Martingale Strategy in Crash Gambling: The Holy Grail?
If you’ve ever dabbled in trading, investing, sports betting or even gambling, the word “Martingale” has surely caught your ear before. This popular betting strategy has been around since the 18th century, so it must be good, right?
Sure you can!
You can easily apply the Martingale betting strategy to crash gambling! And that’s exactly what we did.
This article will reveal the results of us playing over 2000 rounds of crash with the Martingale strategy. But before we get into it, we’ll first tell you a bit more about the strategy and how we managed to automate the game process completely!
We’ll be using BC.Game’s casino incredible original crash game for all the demonstrations in this article. You can follow along by creating a free account!
What is the Martingale Strategy?
Although considered a single strategy, the Martingale strategy actually belongs to an entire class of Martingale strategies.
The simplest and most well-known variation of the Martingale strategy involves the player doubling the bet amount after every loss. The first win after a series of losses would recover all past losses and grant the player a profit equal to the original stake.
Martingale Strategy Example
Let’s say we decide our base bet amount is $5. We enter the game by placing $5 bets and keep our fingers crossed!
Scenario 1: We win! We take the $5 we won and set it aside. We enter a new game with 5$. Every time we win, we repeat the process and accumulate the $5 winnings!
Scenario 2: We lose! Our luck ran out, and we lost. The next bet we place doubles the bet amount, so we recover from the losing round. We place a $10 bet and hope for the best. If we win with our $10 bet, we recover the previous loss and return back to betting with our base bet amount ($5). If not, we enter scenario 3.
Scenario 3: We lose again, and again, and again. If we lose on our $10 bet, we have to double our bet amount yet again, meaning we enter the next round with $20 at stake. We continue to do so until we eventually win.
If we were to lose 5 times in a row (which is entirely possible), we would have to place a $160 bet to recover from our losses.
Final Verdict
If you’ve paid attention, you might already see the major drawback of this strategy. Doubling down on your bet requires the player to have an immense gambling budget to be able to sustain this strategy in the long term.
In our case, just 5 lost rounds in a row required us to place a $160 bet, and we could easily hit a losing streak far bigger than that. The exponential growth of the bets is what makes this strategy flawed and the reason why most gamblers that use it suffer from catastrophic losses.
Can the Martingale Strategy be Used in Crash Gambling?
Yes, the Martingale strategy can be used in crash gambling, and there are even ways to mitigate the risk levels to improve your chances of winning with this strategy in crash.
Tip!
Compared to simple games, like the coin toss, you can dictate the multiplier at which you want to cash out in crash games!
To make things a bit easier for you, games like Crash by BC Originals or Crash by Stake Originals even offer you to automate this strategy through their advanced crash gambling scripts.
Play Crash games With The Martingale Strategy Here
P.S.: You can follow this guide by playing the BC Originals Crash game!
Putting The Martingale Crash Strategy To The Test
So even though we are aware that the Martingale strategy is flawed, we still decided to give it a chance (just like we did with the 1,01X cashout strategy).
We thought to ourselves if we placed small enough bets and cashout at the 2X multiplier, we could potentially be able to make a profit without encountering losing streaks that would drive our bankroll to the ground.
You should use it as well!
We used BC.Game’s free JB cryptocurrency which is designed specifically to test the games at this casino!
Here are the settings for our first experiment!
Here is an overview of our Martingale script settings:
- We set 1 JB to be our base bet amount
- Our automatic payout multiplier was set to 2X
- The script would stop running if our bet amount exceeded 100 JB
- On a loss, our bet amount would double (as per the Martingale principle)
- On a win, our bet amount would return to its base value (1 JB)
An entire day of testing
To get reliable results, we left this script running for at least 1000 rounds of crash.
That is it, putting this strategy to work with the use of advanced betting automation tools is incredibly simple. If you want to repeat our process, read our full guide on BC.Game Crash scripts and our guide on how to really test crash strategies to learn more!
Does the Martingale Strategy Work in Crash Gambling?
We’re sorry, but you won’t find an easy yes or no answer to this question here, what you will get, however, is a full report on our experience with this strategy which is worth much more!
Our start to this journey was very promising, as you can see in the image below, we were building up a nice profit, and we felt positive!
However, after 195 rounds of crash, we stumbled upon 8 consecutive losing rounds, which meant that we had to double our base bet amount multiple times in order to win back what was lost in this losing streak.
As this bet exceeded our maximum limit of 200 JB, the script automatically stopped running. At this point, we were at a crossroads. Do we continue or do we give up after 200 rounds of crash?
TBH
If we were playing with real funds, we would have stopped playing at this point.
Since we were using “free money,” we decided to proceed with our experiment and place that 256 JB bet. Fortunately, we won, and as shown in the image below, we were back in the green!
After this initial shock, our strategy seemed to be working. Granted, we did raise the limit at which our script automatically stopped running, but we figured that such long-losing streaks should not occur that often.
After exactly 350 rounds of crash, we already had 104 JB in profits after wagering 1288 JB in total. You can see how that one losing streak caused a major disruption in our live stats chart below.
