What is the most successful roulette strategy? While there is no strategy that can guarantee a profit in the long run when playing roulette, the Martingale betting system is often regarded as the most successful strategy. It is easy to use and can provide good returns.

The best way to win more games on roulette (or to minimize the risk to lose money on the roulette wheel, if you wish) is to focus on the outside bets. Although these roulette bets do not lead to mind-blowing wins, keeping your bets on the odds/even, red/black, and high/low gives you the highest chances to score a win.

The first form of roulette was devised in 18th-century France. Many historians believe Blaise Pascal introduced a primitive form of roulette in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine. The roulette mechanism is a hybrid of a gaming wheel invented in 1720 and the Italian game Biribi.

Legend has it that sailors in the Port of New Orleans in the early part of the 19th century originated poker and craps as a way to while away the time and maybe make some money between jobs, and those games eventually found their way to riverboats  and land-based casinos.