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There are many ways to entertain yourself online. Playing games is definitely one of those ways. The best casino games out there these days are roulette, and they come in various permutations. You may enjoy French, American, and European roulette which will make the experience a lot more fun than you expect at first blush. Players who wish to try these versions of the game are advised to turn to the top roulette casinos.

There you will discover numerous versions of the game but also learn why some games tend to be more generous than others. Roulette games give a lot of fun, and while they do have a gambling element to them, you can use your knowledge to minimize chances of loss.

Roulette is dubbed a gambling game, and this is understandable. After all, it takes luck to end a gaming session with a net win. However, roulette for all the chance the game has is also a game of skill where you can use your knowledge of the game to make the best and smartest decisions.

For one, you can bet in a way that is consistent with a good strategy. Whether this is Martingale or Fibonacci will be down to you, but the truth is that both strategies offer some leeway, and you will have no trouble adjusting your bets in real time. Whats so special about these two strategies, you may wonder?

Well, as things stand, Fibonacci and Martingale still depend on chance, but the fact is that you can use smart bet sizes and consistency to incrementally expand your bankroll. Martingale essentially works by placing a bet, and if that bet loses, you double up your stake. You keep doubling up until you have recovered your loss and then return to the basic unit.

Fibonacci is a fixed sequence of numbers. You place one number in the sequence and then go to the next and to the next one. You will similarly move down the sequence depending on whether you win or lose your selection.

There are many roulette games to try out there as well, but which are the best, you may wonder? Well, this depends on what you are looking for. In terms of pure return to player, you may want to stick with the French version of the game as it will provide you with the best returns. French roulette can push the house significantly down and run a small 1.36% house edge at all times. This is because the game has two rules called Le Partage and En Prison. Effectively, they negate the negative impact of your roll ending up on zero by either returning your stake or giving you a second chance to roll.

So, French roulette is best, but finding one that features all the additional rules that make it such is not easy as well. That is why most people are sticking with European roulette. The European version is also called a single-zero version. Here the house edge is 2.70%, and its considered the best base version (with 37 total numbers) to play.

Another one is the American roulette which has two zeros, and here the house edge increases a bit. On the flip side, you have a small advantage because you may place your wagers on a new special type of bet.

The first thing to remember is that roulette should be fun. If you want to play the game, you should only do so because you want to enjoy yourself first and to win money next. The game of roulette is not created to make you richer, but its certainly created to offer you a chance to win some money in a surprising and satisfying way.

For example, French roulette is obviously the most beneficial one from an RTP point of view, but when you consider entertainment value, then you would probably want to play Immersive or Lightning Roulette by companies such as Evolution Gaming. It all comes down to personal choice so what is yours?

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The odds of winning at a casino are not very good at all. And for roulette, it's even worse. As financial author J.B. Maverick reports in Investopedia, the house has a 5.26 % edge on an American roulette wheel, a percentage that's much higher than other games like blackjack. What does this mean?

"A roulette wheel is numbered from one to 36, so you might think this puts the odds for winning a single number bet at 36 to one," Maverick writes. "However, roulette wheels also have a zero, and sometimes they have a double zero and even a triple zero. The actual odds of winning are thus 37 to one, 38 to one, or 39 to one, not 36 to one."

Maverick reports that a casino wins about $50,000 for every $1 million played, and the house winnings get bigger the longer the player participates. If person is making $5 bets on every spin of the wheel and the wheel spins 50 times an hour, they'll wind up losing 5% of their money over four hours. Only 13.5% of gamblers actually wind up winning at the roulette wheel, according to Maverick's research.

Dr. Richard Jarecki, a medical professor at the University of Heidelberg, was one of the 13.5%. But the professor didn't just win. He won big. In fact, over a five-year period between 1964 and 1969,Jarecki won $8 million from roulette at various casinos. How?

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By noticing a flaw ... and then painstakingly working at exploiting it. According to this great story in The Hustle, Jarecki found that roulette wheels, like all other mechanical devices, demonstrated wear and tear after a period of time. These tiny defects "chips, dents, scratches, unlevel surfaces might cause certain wheels to land on certain numbers more frequently than randomicity prescribed."

So what did Jarecki do? He went to work. He spent countless hours in numerous casinos, in addition to the hours he spent at his job, manually tracking tens of thousands of spins and analyzing the data for abnormalities.

