The overall idea for this book is good -- a simple introduction to playing roulette accompanied by some short examples of winning systems, but some how that gets lost in the translation.

The description of how to play occupies a good 60% of the book, but numerous typographical errors, and worse yet, technical errors plague this description. For example, the five-number bet illustrated on page 21 isn't the correct five-number bet at all, but rather is a three-number bet on 0-2-00. This is real confusing for the first time roulette player, which is the only real target audience for this book.

In addition to technical errors and typographicals, there are many out-right contradictions. For example, on page 40 we read "What they don't know is that there is no law of averages.". On page 43, we read "... as we have shown, the game is one of pure chance governed by the law of averages...".

Only one common winning system is mentioned, the Martingale, and then the author turns around and says that it really isn't a good system because of losing streaks and suggests just "playing numbers". Why did the author not chose a "good system" and explain mathematically why it is a good system? Or is he trying to say that no such system exists and that the only way to win is not to play?

For those looking to learn to play roulette and then extend their knowledge to include a good description of some of the common winning systems, I'd have to suggest "All About Roulette" by John Gollehon and "Secrets of Winning Roulette" by Marten Jensen, rather than this book.

Do not buy this book if you are looking for a set of guaranteed strategies for winning roulette. The author tells the beginner how the game works and describes a series of well-known betting strategies. As the author himself points out, none of the strategies are expected to win after any significant length of playing time.

This must be the first 110 page book I've read in under 5 minutes, and no I'm not a speed reader. The typesetter for this book had a very easy time: type 2 pages, then cut, and paste 38 times! Everything in this book could be written in 4 pages! (And that includes the title page!) Can we say "table needed"? After the "cut-and-paste", the remaining pages brag about web-search-engine position for the author's website and give tips like "Look for a jolly dealer". Duh?

As for the supposed "winning system", there is absolutely no mathematical reasoning or logic for the number choices given. There is no even distribution for the sequences. The numbers have every appearence of being randomly generated numbers, created from a very poor random-number generator. For roulette players in Europe and other places where single-zero wheels are used, forget this book entirely as the system applies only to double-zero wheels. And, for players here in America stuck with a double-zero wheel, you'd probably do just as well to randomly pick your own groups of numbers to use in betting progressions -- I doubt you'd do any worse.

(...) What a load of garbage. Save your money for the gambling table and find a free copy of this rubbish on the net.

This book has 32 pages of basic information about the game of roulette. 80% of the book explains the rules of the game.