Chasing losses and martingale sounds the same to me, you are chasing your previous losses until nothing is left, and the house edge comes in at unexpected times, the highest amount I've spent in a martingale was $300 and but that amount was not safe even in the lowest bet because streak could go over 20, I stopped using it, it's just not worth it.
better do selective martingale or random it's more exciting and surprising using these two methods, but don't expect to win just have fun.
But chasing losses when you're betting with a same amount is impossible because if you calculate it, you will lose due to the house edge. In martingale strategy, you have calculate if you will not lose since you win you will recover all of your previous losses, but in the reality the result isn't same like the expectation.
That's why it has been mentioned if someone want to gamble using martingale strategy, they must need an unlimited money.
Well, though it's something that no one should really apply in their gambling since it can be deadly for their bankroll, as you said, if someone has a bankroll that is too high and all they want is to earn a couple of hundred dollars, they can start playing with a very small amount, like $10, and then start doubling the bet for every lost bet, considering they have a pretty large bankroll, let's say about $100k, they can manage to win some money at the end if they don't get greedy.
The problem occurs when we get greedy and don't stop when the strategy works a few times, and we just keep playing and doing the same thing only to get more and more and that is when the house edge does its magic.
Martingale is an strategy that would really be blowing up your account in shortest time as possible, no matter how minimal or small the base bet would be, there's no way on stopping that consecutive losses that you would really be able to experience. Casinos arent that dumb anymore about this strategy. I have been testing out for how many times and how many places about this martingale stuff but it turns out that i do really make out some bankroll wipe out which is something that really not shocking anymore. It may seem that it is impossible for it to have that long streak but you would believe it out
once you would be experiencing it for yourself.
This is why its really important that you shouldnt really be making yourself that in automation or leaving it out afk'ed because once you do came back then its most likely it had wiped out your bankroll.
Even when you are playing on point then there's no way on stopping those consecutive losses which is something that would likely to happen. If you do like on making your gambling session to be more
in longer duration then it would really be just that right that you should be making some bets manually on each roll. Dont take up some strategies which do fasten up the situation.
If you dont mind about the risks then its up to your own choice because there are people who are fond on making use of martingale.