Martingale Variants

As usual with betting systems, people adapt them and new systems evolve. That is particularly true of the Martingale System, which is probably the most widely used betting system that is used by players, certainly in roulette.

Here are some of the more popular variants:

Anti-Martingale.
The Martingale System is what's known as a negative progression system, in that you increase (double) your bet after a loss to try and claw back losses. But what about if you turned this on its head, and doubled your bet after a win? This is the Anti-Martingale, or Reverse Martingale system, and it is a positive progression system.

The idea behind this system, is to avoid those situations where you dig yourself a deeper and deeper hole to get out of, if you experience a run of losses. So you repeat your bet after a loss (flat betting) and double it after a win. What you are trying to do, is to accelerate, or rather turbo-charge, any winning streaks. Of course, you need to be very disciplined when you use this system, because you are going to lose a spin at some point. The trick is to try and predict how many times you will win in a row, and only double your money over that period. It's a personal choice. We normally try and hit 3 wins in a row, and then drop our bet back to the starting level.

Triple Martingale
Well, if you thought the Martingale was a hairy ride, wait until you have tried the Triple Martingale. In this variant, you triple your bets after a loss, rather than double them. The idea here, if you are playing even payout bets like red/black, is that you claw back any losses after a win, PLUS you make additional profit.

But be careful! It's not called the Triple for nothing. Your betting profile is going to ramp up as follows:

1,3,9,27,81, 243. (against a standard 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256

Note, if the betting limit is 300, you are going to hit it after 6 losses rather than 8, and that's if you start with the lowest betting amount. So you have less room to cover your losses. Some people also play this on the bets that pay out at 2:1, like the dozens or columns. We wouldn't adivse it. You've got more chance of getting multiple losses in a row.

Quadruple Martingale
We are not going to spend much time on this one, other than to describe what it is because, frankly, we think it's a little crazy.

In a quadruple Martingale you quadruple (x4) your bets after a loss, rather than doubel them. So your betting profile goes: 1,4,16,64,256

Super Martingale
The Super Martingale is less agressive than the Triple and Quadruple, but it does ramp your bets up quicker than the Martingale Roulette System. Here's how it works:

You double your bets after a loss AND you add on unit to give you a bit more profit if and when you strike lucky and claw your losses back. So the profile is:

1,3,7,15,31,63,127,255

Note, that this still gives you 8 chances to hit a win (starting from 1), but it also means you win more than your original bet back if you win on the 2nd to 8th bets in the progression. The normal Martingale health warnings apply thoug- the longer you are at the wheel, the more likely you are to see 8 losses in a row.

Reverse Triple, Reverse Super Martingale
Of course, just as you can turn the Martingale on its head and increase your bets after a win rather than a loss, you can also play the flip side of all the these other variants- so the Anti-Triple-MArtingale, Anti-Super, Anti-Quadruple etc. It become even more important to stop when you have hit your planned sequence of wins. You can even set this at just 2.