Paroli Roulette System

The paroli roulette system is also known as the reverse martingale. This is because it has a similar theory but you use a positive progression instead of a negative one.

What this means is that with the regular martingale system you start out with a small bet and then as you lose, you increase your bets. The paroli is the opposite to that because instead of increasing your bets after a loss, you increase them after a win.

It can be applied to any part of the roulette table but for now, I will assume that you're using it as part of a red/black betting system. The numbers for the progression are exactly the same as the regular martingale system, they are:

What you need to decide is how much you want to "ride the winning wave" before you call it quits. For example let's say you kept betting on the same colour, what you're hoping for is a long run of them.

You need to decide where in the progression you would be happy to call it quits and start over. Obviously the further up the progression you get the more you're going to win but at the same time you're risking more. It would be very greedy to try and get all the way up to 512 or even 1024 because it isn't going to happen very often.

You would probably be better quitting at around 8 or 16 units. This is one of those systems where it's important to stick to your quitting point and not to be greedy. It's within our nature to think "just one more" and it will probably cost you long term.

Another thing you should be aware of with this system is that if you don't get to your quitting point you will lose one unit. For example, let's say you set your quitting point to 16 and that you are betting on the same colour.

If you lost when you bet 8 units, you would only have won 7 units leading up to this (you would have won the following amounts - 1, 2 and 4). So to summarise what I've just said, whenever you don't get to the quitting point, you will lose one unit. This is another reason why you shouldn't set your quitting point too high.

What To Bet On?

What you bet on is entirely up to you, although there are two common ways that people use the it on even money bets and they are either betting on the same colour or betting on the opposite colour each time.

Betting on the same colour is pretty self explanatory, you're basically hoping for a run of 6 or more colours in a row to give you your winning streak.

Now let me explain what I mean by betting on opposite colours. It is quite common when you play roulette to see runs like this: red, black, red, black, red, black, red, black.

If this is what you were hoping for, if the last colour was red, your next would be on black and then red again until you get to your desired winning point.

Final Thoughts On The Paroli

You can use this system on any part of the table such as the dozen/columns or even the lines. The problem with this is that as you cover less of the table, you're less likely to get a winning run together. Therefore it is better to stick to the even money bets.