Can You Really Win At Roulette

A2A “Can you make money from roulette by going every day and playing red or black, win 1 spin and walk away and come back the next day?” No. I mean, you will win about half (but – critically – not actually half) of these bets, so in the very short.

Roulette was the first game I ever played in a casino. I had no idea how high the house edge for the game was – in fact, I didn’t even know what the term “house edge” meant.

1. You can’t win at roulette on every spin – that’s patently impossible. The only person who would ask this question doesn’t understand how roulette works. Having read this post (and some of my other posts about roulette), you already know how roulette works, so you won’t even worry about trying to win at roulette on every spin.
2. However, if you are disciplined, never get too high or too low, and walk away with certain levels of profit, then you may be one those lucky few that win at roulette. The best way to answer this question is to take a good hard look in the mirror. Be honest with yourself about your playing style and approach to the game.
3. Yes, roulette can be beaten at the end of every session, but it can only be beaten according to some conditions: -you must be patient. You cannot win big and fast in the long term. Methods which make you win little by little and slowly are those which can beat the game at very session.
4. To all those who are on a search for the best way to win at roulette – we will leave you with a quote from a very smart person named Albert Einstein: ‘No one can possibly win at roulette unless he steals money from the table while the croupier isn’t looking.’ The Most Frequently Asked Questions on Roulette Strategies.

I don’t play roulette much anymore. It’s a little more slow-paced than I like. I prefer craps now.

But for beginners, roulette can be a perfect way to learn how to play casino games in general.

It’s also a great laboratory for demonstrating the limits of betting systems.

Here are the seven most important questions about roulette that you could ask, answered:

How Does the Game of Roulette Work?

Roulette is one of the oldest and most famous casino games in gambling history. It’s an example of a “spinning wheel” game. Imagine the wheel from Wheel of Fortune, but with numbers from 1 to 36 on them (plus a 0 and 00, for good measure.)

Now imagine half those numbers are black and half red.

Further imagine that there’s a pocket where a ball can land when it’s spun around the rim of the wheel.

Casino gamblers bet on where the ball’s going to land. You can bet on propositions like red/black, odd/even, or high/low. You can bet on single numbers, too. Or you can bet on combinations of numbers.

Here’s the gimmick, though:

A bet on red wins if it lands on red, and there are 18 red numbers on the wheel. But there are also 18 black numbers.

That sounds fair, until you consider this:

The 0 and 00 are green, and they’re additional.

So, if you bet on red and the ball lands on black, you lose. And you also lose if the ball lands on green.

Those two green zeroes are what make the house its money in the long run playing roulette.

2 – What Is the Best Bet in Roulette?

If you measure the various bets in roulette by their house edge, you have a multi-way tie:

ANY bet that’s not the 5-number bet in American roulette is the best bet.

What’s the house edge?

That’s how you measure the casino’s statistical advantage.

The roulette house edge for all the bets at the table – assuming a standard American game – is 5.26%.

The 5-number bet is an exception. The house edge for that bet is 7.89%. Never make that bet.

If you want to know what the best bet is in terms of which one offers the biggest payout, it’s the single-number bet. That bet pays off 35 to 1. The house edge is still 5.26%, though.

If you want to know what the best bet is in terms of which one is most likely to win, it’s any of the even-money bets. Those bets win 47.37% of the time, but they only pay off even money. And the house edge is still 5.26%.

Defining which bet at the roulette table is the best one has as much to do with deciding what your goals are as anything else.

My goal at the roulette table these days is to hit two single-number wins during a session.

I also limit the number of bets I make at a roulette table to 40 bets. I might bet on the same number every time, but I might not – it doesn’t matter.

If I’m betting $5 per spin, I’m going to bring $200 with me.

If I win twice, I’ll win $175 each time, or $350.

Depending on when during the 40 spins I win that, I might make a large or a small profit.

I might also show a small loss.

But I’m limiting my exposure to only making 40 bets. That’s about an hour’s worth of play, which is plenty for me anyway.

3 – Can You Really Win at Roulette?

