as this one only covers the basics - although it's a good base for future studies. The Double Dynamite Roulette System, as Mr Scoblete calls his handling of the above mentioned card (Joe Zanghi's Roulette Action Play Tracker Card), is what has been used "in Hamburg". When trying to use the long-term bias detecting described in chapter five, the wheel showed only a low bias and therefore that idea was discarded - one of the purposes of the recording of thousands of spins is just that: Bias - Bet, No bias - No bets. Instead, as I would probably have done in real life - or why not while recording the spins - I used the quicker system. Now, I want to point out that a system like this is very hard to translate into a computer program as human vision is superior help in this case. In short, there are too many variations that has to be covered in a program and the consequence is that it will be a rather rigid game; the selection method is not varied as much as a human maybe would have. The bankroll was 120 units and I never let it go negative. I count all bets and when I'm going to break the limit of the bankroll (120 units EXCLUDING all winnings) and all bets thereafter, I end the day if: A) the TOTAL bankroll (including winnings) will become negative, so I cannot pay for the next bet. This happened at a dozen times. B) the bankroll can pay but I have not won AT LEAST as much as I have bet so far plus one. (This is my interpretation of "...If you aren't ahead after this, move on") An example of the latter: I have, so far, bet a total of 118 units and the next bet is six, so I will break the 120 units limit if I bet. If I only have had three winnings (3 * 36 = 108) I will stop because I'm not ahead (-12) but if there were four (4 * 36 = 144) I will continue as I am 24 units up. Before the next bet I will make the same check. The betting sessions were as long as the recording sessions, running simultaniously. This means that as soon as the first recording session for the day was finished, both a new recording session AND a betting session (based on the previous recordings) started. The instructions are a bit vague about these things - the bankroll and the betting session length - but I guess my interpretation is as good as another. Taking into account that the "Hamburg game" was played by a rather rigid computer program, my impression is positive and strengthen by the fact that the end result is MUCH better than the house edge (0.918% loss after 1,000+ sessions and more than 16,000 bets) and I think a human has to do better than this. I have used it for five sessions myself (Live! but less successfully, though) and it was easy to operate except when, at times, the bets were spread all over. However, the bets were flat - one unit per number per spin - and the same numbers were bet throughout the session, so it wasn't that hard. Top of page | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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