Ask an elder (if you know some, live nearby) how to achieve something in life. Most of the time you will get the same answer: "You must be hardworking and patient." But we are a strange generation. We are a lazy generation. We are people who want wealth, power and everything that comes with it. But we are not willing to work for it. Most of the time most people just talk about it, make a lot of dreams, do some petty planning and never activate the plan. Why? The answer is simple, but still painful: all of humanity, we are just a bunch of lazy children! We just talk about victory! We declare victory, but never achieve it. The reason for this: we are afraid of falling. Even if we are adults, we still act like little children who when fall down start crying and screaming not because they are hurt, but because they are programmed that if they cry and scream their parents will come running and pull them up and then hold on tightly in their loving arms and get them home where it is warm and safe. But the reality is completely opposite. Our parents are not here to provide safety. They are not here to pull us up when we fall. We have to learn to do it ourselves. And although its completely opposite in reality, most people deny this fact and continue to act like little lazy children: they take loans from the bank to buy things that they do not really need, without thinking how they are going to get the loan back. They just sign a paper, take the money, pay for the things, feel happy for a few minutes, and then when month after month they see how much of their salary they pay to the bank (the longer the period, the extra charge - the greater the amount, on interest, that they give away). Its totally better if they, instead of taking a loan from the bank, to be patient and work until they collect the amount of money they owe and buy the desired thing in cash (there are stores that give a discount when customers pay in cash, so this makes the situation even better). So how does all of the above relate to roulette? It does. Just like everything else in this f***ing world is interconnected, it is directly related to the roulette game. Somewhere at the beginning of this thread, I mentioned that winning on 2.5% of your bankroll per session is good enough. Some of you agreed with me that most of you don't. I'm sorry to write this, but I have to write it: if you think growing your bankroll for 2.5% of a session is a small amount, then you are not a professional roulette player - you are a gambler. Yes, plain and simple. If you go to a casino and plan to grow you bankroll by 25 or 50% or even double your bankroll every time you go to a casino then you are in deep trouble. I apologize in advance for all the troubles and hard times that you and your family are going to go through because this bad behavior is yours. What if this same mindset was obsessed by professional traders on the stock exchange? What if professional sports bettors had this mindset? They would not be called professional traders and sports bettors but PLAYERS. Why did I mention these two professions? Because I got some little experience in the first and a little more in the second and I am able to write about it. Have you ever wondered how traders make their profits? Many associate traders with the character of the "wolf of wall street" but in reality its a little different. Yes, there are times when speculation occurs but most of the time it is the free market that shapes stock prices. Professional traders make their profit in two ways: 1) dividend yield (big players this) 2) the difference in stock prices (buy low - sell high) - this is mainly used. What professional traders actually do? They log into their accounts, from where they manage their portfolios. After that, they start collecting data about the company. Once they have collected the data, they analyze and choose where to invest. They invest in stocks that they expect the stock price to rise in the near future. They never invest in stocks from just one company: they diversify their risk by buying stocks from several companies, from 10 to 100, some of them buying even more. Example: Let's say they invested in 20 companies. They bought 50 shares of each company, and each share was worth $ 100. Total investment: $ 100,000. They expect that within one month to see the price of all the stocks they own grow, but they know with certainty that they cannot win 100% of the time. After one month, the price of 10 companies has grown from 100 to 130, and they took advantage of this positive trend and sold them, the price of 5 companies has fallen from 100 to 80, so they decide to sell them to cover the potentially too large loses, and they let the stocks from the other 5 companies go because their price was stable and there was no room for growth in the next month. If you do the math, you will notice that the portfolio of the initial $100,000 is now worth $110,000, and it has grown by 10% in a month. Frankly, a 10% profit in professional trading is considered huge because of the large amounts of money that are in play. But what if the traders had that "get rich" mindset that most of us roulette players have? They analyze and pick one company. They will buy 1,000 shares of that company and invest the entire 100,000 dollars in that company. And if they chose correctly, the price will go up and they will make a profit. But if they chose incorrectly they will lose big money. That is why they diversify the risk and do not try to bite off more than they can chew. How are things in sports betting? Different bettors have a different approach in sports betting. In the following I am going to write about one approach that is used by most punters in bookmakers around the world. Its the "54%" rule. Following this rule: all it takes for a single bettor to be successful is to pick his picks correct 54% of the time (single picks with a minimum odd of 1.90). If he manages to pick 54% right, then he will make a profit in that betting season. Did I mention "season"? Yes! In fact in sports betting a professional bettor is interested in the overall bankroll result at the end of the season, then the result in the middle of the season. They know there will be ups and downs, and all they care about is picking the right one 54% of the time. Anything below that number is bad business, and anything over that number is a plus reason to stick with what he's already doing - because, obviously, he's doing it right. Example: The bettor is an NBA expert and pays NHL and MLB picks. Overall, he has 1,500 picks in a year (season) total betting. He and the guys selling him the picks manage to pick the right one 57% of the time. The situation at the end of the season is like this: 1,500 bets X $100 per bet = $150,000. 1,500 bets X .57 = 855 winners. 855 winners X X 100 = 162,450 won $1.90 - 150,000 = $12,450 profit - 2,000 subscriptions = $10,450 net profit. Why did I mention professional sports bettors here? Because they never put their entire starting bankroll on just one bet. Most of the time they diversify their risk by betting only 1-2.5% of the bank and big players put this number even lower - 0.25%-0.5% of the bankroll (this is the only way to ensure they get out alive after a bad streak of over 100 consecutive losing bets). What most of the roulette players need to adopt is a new mindset. They need to start looking at the wheel with more respect. They need to be patient and exercise a lot of hard thinking. 2.5% growing an initial bankroll is significantly less than 25 or 50% growing a bankroll, but it is much easier to achieve and involves less stress. Plus look at the story of that guy from Asia: his session goal ranged from 1-3 units or 0.63%-1.89% and with a low session goal, how did he manage to grow his bankroll from 800K to 1,200K (50%) in a little over a month. Just a little hint: add another bankroll (instead of 2 x 80 units, use 3 x 80 units, just in case) and lower the block size from 5,000 to 50 or 100 dollars and you will be making 30 units x 50 or 100 dollars = 1,500 or 3,000 dollars profit per month. Not that bad?

And the last conclusion: even if you still haven’t found an all-time winning approach, maybe you have found the best approach next to it. What is the best approach next to it? The one that brings even a little more, then the final bankroll bust. What do I mean by that? I mean the approach that earns you more than the amount of your bankroll before your initial bankroll is blown. Example: If you find an approach that earns you +$1,050 before losing your initial $1,000, then you are a winning approach with a 105% ROI, and although that 105% is very small - it adds up little by little and from $1,050 it can grow to $1,102, and after that $1,157, and then $1,215, and so on. After all: roulette is not a sprint - it's a marathon.