I [experimented] until I had a rough outline of a system based on the previous winning numbers, he told the Sydney Morning Herald in 1969. If numbers 1, 2 and 3 won the last 3 rounds, [I could determine] what was most likely to win the next 3.

Jarecki visited numerous casinos in Europe. He hired people to help him log the data. He spent days and nights analyzing that data. Then he did what any entrepreneur does when ready to take a risk: He borrowed 25,000 from a private investor, and over six months he quietly, slowly and cautiously placed his bets. The results were a net profit of 625,000 (roughly $6,700,000 today). By the end of 1969, Jarecki had made almost $8,000,000 in today's dollars.

Nothing he did was illegal, but it was annoying and costly to the gambling industry. Ultimately, Jarecki's highly publicized successes caused the industry to undertake a complete overhaul and digitization of their roulette tables. So sorry dont get any ideas.

Nevertheless, Jarecki noticed a flaw and he took advantage of it. He also proved three other very important things that every entrepreneur should know. The first is that making money is not easy. This was no get rich quick scheme. Jarecki had his successes over a number of years and after spending thousands of hours doing the research and collecting the data. He also invested his own money by hiring people to help. This took time and a lot of work.

Second, it really is all about the data. Collecting and then deeply analyzing the trends revealed from information about any business, activity, demographic, industry or geographic region will oftentimes reveal things to exploit. Most of us arent data driven people. We have romantic ideas about making money. Were usually not willing,or patient, enoughto do the research.

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Finally, if you're going to make big money, you're going to have to risk big money. Jarecki couldn't do this on his own. He used his own money to hire people to help. Then when he was convinced of future success, he had to persuade an outside investor to make a significant investment, and you can only imagine how that pitch meeting went. But apparently he was convincing enough to sell his project. Im sure there were many sleepless nights during that time.

There are few people in this world that are willing to do all of the above, and even fewer that ultimately succeed the way Jarecki did. Are you one of those few people? If you are, then Im envious. If youre not, then join the crowd.

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How Did a College Professor Win $8 Million At Roulette Over 5 Years? - Entrepreneur

THEY decided to play a game of "pregnancy roulette" as a bit of fun.

But two women were left speechless when they discovered during the game that they were BOTH pregnant.

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Jessica Oakes took to TikTok to share a video over which she wrote "POV: pregnancy roulette with the bestie".

In the clip, she and her pal were seen popping to the shops to buy two Clearblue pregnancy tests.

They then took it in turns to go into the toilet and take the test, after which they put the stick in a empty tissue box.

Once they'd both done the tests, they sat on the bed and reached into the box to pull one out.

Jessica went first, and kept the test close to her chest as she took a peek at the result and then nodded excitedly at her friend after apparently witnessing a positive.

However, the result didn't seem like much of a shock to Jessica - unlike her friend.

As she pulled out the stick and had a look, she couldn't hide the shock on her face as she realised that was positive too.

"Always trust your gut #pregnancyroulette," she captioned the video on TikTok.

In the comments section, people were quick to offer the pair their congratulations, as well as tagging friends to take part in the game with themselves.

"Get the tests ready were doing it!" one woman wrote.

While another added: "I wanna do it obviously they will both be negative but why not?"

As somebody else commented: "Lets make it an every month thing!"

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I played pregnancy roulette with my best friend we did NOT get the results we were expecting... - The US Sun

Russias attack on Ukraine has upset all the well-integrated and familiar geopolitical, geo-economic pieces. The global order of the past 30 years resembled a giant jigsaw puzzle with many uneven fragmentssuch as, a rules-based global trade and financial system, or a unipolar global political systemwhich somehow fit snugly into one recognizable template. All these pieces are now up in the air.

Nobody can predict where the pieces will fall, whenever they fall, but one outcome seems quite likely: the new, emergent world order is likely to see accelerated acceptance of official cryptocurrency. Western economies, of necessity, will be in the vanguard as Russia weaponizes crypto-products to get around sanctions and precipitates cyber-warfare to implant measured chaos. According to US-based media outlets, 21 American companies, including gas producer Chevron, faced cyber-attacks days before Russian forces crossed into Ukraine. In this chaotic reordering of the global financial system, it will be interesting to see where and how India manages its cyber strategy, especially in erecting a regulatory framework for private crypto-products and rolling out a central bank digital currency (CBDC) with a design that is transparent, user-friendly, hack-proof and interoperable with other CBDCs. Speed will be key here.

The fast-transforming financial landscape has forced even the US to bring forward its CBDC plans. President Joe Biden has mandated government agencies and ministries to start developing a digital US dollar and to come out with a report highlighting the risks and advantages of such a move.