Sure, anyone can win at roulette. It’s a game of chance. People win at roulette every day.

You can find all kinds of roulette betting systems and strategies. They’re all equally worthless, and I’ll explain why shortly.

How Do Roulette Payouts Work?

All the roulette payouts are designed to offer a break-even bet if the 0s weren’t on the wheel. No matter which bet you place, the payout is such that it would be a fair game – IF only the zeroes weren’t on the wheel.

This means that the payout for a single number bet is 35 to 1. (The odds of winning that bet are 37 to 1.)

The payout for a bet on two numbers is 17 to 1. The payout for a bet on three numbers is 11 to 1. And so on, until you get to the bets on 18 numbers at a time.

The lower the odds of winning, the higher the payouts.

But the house edge doesn’t change.

What Is the Best Roulette Strategy?

The best roulette strategy is to find another game to play. I’m only half-joking about this. I always suggest that gamblers stick with games where the house edge is lower than 1.5%. Roulette is way outside of that range.

All other roulette strategies are equally worthless, although they can be fun to try. The first thing you should do if you’re devising a roulette strategy is decide how much money you want to gamble with. That’s your gambling bankroll.

Then decide what percentage of your bankroll you want to win during your gambling session. Decide, too, on how much of it you’re willing to lose during that session, too.

Those are called win goals and loss limits.

Let’s say you have a $200 bankroll, and you decide you’d be satisfied winning $100 for the session, and you want to quit if you lose $100.

You could place single-number bets for $5. You’d have to lose 20 times in a row to lose your $100 loss limit, so you could play for quite a while.

If you hit a single number, though, you’ll win $175. Depending on how long it takes you to hit a win, you could easily hit your $100 win goal.

As long as you quit when you hit $300 or $100, you’re golden.

That’s called a money management technique. It won’t make you a winner in the long run, but it can ensure that you sometimes walk away a winner. A lot of gamblers stay at the roulette table until they’re broke.

Don’t be that guy. No one respects that guy.

How Do You Win Big Money at Online Roulette?

Real money online roulette offers the same house edge as traditional roulette in a brick and mortar casino. Winning big in the long run isn’t really an option. Of course, your definition of winning big money and mine might differ.

One piece of advice I can offer you about winning money at online roulette is this, though:

All the online casinos I’ve done business with had both American roulette and European roulette available. When that’s the case, ALWAYS play the European version of the game.

What’s the difference?

American roulette has two zeroes on the wheel, which makes the house edge 5.26%.

European roulette, though, only has a single green zero on the wheel, which lowers the house edge dramatically – to 2.70%.

Those still aren’t great odds, but if your hope is to win big money at online roulette, you need to play the game with the lowest edge.

Also, if you want to win big money, you should probably go with the bets with the biggest payoffs. Those are the inside bets. They win less often, but when you do win, you get a bigger payout.

The best of these is the single number bet. It pays off at 35 to 1.

If you have the bankroll to stand it, bet $100 on a single number repeatedly until it hits.

You’ll get a $3500 win when you do.

You’ll sustain some losses before you hit, but this is still a better strategy than trying to grind out small wins on the outside bets with a betting system like the Martingale.

Another option is to bet the max on a single spin and walk away with your winnings when you’ve doubled your money.

This works less than half the time, by the way – around 47.37% of the time, in fact.

But it’s another potentially good strategy for winning big money at online roulette.

How Can You Win at Roulette on Every Spin?

You can’t win at roulette on every spin – that’s patently impossible.

The only person who would ask this question doesn’t understand how roulette works.

Having read this post (and some of my other posts about roulette), you already know how roulette works, so you won’t even worry about trying to win at roulette on every spin.

Conclusion

Inexperienced gamblers often have many questions about roulette, but it’s a slow-moving game that’s easy to understand. And if you stick with the outside bets, the volatility is low. You’ll win even money slightly less than half the time.

A lot of gamblers like that aspect of the game. It makes roulette an especially good target for betting system fans.

The bottom line is that if you understand the answers to these seven questions about roulette, you’re way ahead of the game when compared to other novice casino gamblers.

