Online Roulette
Another game that should need no introduction. The French classic that has become a worldwide favourite must be a candidate for the most famous casino game of all. Enduringly entertaining.
Roulette - About
European Roulette is played by a small ball being spun around an already spinning wheel containing 37 numbered slots. When the ball comes to rest in one of these slots and the wheel stops the number of the slot is the winning number. The object of all forms of roulette is to correctly predict the winning number. There are many ways of betting which number is the winning number and the payoff is determined by how you bet.
European Roulette has 37 slots with numbers 1 through 36 and a single 0 (zero). The numbered slots are coloured red or black with 0 being green. European Roulette offers a better chance of winning than American Roulette as an American Roulette wheel has an extra slot, 00, giving a total of 38 slots.
History of Roulette
Unlike most casino games Roulette has a well known and written about past. Roulette was first devised in France in the 17th century. In 1842 the Blanc brothers added a 0 (zero) to the Roulette wheel giving the house an edge on the players.
In the early 1800’s Roulette spread to the USA where an extra slot, 00 (double zero), was added to give the house an even better edge.
One other point of interest here is the urban myth that one of the Blanc brothers sold their sole to the Devil to acquire the knowledge of how to create European Roulette. This stems from the fact that if you add up all of the numbers 1 to 37 they add up to 666, the ‘number of the beast’.
Roulette Rules
The object of European Roulette is to correctly predict the winning number that the Roulette ball with stop at on the Roulette wheel after each spin.
There are eight types of bet available in European Roulette each covering a range of numbers on the table. Each type of bet has its own payoff.
The table is split into rows, containing three numbers, and columns, containing twelve numbers. Bet made on these numbers or on the space between the numbers are called inside bets, there are five of these type.
There are boxes to the right and below the board, these are called outside bets, there are three types of outside bet.
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