The US move comes after many months of debate over whether the worlds most powerful currency would bite the digital bullet. Whatever the outcome, an American CBDC is bound to be a crucial turning point for the global financial system. Bidens executive order is explicit: My Administration sees merit in showcasing United States leadership and participation in international fora related to CBDCs and in multi country conversations and pilot projects involving CBDCs. Any future dollar payment system should be designed in a way that is consistent with United States priorities and democratic values, including privacy protections, and that ensures the global financial system has appropriate transparency, connectivity, and platform and architecture interoperability or transferability, as appropriate."

It does look like a rear-guard action to maintain the dollars superior status as a global reserve currency. In an article for US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, analyst James Andrew Lewis writes: The end of American ascendancy undermines the architecture of global governance and security Rule of law and norms for responsible behavior, the themes that have guided digital governance, are now open to question and inadequate to guide policy in a confrontation."

Coincidentally, in January 2022, the US central bank, the Federal Reserve released a report titled Money and Payment: The US Dollar In The Age of Digital Transformation, seeking stakeholder feedback on the desired architecture for a digital dollar, including all its perceived risks and benefits. The idea behind seeking expert help is to minimize architectural flaws. This exercise is expected to continue independently, in parallel, while the US treasury department, headed by former Fed governor Janet Yellen, will also submit a report to Biden in September on the potential benefits and risks of a CBDC. Bidens executive order focuses heavily on inter-agency coordination for finalizing Yellens report, somewhat like a war-time effort, suggesting that the US government probably sees cryptos as the next battlefield.

India too has publicly announced a CBDC launch. But, so far, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has shared little information about its likely contours: whether priority will be for wholesale or retail modules, the choice of technology, whether external agencies will be involved, or how the design will incorporate special features suited for the Indian financial system.

Going by what RBI deputy governor T Rabi Sankar said during the February monetary policy media briefing, the central bank is seemingly handicapped by legislation: In the current Union budget, it has been proposed to amend the RBI Act which will enable RBI to issue the digital rupee. Once that is done, we can try releasing pilots, proofs of concepts of CBDC."

This cloak of secrecy extends to the government as well and muddies policy discussion on cryptos. The government promised to bring in legislation for regulating crypto-products in the country and publicly stated that a draft bill has been circulated for stakeholder feedback. But nobody knows the contents of the draft or among whom it has been circulated. The normal practice is to make the draft bill available to everybody and not to only a select group; a wider and universal circle of stakeholders improves input quality, minimizing opportunities for cronyism or surreptitious backdoors built into the CBDC design.

The government, though, has proposed a tax on profits from crypto trading, triggering speculation that taxation legalizes crypto products, adding to confusion. The Centre probably had its reasons for confidentiality but, post-Ukraine, the decks been reshuffled. This might require a change in strategy, one that blends domestic political compulsions with emerging geopolitical trends.

Rajrishi Singhal is a policy consultant, journalist and author. His Twitter handle is @rajrishisinghal.

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The modern world we live in is full of technologically advanced pastimes we can take part in. For example, more and more gamers and gamblers are showing interest in these two costly industries. The gaming and the gambling industry are so widespread nowadays that its not uncommon to see enthusiastic gamers and gamblers setting aside large portions of money to buy the latest game updates or spin the reels to test their luck.

Undoubtedly, both industries offer plenty of promotions and bonuses, and its not like you always have to invest in playing. For example, at Kasinonetti.com, you can try out casino games for free before depositing any actual cash. These bonuses are probably the primary glue that holds gamblers in the gambling industry. Similarly, numerous movies have casinos as their primary theme, and people love watching casino-themed movies.

It seems like this industry is spreading its wings to other industries, e.g., the movie industry, and were here to explore why this is so.

Heres a list of the top three reasons casino movies are increasingly popular:

After watching a casino-themed movie, the viewers can familiarize themselves with the world of gambling and start showing interest in dealing with money management. Viewers can show interest in gambling even if the main characters who play the high rollers in the movie arent the best examples of good bankroll management and end up losing a great deal of money. As a viewer of a casino movie, you get a chance to be in the middle of the movies action and speculate on the outcome of, e.g., a game of poker, a roulette game, a baccarat game, etc. On top of that, as a viewer, you can learn some of the tactics for gambling and how the high rollers present themselves, dress, and keep an overall calm and confident attitude throughout their gambling spree.