It would be so great if we had found a bet selection that would be superior from the others and play it and make money from roulette as pro players.

Unfortunately as all mature roulette researchers know, till now no superior bet selection has been found. (I am not speaking here about visual ballistics or bias play). If you are more interested in using science or physics to beat roulette you are welcome to read our dedicated and detailed articles about the physics of the wheel and all the parameters that can affect the prediction of the outcome. There is also a very insightful post about dealer’s signature.

All mathematicians that have made their roulette research based their research on probability-statistics of the previous spins. They had tested everything. Sleepers, repeaters, patterns, standard deviations, even voodoo bet selections. Nothing worked! I have made my research and of course nothing has been found

My ultimate dream is to find a bet selection that is superior from the others and start my carrier as a pro player and travel around the world playing my system. Here we have a nice forum that there are some experienced members as well and we all bother in finding a winning method, never neglect the importance of the right attitude though. the im. It s so great to see that you are not alone in this and some others from all over the world are trying to achieve the same as you do. We are very little in number…have you realized that? And this is good…(I am referring to the people that are exploring roulette for finding a winning way)

Let s all combine our forces from our knowledge and experience and try finding something great!
I know maybe there isn’t anything great about roulette…but being in here means that deeply inside us, we want something to exist.

Asxetos
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If you really want to become a pro. You have to work hard at it. There will be never, never be an easy way out. Working hard means you have to practice what you want to become pro at.

Here is a system, learn it and avoid doing the same mistakes over and over. If by playing it, with enough bankroll. I mean the author has said 10 times, I personally think 15 to 20 times should be safe. 15 to 20 times because you want to play as a pro.

This method is flat betting. We all know roulette is about LUCK. Let’s think for a minute, if you were a good and honest mechanic, would you really need LUCK to get customer’s?

Bottom line, if your bankroll has had a drop, this strategy you will always recover. Recovery might be a grind but it will recover.

Azim

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Azim you don t know me so it s natural not to know how much time and effort I have spent in my research and sure you don t know how many new concepts of betting I have thought of …concepts that the word have never seen but they also failed as it s natural.
I ll take a look at the system you posted here but I know for sure that if a system would beat roulette , wouldn t be on a public sight.

Asxetos
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If you start a business is there anyone guaranteeing you that you will be successful? Is there a 100% sure method to succeed in business? Is this reason not to start a business? Does that mean you can not become successful?

If you are looking for a 100% sure method that will win consistently, quit this game. There is no such thing.
What there is are strategies that are better than others! The benefit of a really good strategy is that is offers you better chances of being a winner than a loser, but nothing is 100% sure. Of the 100 people who will follow a really good strategy 60% might be winners, while the rest 40% would have lost money. According to my book this is a great strategy. Yet you can always be unlucky. There are always what statisticians call fat tails of the distribution. Roulette is part of life and cannot ignore the laws of life. There can be Harvard students who don’t achieve anything, does that mean Harvard is not the best university in the world? You must understand that an advantage does not always results to success. And this is true for the casino and for he player as it is for a Harvard student and everyone else. In anything we do.

In what other aspect of your life do you ask for the certainty that you ask from roulette? Your health? Your wife? Your profession? Your soccer team? Why do you think it is reasonable to ask for unrealistic certainty in a casino game?

Kav

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This is where people make their first mistake.

Think about it logically for a few minutes. The casino would go out of business if 50 reds and 50 blacks did not come up on average every 100 spins. (That’s not even taking into account the 0). This rule holds true for all the bet locations. (excluding bias play as you rightly say). So there is no winning bet selection full stop. It’s a fallacy to believe that there ever could be. That’s the bad news out of the way. Now for the good news!

The online casinos would also go bust if those 50 red and 50 blacks came out within those specific 100 spins. We all know it just does not work that way in reality. You could say….. ”Though the whole is still equal to the sum of it’s parts, the parts themselves are not simply abbreviated versions of that whole”. So the player has to teach themselves to become a winner by reading the game well enough to get more decisions right than wrong. This can be achieved by understanding the ebbs and flows of the permanence as it is coming out. Think of it like this… Let’s say it’s raining outside and you need to go out. So you take your umbrella. Now one minute after stepping outside it stops raining. Would you take your umbrella down?

