Tales from the field...
I've been following this thread for weeks now (made a couple posts in the early going as well), doing independent testing of betting against 1, 2, 3 (continuously, re-setting after a win and not sitting out the remainder of the mini-game) using the 1-3-9 progression. Been having FANTASTIC results testing it this way, so today I finally decided to take it for a spin at a real casino that's about an hour and 15 minutes up the road. I just got home from said trip.
Anyway, I get there and sit down at the Roulette Evolution table, of which there are two at this particular casino. The plan was to win 4 units, go on over to the next Roulette Evolution table, win 4 more units, and skedaddle on home. 8 units will more than cover my gas money. So I proceed to play with $10 units. I win the first 3 spins, get up 3 units and just need 1 more...and then it happens. 1, 2, 3 right in a row. I figure that was just bad timing, hey it'll happen to everybody at some point...my time just happened to be sooner than everybody else's.
So, licking my wounds, I get up and head to the other table. I literally play ONLY 3 spins...you guessed it...no wins, straight 1, 2, 3, right in a row AGAIN. Bam, I'm done.
Summary: 9 spins, 2 sledgehammers, -49 units (-$500) in about 15 minutes. It took me more time to walk from table 1 to table 2 than it did to lose my two sequences.
Once in a blue moon flash of bad luck? Perhaps....but looks like it's back to the drawing board for me. Guess I'll check out this bet selection playing with a Labby or look in to GLC's recently posted progression.
I do believe that the right answer (perhaps naively, perhaps not) lies with playing the dozens, and I do believe in this bet selection, but it CAN happen. It's just whether it WILL happen to you while you happen to be sitting at the table. In my case, I seem to have a knack of testing progressions, figuring out something that works in testing, and having it immediately blow up on the first run at the casino.
I know people gamble for a living, and I do believe the HG is out there. Perhaps we're close. I look forward to seeing what finally comes of this thread...
I've been following this thread for weeks now (made a couple posts in the early going as well), doing independent testing of betting against 1, 2, 3 (continuously, re-setting after a win and not sitting out the remainder of the mini-game) using the 1-3-9 progression. Been having FANTASTIC results testing it this way, so today I finally decided to take it for a spin at a real casino that's about an hour and 15 minutes up the road. I just got home from said trip.
Anyway, I get there and sit down at the Roulette Evolution table, of which there are two at this particular casino. The plan was to win 4 units, go on over to the next Roulette Evolution table, win 4 more units, and skedaddle on home. 8 units will more than cover my gas money. So I proceed to play with $10 units. I win the first 3 spins, get up 3 units and just need 1 more...and then it happens. 1, 2, 3 right in a row. I figure that was just bad timing, hey it'll happen to everybody at some point...my time just happened to be sooner than everybody else's.
So, licking my wounds, I get up and head to the other table. I literally play ONLY 3 spins...you guessed it...no wins, straight 1, 2, 3, right in a row AGAIN. Bam, I'm done.
Summary: 9 spins, 2 sledgehammers, -49 units (-$500) in about 15 minutes. It took me more time to walk from table 1 to table 2 than it did to lose my two sequences.
Once in a blue moon flash of bad luck? Perhaps....but looks like it's back to the drawing board for me. Guess I'll check out this bet selection playing with a Labby or look in to GLC's recently posted progression.
I do believe that the right answer (perhaps naively, perhaps not) lies with playing the dozens, and I do believe in this bet selection, but it CAN happen. It's just whether it WILL happen to you while you happen to be sitting at the table. In my case, I seem to have a knack of testing progressions, figuring out something that works in testing, and having it immediately blow up on the first run at the casino.
I know people gamble for a living, and I do believe the HG is out there. Perhaps we're close. I look forward to seeing what finally comes of this thread...