Roulette - playing the percentage game. Discipline and patience are essential to winning at the gaming tables. Most staking systems require players to chase losses by aggressively increasing stakes. Sure some days, perhaps most days, this can work, but on the disaster visits, the losses may well destroy all past wins and much more besides. Believe me I've been there, It was part of a learning curve that shaped my present winning philosophy.   If getting rich quick is your ambition, then playing roulette or other table games is sadly not the answer.   Poker, national or state lotteries can make you a millionaire overnight but roulette is highly unlikely to do so. When playing roulette, the art is to win on most visits and lose less times on bad days to winning ones. But players still come to the tables with exaggerated hopes and expectations. Put $10 on number 5. If it wins first spin, then, receiving $350 is fantastic.   However, it wont happen often, and never often enough for it to become a regular money-spinner and sadly this is the aim for players who want to win rather than simply to enjoy the action.    Winning at roulette is easy. Losing is easier. Your aim must be to win consistently, and arriving with $50 and hoping to leave with hundreds is unrealistic on nearly every occasion. The way to win consistently is to be modest in your percentage targets for winning. Roulette is a percentage game.   The odds of over 5% against you every spin on the 00 wheel mean that you should be grateful for winning even a 10% return on your playing money.   It is beyond the scope of this article how I play to win a greater percentage than 10% but it is fully explained in the book. Here is the truth: If you play with $100 and win $10, then you have done well! I suggest that your win target should be no more than 25 or 30% - say $30 if you play with $100. The lower your target, the better the chance of reaching it. 10% is safe and sensible. You crazy? Get real! you tell me. Winning ten lousy bucks? Sure as hell, that aint no fun. Agreed, I reply. So play with $1000 and win $100. Play with $10,000 and win 10%.   Would a win of $1000 please you? Thats only ten percent. Would you think you had done well? Won enough for a trip to the Caribbean or Hawaii? Most people would think taking home $1000 profit from Las Vegas was a victory. A high-rolling brings $50,000 to the Mirage Hotel each trip. He expects to win $15,000 and has won each time on his past five visits and been comped on a full RFB basis too.   His target is 30% which is not overly ambitious. But even a 10% target of $5000 would have left him with a profit big enough to make a difference to his life. Isn't that the aim? It really is that simple. Using the techniques explained in this series of articles and in the book, winning 10% is likely most times. If 10% does not satisfy you, don't aim to win 100% or 200% or even 50%.   When starting with one hundred dollars, don't expect to win hundreds. Save up a larger fighting fund so you can start with more money. Practice your skills on free websites and then aim to play modestly but with more money to use. Then set a low percentage as the profit target. It works believe me. Most people lose in the casino because they play with too little money and with too big and greedy plans to get rich.