Most sensible people would! Now think of the player who is going to continue playing red even though black is mostly showing. He is keeping the umbrella up and is going to look for a bigger one if he is using a progression. Imagine that! 😀 Crazy! The example above with the red/black is just a simple one, but you get the idea. So anybody hanging around waiting for a winning bet selection will be waiting a long time. There isn’t one! Teaching yourself to win and learning to read the game takes a long time but at least that’s achievable.

Bob
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I’ve also spent a lot of my time to find out either “the solution” or something very close to “the solution”.
I mean a strategy or a method or a system that could be considered solid,resistant with a very low probability to fail. Nothing exists at 100% probability of not failing!

First conclusion of my researches:
there is no positive or negative progression (as well as flat bet,of course) that you can invent in order to win.
The table limit,an exceptional and long unbalance,the Zero tax are elements that make the roulette “almost” unbeatable. More the progression is long (or more spins you play) more you lose for sure.

Second conclusion:
if you enter a Casino twice a year,it’s only a matter of luck.Useless “to work” with a boring and complicated system.
If you enter,as I do,100 times per year, luck is not very important,but the number of spins you play per year are very important. It must be as low as possible. And of course it’s important where you place your bets……

Third conclusion:
bet selection:it doesn’t exist in the short term(next spin or next few spins are unpredictable) but next spins (10,20,50??) are related to the previous spins,because the law of probability must be fulfilled.
The only way that gave me and is giving me satisfaction for a long time is to play in favour of an unbalance,that is much more frequent that a perfect equilibrium in a given number of spins (10,20,50,100??)
On even chances,on double streets,on patterns of 2 or 3….?Some bets are better than others

Fourth conclusion:
You need a big bankroll. Personally I use 2000 units,even if I play with flat bet or maximum 2 units.
When I win(very often),the sum is very low and risk (1%,2%…) That’s why I consider that a pro gambler don’t exist at roulette. OK at Black Jack and Baccarat (Punto-Banco),not roulette. Of course I have fixed some rules that are the result of experience,long playing sessions and money “invested”.

Today a player can explain his system (GUT,for instance) and I can write down the permanence that make it lose.
This means that a roulette,sooner or later,will generate the same permanence.
Of course this is valid also for my system,that has been built up following the conclusion I have illustrated above.
Good luck

beretta28

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Well said baretta28.

My thoughts exactly. Like Ralph said, all systems will eventually lose, but what else do we have? Having said that, this link points to how I’ve been playing lately. Reply #8 states the principle. The larger imbalance you wait for before beginning betting, the more effective. This is a flat bet only method. (Although, if you have the bankroll, a mild progression might be risked.) I track all three even chances and play the best candidate. This also works tracking streaks vs chops. An imbalance there is the same as an imbalance between colors or hi/lo or odd/even. Of course, the larger imbalance you wait for before betting, the longer we have to track between imbalances. This means you have to adjust the unit size to make the effort worthwhile. As others have pointed out, this will have losing sessions, so be mentally and financially prepared for them. The way I’ve stated baretta28’s comment about a permanence that will kill your method is, if there are spins that will cause your bet to lose, and there always are, eventually enough of them will clump together so as to kill your system. This is why a reasonable stop loss is 2nd in importance only to “don’t gamble with money you can’t afford to lose!”

GLC
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-I’m afraid of something that is “due”. I prefer imbalance (similar but not equivalent to trends).
There is a math law (arcsine distribution) that states that it’s better to follow the repeater than the sleeper.
A lot of examples(using head or tail) on Google.

-I play only “closed cycles”,that means a per-determined number of spins(25 or 100)

-My bet unit is high and I stop at + 1 unit.Easy? Sometimes at the first bet,sometimes after 2 hours at the table,sometimes a few days are necessary…
Of course a Casino is close to my home.

