Win With Progressions

[johnnymcc1966]

Can a progression overcome the house edge? I'm not talking about raising your bet after every loosing spin. I'm thinking more of a long term slower progression.

In the short term, anything is possible. Extreme negative variance can be pretty common in less than 100 spins. But what about 1000 spins? Things seem to even out like they should with more spins.

What if we use a progression in sessions only. Let's call a session 100 spins. Suppose we're betting 4 numbers only. This should hit about 1 in 9 times. After 100 spins, determine how much you have lost. Maybe we only had a hit rain of 1 in 25. So, after 100 spins start a new 100 spin session but add a chip this time. In the long run, we will get the expected hit rate. So at some point, at least 1 session will have positive variance. Seems like this would work. Haven't tested, just wanted to see what you guys thought.

 

[snoopyDog]

I wish it could, but the facts are that a progression can not even make a dent in the house edge.

If you look at it logically, then it's easy enough to see why. Since the long term expectation is negative, then every bet amount that you multiply times that negative expectation still produces a negative value. For example you can't multiply any positive number times a negative number and produce a positive outcome.