Roulette: Understanding Probabilities
I have seen countless people trying to master Roulette and predict the outcome of the next spin. Some of them actually did a great job every once in a while, but most of them don’t really know what they are doing. I’m saying this because their predictions are made without even considering the law of probabilities.
If you flip a coin for several times and you get Heads on several consecutive flips, which side has more probability to show next? Most of you would generally answer Tails, right? Actually, both Heads and Tails have the same probability of showing next — assuming that no tricks are used when flipping the coin — because it is based on pure randomness and the result of previous flips will have no effect whatsoever to the next one.
The same principles of probabilities are controlling Roulette. You cannot predict the outcome of next spins by calculating previous results, because such predictions are against the law of probabilities. The only way to predict the outcome of a spin is to calculate speed, power used to throw the ball, and where the ball first landed, which is very hard to do when you are playing live Roulette games.