-I’m thinking to give up roulette and play my system at Baccarat (lower VIG on even chances)

beretta28

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To me it is a beatable, but leaving out every session positive is a bit unrealistic (some sessions just never turn to be in the plus, not even +1). Even the best players having the long-term positive edge can have a session from hell.

The gist is to overcome the losses with enough wins; and yes, with those boring grinding systems, there’s a chance in my humble opinion. But they aren’t appealing, as the invested time vs unit ratio plain sucks. For instance, this is a grind: (Flat-betting for short-term balance at the even chances, walker methodology + ideal-value play).

It is tempting to “go wild” and use explosive systems to have the big win, and cheers and so… but then I’m strongly convinced it is exactly how casino wants us to play. “Go all in” “All or nothing”, “become a big winner today” (but the inherent fine print is: become a loser as fast a possible too, so I have explosive methods totally discarded).

Victor
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As in anything you have to study and master your subject, only then will you conquer your chosen field. In roulette you choose what it is you want to conquer/ master. Say its individuals numbers for instance. You would then analyse every number/pocket (all 36 on a European wheel. as with zero, when studied, all combinations of spins eventually are getting back to zero.) Once analyzed you would have specific data on each unique number, combination of exit points/pockets/numbers, as more likely than others to exit to.

E.g. 17 numbers are determined, more likely than the other 20 to result in the next 6 spins from the spin/number, that just resulted. So each of the 36 numbers has its own unique set of 17 numbers, that’s the first step, that in itself could take years of analysis and then it has to be further fine tuned.

Next, understanding the relationship and whats going on with all the associated patterns that look like kaos and randomness!

What is eventually discovered is the reverse, the other 20 numbers and their close relationship with the 17, that years later may be discovered, after literally 1000’s of hours of research and playing in b/m casino’s and many losses, losses that help you learn faster. You’ll then discover a relationship on the roulette wheel that’s similar to a phenomena or Theory proposed in deep space and see it work every time on the roulette wheel.

Then you’ll get excited, because now you can speak with authority on a subject you have mastered and conquered,and are not wandering and wondering about what’s happening anymore. You’ll know every time after some brief analysis what’s about to happen every time and can then place a wager confidently knowing your input will produce the output predicted!

Sound simple, sound like fantasy, as with all proposed theory, its just that, until proven or not proven. Anyway, anybody can say anything on these forums and it can be pure bunker or truth, who knows? If a system did exist, it would be awesome, pretty close to the grail! Anyway, as they say, “time and tide wait for no man.”

Can You Always Win At Roulette

Rocky

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Yes , roulette can be beaten at the end of every session , but it can only be beaten according to some conditions:
-you must be patient. You cannot win big and fast in the long term. Methods which make you win little by little and slowly are those which can beat the game at very session.
-you must have a winning goal , that is don’t try to win more and more when you win because losing runs will make you a loser. Don’t be greedy , stop roulette even though you are still winning.
-only play one method , the one which makes you a long time winner. Play it until you achieve your winning goal.
-play alone , no alcohol , no friends , only you and your method against casinos.
-randomness is on your side , that is try to be unpredictable for dealers and casino managers: don’t stay long at the same roulette , change tables when you have won , only play when you are not alone at the table , hide you’re writing and play fast

Almost nobody apply these simple rules ( based on my own experience) , that is the reason why a winning method becomes a losing method.
Discipline is as important as strategy. Without discipline and self control , a player is a gambler , not a long time winner.

picsous
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As a perfectionist I had to find a way to win at roulette and keep winning. Grinding it out is the way to go. It is so true that the casino would love you to play with a cavalier approach and bet every spin. Playing this way sucks you in. To stay detached and cool requires strength and discipline. Show me any true professional at the top of his game that does not have these two personality traits. You may have gathered that I treat all this with a serious nature. Well I can tell you, if you want to beat roulette in the long term, you need a serious approach.
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I’ve had my share of talk with compulsive gamblers mate.

