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    Roulette: A Winning Strategy
    Roulette: A Winning Strategy
    Roulette: A Winning Strategy
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    Roulette: A Winning Strategy

    By Martin Blakey

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    Winning big is the ultimate dream of every punter. Over time, silver bullets have been claimed and refuted. Reputations forged and lost. Fortunes won and lost.

    Amongst the fluoro chips, glitzy neon lights, permed-up showgirls and Cuban cigars sits a humble mathematician. Having quietly gone about his roulette strategy for 40 years, now is the time, he decides, to release it to the world.

    The strategy employed by Dr Martin Blakey, dubbed the ’MB Strategy’, is unlike any professionally documented. Moving away from the traditional roulette theories of probability, Dr Blakey has focused his efforts on utilising Chaos Theory (also known as Cluster Theory), with his main argument being that even though a system may be chaotic, random and never repeat, patterns do form and as such can be harnessed and used as predictable. The system has consistently provided Dr Blakey with remarkable and astounding financial results - results that could, if employed correctly, just have the casinos worried.

    An informative yet lighthearted and entertaining read, Roulette - A Winning Strategy is a must-have for any roulette enthusiast.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReadOnTime BV
    Release dateSep 23, 2012
    ISBN9781742842042
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    Roulette - Martin Blakey

    ROULETTE

    A WINNING STRATEGY

    BY

    MARTIN BLAKEY

    SMASHWORDS EDITION

    * * * * *

    Roulette – A Winning Strategy

    Third Edition © 2012 Martin Blakey

    Second Edition © 1991 Martin Blakey

    First Edition © 1988 Martin Blakey

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

    The material contained in this book is general in nature and is not intended to be specific advice, unless otherwise stated. The author and publisher expressly disclaim any and all liabilities to any persons whatsoever in respect of anything done by any such person in reliance, whether in whole or in part, on this book.

    If you are a problem gambler, please seek appropriate professional advice prior to reading this book and acting upon its content’s. The author supports responsible gambling at all times.

    All references to the dollar currency, expressed as ‘$’, are in Australian dollars.

    All references to the pound currency, expressed as ‘£’, are in British pounds.

    Author: Blakey, Martin, Dr, 1937-

    Publisher: Bookpal Australia Pty Ltd

    ISBN: 9781742842042

    Edition: 3rd

    Published in Australia

    www.bookpal.com.au

    * * * * *

    Table of Contents

    A Professional Foreword

    A Personal Foreword

    Acknowledgements

    The Author

    The Author's Philosophy

    1. Attitude to Roulette Systems

    1.1 The Long Run In Roulette - The Theorist

    1.2 The Long Run In Roulette - The Realist

    2. The Roulette Player: Motives And Problems

    2.1 Reasons For Gambling

    2.1.1 Financial Reward:

    2.1.2 Competitive Instinct:

    2.1.3 Social Activity:

    2.1.4 Ego Boost:

    2.2 Roulette

    2.3 Gambling Addiction

    3. Kamikaze

    3.1 Martingale System

    3.2 Reverse Martingale

    4. Two Dozen

    5. D'alembert And Labouchere

    5.1 D'alembert

    5.2 Labouchere

    5.2.1 Method A

    5.2.2 Method B

    6. Hot Numbers And Sleepers

    6.1 Hot Numbers

    6.2 Sleepers

    7. Esp And Roulette

    8. Cheating

    8.1 Two Colours

    8.2 Drop 5, Pick Up 100

    8.3 Electronic Devices

    8.4 Collusion

    8.5 Equipment

    8.6 Conclusion

    9. Tipping

    10. High Rollers

    11. The Mb System

    11.1 Test Results

    11.1.1 Summary Of Test Results

    11.1.2 Test Conclusions

    11.2 Preamble

    11.3 Introduction

    11.4 Essential Criteria

    11.5 Minimum And Maximum Bets

    11.6 How Many Numbers To Play

    11.7 Stage 1: The First Three Bets

    11.7.1 The First Bet:

    11.7.2 The Second Bet:

    11.7.3 The Third Bet:

    11.8 Stage 2: After The First Three Bets Lose

    11.8.1 General

    11.8.2 Sequence Code

    11.8.3 Sequence Counter

    11.8.4 The Wager

    11.8.5 The Involvement Or Amount To Be Recouped, B

    11.8.6 Actual Bet

    11.8.7 The Involvement Or Amount To Be Recouped, B

    11.8.8 Bank Size

    11.8.9 Reduction Of Bets

    11.8.10 Constraint When A > 15

    11.8.11 Continuing Play After A Sequence Is Ended

    11.8.12 Several Sequences To Record

    11.8.13 Extra Bets – Pattern Play

    11.9 Conclusion

    12. The Roulette Solution – The Dealer

    12.1 Preamble

    12.2 Dealers Signature

    12.3 House Advantage

    12.4 Dealer Signature Advantage

    12.5 Null Hypothesis (Ho)

    12.6 H1 Hypothesis

    12.7 Procedure

    12.8 Data

    12.8.1 Histogram of all Dealers

    12.9 Summary of Results for all Dealers

    12.10 Dealer 01

    12.10.2 Raw Data for all Sessions

    12.10.3 Session by Session Play

    12.10.4 Results of Actual Play for Dealer01

    12.11 Dealer Constraints

    12.11.1 For Recording

    12.11.2 For Analysis

    12.11.3 For Playing

    12.11.4 Bank Requirements

    12.12 Dealer 02

    12.12.1 Dealer 02 – Clockwise Raw Data

    12.12.2 Summary of Results Dealer 02 – Clockwise

    12.12.3 Summary of Results for Dealer 02 - Anticlockwise

    12.13 The London Play

    12.13.1 Clubs

    12.13.2 Club Selection

    12.13.3 Associated Costs

    12.13.4 Actual Play

    13. Answers & Miscellaneous

    13.1 Exercise 1

    13.2 Fully Worked Examples

    13.2.1 From 24th December 2011

    13.2.3 From 11th December 2011

    13.2.4 From 14thjanuary 2012

    13.2.5 From 14thjanuary 2012

    13.3 301 Playable Sets

    13.4 Total Number of 16 Number Sets

    13.5 Probability of Next Consecutive Outcomes Being Red

    13.6 All Played Sessions from October 2011 to End of February 2012

    * * * * *

    A Professional Foreword

    What a delight for a Casino Manager to be asked to write a Foreword for a book on roulette!

