Many of the Roulette strategies that exist can function as both positive and negative progression systems. In negative progression systems, bets grow as you lose, and on your investment, you increase your stake as you win. This is the case of the reversed Roulette D’Alembert strategy.
About Traditional D’Alembert Roulette
If you want to know a little about the classic D’Alembert Roulette system, you can read our article about it. Anyway, we’ll tell you a little about what it is before we talk about the inverted D’Alembert system.
In traditional D’Alembert Roulette, you bet on red, black, high, low, even and odd numbers. That is, those bets in which one has a 50% chance of hitting. Every time you lose, you increase your bet by one unit.
The concept behind this strategy is that when you hit the same number of times as you lose, you will have a profit corresponding to the number of hits you have accumulated.
As you can imagine, problems appear when a losing streak causes the number of times you lose to far exceed the times you hit. Then, you’ll be in the proverbial hole.
How the Reverse D’Alembert Roulette Strategy works
In the Reverse D’Alembert Roulette system, you will do the exact opposite of what you would do in the traditional system. You will raise your bets one unit when you win and lower your bets one unit when you lose.
For this example, let’s imagine that one unit equals $1:
- You bet $5 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $6 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $7 and lose.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $6 and lose.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $5 and lose.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $4 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $5 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $6 and lose.
At the end of this progression you will have won the same number of times you lost. However, when you do the math, you discover that you have lost a total of $4.
Let’s see what happens when you have a winning streak
- You bet $5 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $6 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $7 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $8 and lose.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $7 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $8 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $9 and lose.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $8 and you win.
- You increase your bet by one unit, that is, $1. You bet $9 and you win.
In this case, you will have won many more times than you lost and your winnings will be $33. Of course, these streaks don’t happen all the time. Depending on how lucky you are, the Reversed D’Alembert system may or may not be suitable.
That is why it is very important, before playing, to set maximums for your wins and losses, whether you play in a “real” casino or an online casino.