--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bob Dancer <bobdancervp@...> wrote:
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> James wrote: What about betting the minimun on red in roulette? You'd seriously consider playing a game with a 5.26% edge?
I'm going to take the liberty of cutting and pasting the post that someone named "GOLDFADA" make a few years ago in reply to a similar question:
>If your goal is truly to get as close to $500 as possible, then you
>should play video roulette if it's available. By betting $13 each on
>the 0 and the 00 and $237 each on the red and black, you're guaranteed
>to leave with either $468 or $474. No matter which video poker game
>you choose, you cannot be assured that the result after a small number
>of hands will be close to $500.
Assuming you can actually do this on a video roulette machine and the paytables aren't changed from standard payouts you would have 100% chance of walking away with 94.7% of your freeplay. I might consider playing that game.
Mike P.