Each casino game is full of suspense; whether its roulette, baccarat, poker, reel spinning, or slots there will undoubtedly be a lot of thrills of risk. A casino movie depicts that excitement as the center of the movies topic. For example, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Casino Royale, The Hangover, or James Bond, are all prevalent and captivating casino-themed movies people enjoy watching for the thrill of gambling, sometimes even multiple times.

The overall atmosphere of the casino is mesmerizing, and by watching casino-themed movies, you can find that its your favorite world to be a part of. After watching a casino movie, you may be interested in playing casino games online or visiting virtual casinos to test your luck. After gaining some experience, you may even show interest in visiting a land-based casino for the first time. Some people have incorporated gambling as their hobby after watching a casino-themed movie, and you might as well do the same after watching a good one.

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Sports fans excited to finally bet on March Madness at Maryland casinos

Updated: 7:59 PM EDT Mar 18, 2022

For years, college basketball fans traveled to Las Vegas to bet on March Madness, but Marylanders don't need to do that anymore. As betting on the games is as easy as heading to a local casino.It started with the Super Bowl and now another first in Maryland -- people are finally able to bet legally on March Madness and a lot of folks are taking advantage of that opportunity.A number of upsets in the men's NCAA basketball tournament have brackets busting everywhere."My bracket is already busted so, so yes, I'm hoping that these bets come through," sports bettor Camille Stokes said.Stokes was at Horseshoe Casino Friday and said it's nice to be able to bet on other games so she can keep some interest."It's exciting. I do a bracket just about every year or sometimes multiple brackets, so it is exciting to be able to actually bet money in your state," Stokes said.The recent passage of sports gambling in Maryland has had Baltimore area residents going to casinos like Horseshoe and Live! in Anne Arundel County to place their bets on their favorite teams and sometimes not so favorite."Folks do normally lean on the favorites a little bit but with these wides preads on the 1 vs. 16 games and the 2 vs. 15 games, you can have a little bit of fun and play with the underdogs there too," Horseshoe Casino's Tom York said.Sports bettor Martese Kelly showed 11 News his strategy, written out carefully by hand, enjoying the opportunity to make a friendly wager."I like Duke. I like Alabama. I like Purdue. I like Illinois and Villanova," Kelly said. "I think its a good thing for the city. I think its good for people that like to gamble because it gives you an opportunity to make some money."It's even a bonding experience for some. Jon Ackerman and his son lee spent Friday afternoon together, wagering and having a blast."You can go to a roulette table and put money down and lose it really quick, but with this, you can bet, and you can stay here and watch sports like you would normally want to its just a lot more fun," sports bettor Lee Ackerman said.

For years, college basketball fans traveled to Las Vegas to bet on March Madness, but Marylanders don't need to do that anymore. As betting on the games is as easy as heading to a local casino.

It started with the Super Bowl and now another first in Maryland -- people are finally able to bet legally on March Madness and a lot of folks are taking advantage of that opportunity.

A number of upsets in the men's NCAA basketball tournament have brackets busting everywhere.

"My bracket is already busted so, so yes, I'm hoping that these bets come through," sports bettor Camille Stokes said.

Stokes was at Horseshoe Casino Friday and said it's nice to be able to bet on other games so she can keep some interest.

"It's exciting. I do a bracket just about every year or sometimes multiple brackets, so it is exciting to be able to actually bet money in your state," Stokes said.

The recent passage of sports gambling in Maryland has had Baltimore area residents going to casinos like Horseshoe and Live! in Anne Arundel County to place their bets on their favorite teams and sometimes not so favorite.

"Folks do normally lean on the favorites a little bit but with these wides preads on the 1 vs. 16 games and the 2 vs. 15 games, you can have a little bit of fun and play with the underdogs there too," Horseshoe Casino's Tom York said.

Sports bettor Martese Kelly showed 11 News his strategy, written out carefully by hand, enjoying the opportunity to make a friendly wager.

"I like Duke. I like Alabama. I like Purdue. I like Illinois and Villanova," Kelly said. "I think its a good thing for the city. I think its good for people that like to gamble because it gives you an opportunity to make some money."

It's even a bonding experience for some. Jon Ackerman and his son lee spent Friday afternoon together, wagering and having a blast.

"You can go to a roulette table and put money down and lose it really quick, but with this, you can bet, and you can stay here and watch sports like you would normally want to its just a lot more fun," sports bettor Lee Ackerman said.

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