Oscar’s Grind is a roulette strategy, also known as Holyes Press, and it has many similarities with the Paroli strategy. They are both designed to take advantage of whether a table is ‘hot’ or ‘cold’. This means that Oscar’s Grind is based on wins and losses coming in streaks. When those streaks do come, the advantage of Oscar’s is particularly great. However, the fact is that there won’t always be winning or losing streaks, which means the strategy has its drawbacks too. In the following article, we will take a closer look at these pros and cons, as well as how Oscar’s Grind can be used at the tables.
How Oscar’s Grind works
As with most roulette strategies, Oscar’s Grind is designed to play off of the betting options that give money back twice, such as even/odd numbers and red/black color. However, it can also be used on other alternatives.
The strategy is very simple, and involves the use of different sequences, with the goal of each sequence being to reach a total profit equal to the amount of the initial bet. Once this profit is achieved, the sequence is ended and a new one starts. To achieve total profit, the bet must always be increased by one unit on a win, while it must remain the same on a loss, and reset to the original bet when a sequence ends. Let’s illustrate this with an example:
You start your first sequence by placing a bet of 10 crowns on red. Luck is with you and you win your bet. This means that the sequence ends, since you have made a total profit on your original 10 crowns bet.
At the end of a sequence, the bet must always be reset to what it was before. Therefore, you will now start a new sequence, and will again place a bet of 10 crowns. This time you will lose your bet, and will therefore have to bet 10 crowns again, as the bet must always be the same in case of a loss. Once again you lose, which means that you have now achieved a total loss of 20 crowns (10 + 10 crowns) in this sequence. Since this bet was lost, the bet will remain the same and you will now bet 10 crowns again. This time your luck will change and you will end up with a win, which means that your loss for this sequence is reduced to 10 crowns.
Since you won, but still failed to make a total profit of 10 crowns, it is therefore time to increase the bet by one unit. Therefore, you place your next bet of 20 crowns, which you manage to win. With this win you have now achieved a total profit of 10 crowns, which means that the sequence ends.
There is one important exception to the rule of increasing the bet on a win. This is that you should never bet more than required to achieve a total profit equal to the initial bet.
As you can see in the example above, we won in the 10th round, which would actually mean increasing the bet to 50 in the 11th round. However, in this case, a win of 30 crowns was enough for us to make a profit equal to the original stake, which is why the stake becomes 30 crowns and not 50 crowns. Simply explained, we will not increase the bet to more than necessary.
Pros and cons
The big advantage of using Oscar’s Grind is that this strategy can handle many losses in a row, and can quickly turn those losses into wins under the right conditions. Since the bet is always the same on losses and only increases by one unit on wins, it typically takes a very long time for the total bet to reach high amounts, and the risk of this strategy is therefore relatively low. It is therefore also good for players who want to play roulette for a long time.
Although we have had 10 losing rounds, and only won five rounds, in these rounds we have managed to generate a total profit of 10 crowns.
The downside of this strategy is that it relies on wins and losses coming in streaks. When this doesn’t happen, which will often be the case, it’s easy to dig yourself into a hole that can be difficult to get out of.
Once again, we have a total of 15 rounds, of which five are wins and 10 are losses. Here, however, the outcome is quite different. Because the winning rounds didn’t come in quick succession, we didn’t make a total profit, and at the same time the total stakes are now high because of the losses. This is the danger of Oscar’s Grind.
For the strategy to work effectively, the winning rounds must come in streaks, otherwise the wins will simply result in the stakes getting higher and higher, with the losses following the same pattern. Despite the stakes only increasing by one unit at a time, eventually it will end up with amounts that are too large to handle.
Conclusion
Oscar’s Grind is an incredibly effective strategy when wins and losses come in bunches. The problem is that it depends on something not happening, as each round in roulette is unique and the probability of an outcome is always the same. Therefore, although you will often feel it when playing yourself, or talking about the game’s rounds with other players at Live Casino, there is no such thing as a ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ table in roulette.
The strategy can work really well in turning many lost rounds into profit. Under the right conditions, only a third of all rounds need to be won to create an overall profit. The downside occurs if the winning rounds don’t come in succession, which they often won’t. In this case, there is a risk that the stakes will just get bigger and bigger, which also leads to losses getting bigger and bigger.