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An example of mail order systems are those that are sold through the mail by a outfit out of Brooklyn, New York. If you've managed to somehow get on their mailing list, you are undoubtedly familiar with their stuff. Periodically, you get a plain envelope containing a four-page two-color brochure promising to make you financially independent with their unique casino roulette system, thoroughbred handicapping method or something else.
The cost of each magic system is usually around $30, with a full money back guarantee, of course. Here's the spin: These people are running something very close to a scam operation. You order the information by sending a check to the appropriate address. The product is shipped promptly. It comes usually in the form of a 12 - 25 page booklet. The envelope it is shipped in along with the booklet itself has no return address or phone number. So if you opt for a refund, you don't know where to go (pretty slick, eh?). The information contained in the booklet is always worthless. It describes some variation of a negative up-as-you-lose betting progression. Unknowing players will use the method with typical short term success, followed by long term failure. I recommend never ordering anything from a mail order outfit with the expectation of winning. But their advertising literature and bold claims are fun to read. Internet-marketed Systems Here are a handful of the Roulette systems currently being hawked on the World Wide Web or through gambling related newsgroups. Some of them are being sold as cheaply as $10. Others, a bit more. One bold system is being offered for $15,000 to the first ten lucky buyers. Only ten will be sold! (Incidentally, no one has bitten at this particular offer yet). Most of these systems offer basic instruction on working the * Labouchere betting progression or some variation of it. Some address biases. Some are so confusing I am not quite sure what they are trying to say. Be very cautious in ordering a system off the Internet (except through our recommended link below). The bottom line on all other Roulette systems is to be cautiously optimistic. Undoubtedly, Roulette systems are going to be offered for sale as long as the game exists. A select few will have merit, the vast majority will not. Before investing time or money, talk with the developer, talk with a few long-term users, and insist on a clearly defined money back satisfaction guarantee. With these assurances, you'll never get burned. * The Labouchere Betting System (a.k.a. The Cancellation System) This system, another Negative Progression, is somewhat more complicated than those listed so far. Depending on the odds in whatever online casino game you're playing, you'll come up with some sequence of numbers -- of any length you wish -- and not necessarily sequential. Each number in your sequence is a multiple of your predetermined betting unit (7 therefore is 7 times your betting unit; 5 is 5x, etc.) Here's how it works: - Your first bet should be the sum of the first and last numbers in your sequence; - If you win, cross out those two numbers you just added together (the two outermost in your sequence) and bet the sum of the next two; - If you win again, cross out those two outermost numbers and repeat the process; - If you continue winning until you have no more numbers in the sequence to add together, you simply start from the beginning with the entire, original sequence. However: - If you lose, you add to the end of the sequence, the sum that you had just used, thus creating a new sequence; - Crossing out no numbers at all (because you didn't win yet), add the first number in the sequence to the new last number that number and use that new sum as your multiple; The supposed benefit of this complicated betting method is that anytime you have to start over with the original sequence, you come out with a profit. The drawback is that you can accumulate enormous losses before you ever win (if you ever win). Article by http://www.professionalsinsight.com |
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