    Martin Blakey is a mathematician by profession. His other published books have been used as textbooks for schools in the State of Victoria. He is also a warm, fun loving, articulate man whose friendship I value greatly.

    Martin's pursuit of excellence in all that he does has been extended to Roulette   A Winning Strategy. His painstaking research has taken many years. In fact, if he missed a weekend at Launceston Federal we'd wonder what had happened to him, and ask for a note! It just wouldn't be the same without him.

    It has been said "there is only one success   to be able to spend your life in your own way. Martin: you've been very successful, and I'm proud to be able to add your book to my library.

    DAVID LOGIE

    CASINO MANAGER

    LAUNCESTON FEDERAL

    * * * * *

    A Personal Foreword

    As an arrogant academic, proudly boasting a first degree in nuclear physics and postgraduate qualifications in history and philosophy of science obtained from the University of Oxford’s Balliol College, I had little or no respect for luck. It was merely a word, like coincidence, for events incapable of explanation by the then currently accepted laws of nature. One day they would be. New laws would emerge. It was just a question of time before such events, no matter how complicated, would be explicable, predictable, and understandable. I slogged away in ancient libraries and modern laboratories desperately trying to contribute. My ponderous progress and lack of financial reward finally resulted in my abandoning the halls of academia and embarking on a different career: I became the biggest marijuana smuggler in the world. I forgot my philosophical and scientific training and flirted with Lady Luck, who made me a massive amount of money, some requiring laundering before spending it. Casinos were the obvious choice: chuck in a big pile of cash, grab some chips, sit at a table, try not to lose too much, cash in the chips, and walk out with a bag of seemingly legitimately made money. Although I never lost much at the tables, I never made a single penny and puzzled as to anyone else could. I assumed all the players were laundering illegally accrued assets. No one was trying to win. Everyone knew the casinos always did that. Gambling was for mugs. As English writer and journalist George Augustus Sala (1828-95) stated, A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane. Even Albert Einstein commented, You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

    The inevitable happened: law enforcement agencies from fourteen countries set up a task force dedicated to busting me. They succeeded and sentenced me to twenty-five years imprisonment in America’s toughest federal penitentiary. Then the surprising happened: the United States Federal Government let me go after seven years. I wrote a best-selling book, Mr Nice, about my illegal activities, and in the eyes of the global marijuana smoking community, became a celebrity. This led to a series of unexpected assignments such as standing for four British Parliamentary seats, becoming Vice President of Glasgow’s Caledonian University, and judging the 1998 High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam. At the latter, I met a young Australian marijuana botanist named Scott Blakey, who had won virtually every trophy in the cannabis competition. We got on very well with each other. I must introduce you to my dad, Martin, he said.

    Martin extended his hand as his eyes sparkled, indicating his soul was predisposed to fun, rather than seriousness. For hours, we discussed physics, botany, mathematics, probability, randomness, and gambling. I explained how my academic research had been largely focused on confirmation theory – what observations can be said to confirm which scientific hypotheses. Martin explained his D. Phil was simply how to develop a system to win at a roulette table. He had been successful. Full of fascination and, I have to admit, slightly sceptical, I asked if I could accompany him one day to a casino and see him in action. Martin agreed.

    Some months later, by which time we had become firm and close friends, Martin and I met in Mayfair and visited one of the main local casinos. We sat at a roulette table and started placing chips on numbers. I employed my money laundering strategy and lost steadily but modestly. Martin seemed not to have any particular strategy other than to place his bets immediately before the ball stopped spinning, then scribbling and calculating furiously between spins. In less than an hour, he had trebled his stake money. It could have been a fluke, a one off, but any such illusion disappeared when he displayed similar successes at the next three casinos. Then we got drunk. He explained his system to me. Overcoming my prejudices and my ingrained inability to cope with the complex structure of randomness, I think I understood it - at least enough to realise it required an enormous amount of hard work. In the following pages, Martin explains it to us all, and whenever needed, aids our comprehension by fresh articulations and insights into the nature of chaos, and randomness, topics only recently partially understood by professional scientists. This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary man. I am honoured and proud to write a foreword to it and look forward to its adorning my bookshelves.

    HOWARD MARKS

    AKA MR NICE

    * * * * *

    Acknowledgements

    It is almost impossible to publish any book without the invaluable assistance of many people.

    Thanks must go to the staff and management of Launceston Casino and Country Club, and special thanks to the Casino Manager, Mr. David Logie. David emphasized to me that, even if one could devise a method to combat the casino edge, human aspects such as self-discipline or greed will usually cause a player's downfall.

    An enormous amount of time and effort has been spent on computer analysis and program writing. My friend Jerry Sadilek has held this honourable post and without his advanced computer skills the present strategy would not have evolved.

    My family has always supplied encouragement and the fact that I spent almost every day at the casino playing roulette has never been viewed as negative. My children are delighted that I have been able to pursue my dream without financial injury.

    Marketing has never been a strong point and I must congratulate

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