There are many kinds of betting systems. The two most popular ones are negative progression and positive progression. Which one is best? There is no answer. Positive progression is less risky, but wouldn’t that also make it less fun? Negative progression is typically used when risking larger amount of money, so that could also be a reason for why it is considered more dangerous.
In order to understand what negative progression is, you must understand what progression means in this case. In this sense, the progression is raising your bets over and over again.
When it comes to negative progression, the goal is to increase your bet after a loss and hoping that you break even (or win more). This is why the negative progression system is widely considered to be dangerous. It could lead to a massive loss of money.
There are many “sub-categories” of negative progression. For example, one of the most popular negative progression systems is the “Martingale” system. In this system, the player doubles their bet after every loss.
Basically, negative progression is the exact opposite of positive progression. When the player loses, they bet more to make it back up. The mindset behind this is that the player would win eventually due to making higher bets than the money lose. In theory, the player should at least break even, or hopefully, make more money.
Of course, there is no guarantee that the player will win. They could just keep losing and losing. This is gambling after all. This is why players do not fully trust the negative progression system. It stems from a belief that previous events affect future events (for example, “I just lost 3 times, I can’t lose again). This is also known as “the gambler’s fallacy” and has led to some major losses in the world.
To counter this, a common belief about negative progression is that it never returns a profit. This is simply not true. The only real issue with the negative progression system is that the player is relying on pure luck rather than trying to guess the outcome of the next bet.
Keep in mind that gambling while using the negative progression system is pure randomness, and while you can lose some large amounts of money, the winning stakes can be absolutely massive.