At this point, we felt comfortable leaving the strategy script running unattended overnight. However, we were in for a big surprise the next morning.
Sometime during the night, after 905 rounds of crash, we stumbled upon 11 consecutive losing rounds, which drove our bankroll to the ground. We lost absolutely every single one of our free JB coins.
We felt devastated, even though we were aware that this was coming. We got caught up in believing that this might actually work, that we found the holy grail of crash gambling strategies, but in the end, we could describe our feelings with a quote from a 2017 meme:
My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined.
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But we did not stop there, we quickly asked BC’s support agents to replenish our wallet with some more JB coins and started optimizing our strategy.
Low-Risk Crash Martingale Strategy
Our second attempt at the Martingale crash strategy took a different route. We kept all of our settings the same, but we decided to cash out our winnings at the 1.5X multiplier automatically.
Indeed, a win would not double our money, but we thought it was worth trying since we significantly increased our odds of winning and decreased the chances of long-losing streaks with a lower payout multiplier.
If you want to know how changing the payout multiplier influences your odds of winning in crash gambling, read our guide on crash gambling odds!
After exactly 1000 rounds of us running this low-risk crash Martingale strategy script, we finished our journey with 678 wins, 322 losses and 46,5 JB in profit!
While it is true that we finished this experiment with a profit, keep in mind that we still had to wager 1845 JB in order to get a measly return of 46,5 JB.
Repeat, repeat, repeat
Strategies like this need to be tested over a much greater amount of time to be able to claim that it is securely profitable.
And while we did end up finishing our 1000-round journey with a profit, we could easily lose it all in the next 100 rounds, so keep that in mind.
Do you want to try this strategy on your own?
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Should You Use The Martingale Strategy in Crash?
After conducting two Martingale strategy experiments in crash, we can safely say that we do not recommend using the Martingale strategy.
In order to sustain the Martingale strategy over a prolonged amount of time, you need two things:
- An incredibly big bankroll
- The courage to place some ridiculously high bets
Most of us do not have the capacity to afford such a gambling bankroll, and if we did, we are sure that our money would be better invested in other ventures.
We can back our claims against this strategy with numerous research papers, with our favourite analysis being the one from Daniel Oehm. After his thorough examination of the Martingale strategy, he concluded with the following quote.
The classic and Reverse Martingale strategies don’t work. They will almost certainly have you leaving with less money than what you started with, or more often than not no money at all.
In a 2019 research by Peter Pflaumer, the same conclusion is to be observed. Players that do follow the Martingale betting strategy expose themselves to incredible amounts of risk, and no long-term profits are guaranteed.
What About Our Low-Risk Martingale Crash Strategy?
Sure, one could claim that a low-risk martingale strategy could work based on our findings. However, you need to be aware of a thing called “The Gambler’s Fallacy”.
Believing that our strategy could work based on a set of limited and randomized results is a typical example of a gambler’s fallacy. You cannot trust a set of data from the past, let alone randomized gambling data, to assure you of the same result in the future.
Beware!
Applying reason and logic will prevent you from falling into the gamblers fallacy trap and down a path of loss and disaster.
Last but not least, following a strict betting strategy or even automating this strategy is kind of boring, it takes out all the thrill from crash gambling and turns this fun activity into something far too serious. Where’s the fun in that?
Pros and Cons of Martingale Strategy
As you might have figured out by now, there are more cons to this strategy than pros. However, it we’re always trying to find the positives in every situation.
We like the Martingale strategy because…
✅ It teaches novice crash gamblers about the reality of betting strategies
✅ It forces players to think about bankroll management strategies
✅ Players start researching concepts such as odds, gambler’s fallacies and more
✅ There is still a potential for short-term winnings (tread carefully!)
And we don’t like it because…
❌ It leads to catastrophic losses in the long term
❌ It gives gamblers false hope
❌ You expose yourself to great amounts of risk for a relatively small profit
❌ It is based on an inherently flawed way of thinking
Final Thoughts
There you have it, we certainly hope we didn’t crush your spirit with this article. Even though our results aren’t exactly what we hoped they would be, it was still a great lesson, and we hope you feel the same way!
Keep in mind that the Martingale strategy is just one of the many strategies you can implement and automate with BC.Game’s casino original crash game.
If you have ideas for your strategies, we recommend you head straight to BC.Game, make a free account today and start experimenting!
Always remember to gamble responsibly and have fun, that’s what crash gambling is all about!
Frequently Asked Questions
All crash casinos allow you to play with the Martingale strategy; however, only two games allow you to automate the Martingale crash gambling strategy fully. Those games are Crash by BC Originals and Crash by Stake Originals.
You can find Stake’s original crash game in Stake casino and BC’s original crash game in BC.Game casino! Good luck!
No, Martingale is not the best crash gambling strategy. Crash gambling is a pure luck-based endeavour, meaning no strategy can assure you wins. We recommend you implement responsible bankroll management habits to avoid catastrophic losses.
You can mitigate your risk levels by placing smaller bet amounts. You can also choose to payout your crash winnings earlier. Both of these adjustments will severely lower your potential profits, but they also limit your potential losses and risk exposure.