I have a relative who is one, I have a close friend whose mentality reflects one:
“I’d rather go out a loser than a small-time winner. I come to the casino to win.”

No, you come to the casino for the probability to win, there is no certainty. For instance, a hard-coded ruled I have: if I lost 50% of my bank without having been ever in the plus, then I leave. Why? Because I know this: Even the largest winning tram starts with a concentration of hits; even the largest losing tram starts with a dispersion of hits. What I don’t know? The extension of neither the positive nor the negative tram’s length. Hence the two ways to act: on a clearly positive tram I would take little risks, knowing you can’t win forever, but a positive fluctuation is in front of me and I can risk a little more; on the other hand at a clearly negative situation in which I already lost half of the bankroll and was never up, why in the world would I want to continue? I better keep those units for using them at a positive tram rather than waiting for the miracle or going “all or nothing”.

I’m not a slots player; I do not have the mentality of “a couple more hands, the big win is coming”. I evaluate according to what is happening right now at the table, not according to personal faith… Those who lost it all to the casino with only half moderation would still have half the house and half the bank account left.

Victor
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Can be done and is easy.

Just need the numbers.

If dozen 1 has 45 hits, dozen 2 has 19 hits
and dozen three has 21 hits why be surprised
if dozen 1 “goes to sleep” for 20 spins?

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If red has 50 hits and black has 30 why be
suprised if there are 10 blacks in succession?

If the average of the last ten numbers is 13
why be surprised if there are 4 or five high
hits in succession?

Just needs the use of mathematics and common
sense.

Unfortunately common sense seems to be in short
supply on roulette forums and bizarre theories get
all the attention and space. Why be concerned
about which numbers have hit? That’s the past.
What we are concerned with is the future and
that’s clearly shown by mathematical methods
not abstract theories.

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Hey Victor…Can we have a section for people who
are willing to tackle roulette in a common-sense
way so we don’t have to read all these dotty posts
by people who think they can get rich if only they
could find the “Holy Grail” — whatever that might be?
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How can anyone here even discuss this w/o defining “BEAT”????

Ask 5 lawyers the definition of ‘beat’ and you’ll get 7 answers. Do it mean win a session? Several sessions? Do the sessions have to be consecutive? Win more than you lose? Never lose a session in your life? What the hell does “beat” mean???? Once you establish the definition, for heaven’s sakes put it in a sticky so those of us from all over the world will always be on the same page at all times. And those who are not…link them to the page. That word is as bad as folks who intermingle House Edge with House Advantage. You never know which of the two they refer to. Perhaps both? Who knows?

Talesman

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Common sense.

1.Win goal for a session
2.Stop loss for a session
3.Flat bet. No need for a progression
4.Win more sessions than you loose. Eg win 4 loose 1.
5.Back the numbers that arrive the most.

Common sense.

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Geoff
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Ok, u need to learn about random ,find everything u can on the subject. roulette is a world of randomness and u need to know as much as u can on the subject of random. then devise your system with the knowledge you learned.there is nothing that will happen every time in random, so u have to give yourself a set number of spins to win and if it don’t come get off it, ex, if i play 1.2.3..34.35.36…i give it 6 spins and if no win i stop.we beat ourselves more than roulette beats us, so it is a mind game and u must learn to not let real money bets pressure you, one must play the same way as u do at home as in the field, one can have his game tight then get to the casino a freeze up or throw all his plans out the window.so stick to the game plan and learn not to beat yourself.

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It really depends on two things:

1. How you define ‘beatable’; and
2. Self control

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Does ‘beatable’ mean playing every single spin that the casino has to offer, and then coming out on top after a reasonably ‘long term’ period? If yes, then no, it is not beatable. The house edge will kill you eventually.

On the other hand, you could choose to play and skip spins randomly with random systems or bets and just leave whenever you are up, even if it’s only $1. If that constitutes beatable, then yeah, it’s possible.

However, even then, you would need serious self control. It’s way too easy to lose self control. I’ve lost control many times over, and it’s something I’ll need to learn. Without self control, you could easily lose all the gain you have made in the past 364 days in one night.