If you’re a gambler and you take the time to go into high street bookmakers then you’ve probably noticed that they all now have a roulette bandit. Just in case you don’t know what one is, it’s like the classic bandits in pubs where you try and hit the jackpot, only it’s for roulette.

The principals of a roulette bandit in bookmakers are fairly similar to what you expect from online roulette. You’re playing against a software program with animations of a roulette wheel to make it seem real.

Horse racing and soccer betting are two of my passions so I spend a lot of my time in the bookmakers and there’s never a shortage of addicted gamblers on the roulette bandits. They’re very addictive machines and it’s very easy to lose control with them.

Roulette is a very compulsive game and when you play it on a roulette bandit you’re only pushing buttons on a screen meaning in a moment of madness after a small loss you can then have a huge loss. After suffering a loss it’s all to easy to put more money in to the machine to try and get your losses back.

Over the past few years I’ve read several reports from recovering gambling addicts who say that the roulette bandits are the worst thing ever to enter a bookie. I read about one particular man who over a 6 month period lost a five figure sum, all to the roulette bandit in his local bookmakers.

Modern roulette bandits even accept credit cards, yes you read that correctly so it’s all too easy to keep piling money into them. Some people just don’t understand that it’s absolutely impossible to win on a roulette bandit, they are programmed to take your money off you.

Many addicted gamblers will keep placing their credit cards into the machine so they can try a new “system” or “strategy” in the hopes of coming across the winning bet that will help them get their cash back.

If playing on roulette bandits is what you chose to do with you spare time then you need to be very careful. You would probably be better off playing in a land based casino, you will have a better time.

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