What Market Would Be Best To 'Martin Gale'?

well for a start, backing evens is suicidal.

the higher the odds, the longer you can go before doing all your dough in. say you backed a football team to draw 0-0 at around 11.0 every time til they did...youd only have to increase your stake by a very small percentage each time. much better than doubling up.

but ive spent 20 years studying this, the fact is it just doesnt work. whatever you choose, eventually you will hit a long losing streak that wipes you out or makes you quit before it does. the maths just dont stack up. say you start with £10 at evens, then keep doubling it, in 6 goes youve spent £630 just win a tenner. you have risked £10, cos youve committed to staking £630 overall. so basically youre putting £630 on a 1.01 shot. it doesnt look like thats what you are doing, but thats exactly what youre doing.

if you feel you must martingale then frame betting on snooker matches between two close competitors.

You'll probably get away with it the first time, so take the winnings and run, and don't try it again as that would be pushing your luck

Hamsterdam. I think you answered your own question in your OP: "backing at evens or slightly above". You may get lucky on a 50/50 shot but why should you? Roulette is about the closest you can get to a true evens. And that doesn't work unless your name is Schalke.

What Market Would Be Best To 'Martin Gale'?

One in which I'm laying, please.

I meant 4 reps without a win before returning to start stake.

So what would it be then?

"Roulette is about the closest you can get to a true evens"
Many years ago ...I worked with some really clever BStards...in the Accounts Dept. of an Oil Company.
When we didn't have much work on ..we looked at all forms of gambling Horses,Dogs, BlackJack,Roulette etc ... we even bought the book "Beat the Dealer" (card counting on BlackJack).   
Our analysis showed us ...best odds against us were on Roulette (house margin 2.7%)
From that we developed a Roulette staking plan ...slow martingale betting even chance Red/Black.
Now a good weekly wage then was about £30 a week !
So off I trotted to a Casino in Soho...to work "the system"
Not being greedy  - Day one - I won £40
Day two...another £40
Day 3 ....another £40
Day 4 ....another £40 (Jesus I thought I/we'd cracked it)
Day 5...19 consecutive blacks, then zero then another 6 blacks (I was betting Red)
So total pot gone ...Oh well that cured me !
I also witnessed same Casino (Golden Nugget) ...5 consecutive zeros !
At spin 3 Pit Boss changed the dealer ..was looking at the ball through a magnifying glass ..
changed the ball ...another two zeros - the place went mad !

On your 5th day - 19 consecutive backs , a zero, then 6 more blacks ????


I am sorry but i would have to say YOU LYIN BSTD

I once wrote a simple program to keep generating 2 random numbers, and was absolutely amazed at the results. It really pissed me off cos it made me realise how quickly a long series of the same number can occur!

This program probably stopped me from going bankrupt.

commission kills martin galers who bet even moneys on ere

That's a joke, right?

If you're using Martingale, you factor commission in to every bet. You just have a little bit
more on to cover the extra.

While not Mr Galing the best book about roulette ever written must be Thirteen Against the Bank, which I read when it first came out. The author was using a Reverse Labouchère system.

If you haven't read it, even if you're not interested in roulette, you should as it's a fascinating read.

I won't give the game away in case you do want to read it.