The D’Alembert strategy

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It’s a very straightforward system to learn, which perhaps explains its popularity to some degree. Here’s a quick guide to putting it into practice.

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RULE 1 – Decide Your Base Unit

Before you start you must decide what your base staking unit is going to be. This can be whatever you want, but we’d advise making it no more than 5% of your total bankroll. 2% is best in our opinion.

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RULE 2 – Begin With One Unit

You must stake exactly one base staking unit on the first wager of any cycle when using the D’Alembert system.

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RULE 3 – Increase Stakes After a Loss

After every losing wager, the stake for the following wager must increase by one base staking unit. If you started with $5, for example, then you would increase the stake to $10 if you lost. If you then lose again, you’d increase the stake to $15.

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RULE 4 – Decrease Stakes After a Win

After every winning wager, the stake for the following wager should decrease by one base staking unit. If a wager is won at a stake of only one unit, then it remains the same for the following wager.

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As you can see, this system is certainly simple enough to implement. And, if you do win roughly the same number of bets as you lose, then you should come out ahead. This is because your winning bets will have been at higher stakes than your losing bets.