Reading Material

[leesnose]

Could I ask some opinions of good reading material for someone hoping to become a more serious (ie. consistent) player?

Based on posts from some more respected members on this forum I have found a second hand copy of John Patrick's advanced roulette but that will take a little while to arrive in the UK from the states.

I would be interested to hear of other books that been useful or at least interesting.

Cheers

[Turner]

well, having read a bit, you cant beat reading all (yes all) of this site and VLS.

You will learn more than in any book

The reason being that people are allowed to comment and refute an idea.

You dont get that in a book.

Basically, no one ever brought a book out to educate people over making some money from book sales.

I can say this because I have done both.

Read loads of books, and read here, and VLS front to back

(I am a quick reader)

[Priyanka]

I will have to second what Turner says here. This forum in itself is a body of knowledge. For a starter, you could sort the posts by the number of replies and read the ones with most replies. Then you can carry on further reading using the suggestions at the bottom  of thread. You will slowly get to a place where you will be able to sort good from not so good posts. There is nothing in a book that you cant read from this forum.

If you still insist on reading my suggestions would be John patrick, Brett morton, R D Ellison, frank scoblete are good starters. But dont expect them to make you a serious and consistent player. 

[Turner]

I will have to second what Turner says here. This forum in itself is a body of knowledge. For a starter, you could sort the posts by the number of replies and read the ones with most replies. Then you can carry on further reading using the suggestions at the bottom  of thread. You will slowly get to a place where you will be able to sort good from not so good posts. There is nothing in a book that you cant read from this forum.

If you still insist on reading my suggestions would be John patrick, Brett morton, R D Ellison, frank scoblete are good starters. But dont expect them to make you a serious and consistent player. 

Amen my friend

[leesnose]

Cheers for the replies.  I appreciate the suggestions for a good way to approach all of the info on this site.

I have been making my way through the threads here & on VLS for a couple of months, I can't be the only person that bookmarks a page of interest only to find that they have bookmarked at least a dozen a day.  It is also easy to be led from one thread to another without fully taking in or testing some of the info you have gone through.

I will take on board your advice & get stuck further into the forums.  Maybe taking some decent notes would be a sensible idea.

[RouletteGhost]

Hey leesnoose

Mr j posted a thread in his blog for gamblers glen as well with hindreds of old threads

Howd you make out with star?

[leesnose]

Hey RG,

Pretty well.  Or at least it feels that way so far because my bank is chugging slowly upwards again.

I started playing with singles/series & then using the splits suggested by Denzie, they have fared better than just playing manque, which was my preference before.  Waiting for some virtual losses is pretty damn important as well it turns out.

I was using the carsch variation but returned to reverse variation I had been working on because I found that I could get the liability to about the same level after 8 bets but with more repeats:

I play:

1 1.5 2.5 4 6 | 5 7 9

Two wins resets back to the start.  The first five are repeats & the last three are parlays with a total loss of 36 units (little to no profit on the parlayed bets).  The difference is that the repeats at the start slow the progression right down.

I had intended to double the amounts for recovery sessions but my tests on excel with a couple of thousand Wiesbaden spins suggest I should just take the losses on the chin when they happen & go back to the start.  A comfortable stop loss like that takes all of the pressure right off as well.

The main difference to the way I play this (& I have had some trouble coding this in excel) is that when repeating a bet I do it 1/2 unit lower & all subsequent repeats continue to drop in value.  I am still undecided as to the best use to make of the value accrued during a choppy session, whether to use it to move back down levels, decrease the amounts on the parlay bets or just keep it as extra profit as I go along.

I may not have expressed this very well but I hope that you see what I mean.