Roulette

Initiated in France during the 17th century, Roulette (meaning ‘small wheel’) is said to have been invented by the famous French mathematician Blaise Pascal. The game has a number of variations including the French, British and American versions. Generally speaking, the three are quite similar with the French/European and American being the most popular. In the European game, the wheel has 37 slots numbered 0 to 36. The American adaptation has a double zero added to the wheel thus comprising of 38 slots in all.

Online Roulette is perhaps one of the easiest games of the online casino world. Because it is such an easy game, the house gets the greater edge. In the casino world it usually works this way; the easier the game, the more difficult the edge for the player. In Land Based casinos the chips on the roulette table have no value denomination and are color coded in order to differentiate between the players involved. This is however different in the online world. In the online world players play single-handedly on the Roulette table and can chose the amount they wish to bet by having diverse valued chips. The betting system is easy as the game allows a multiple betting styles to be incorporated in the game-play. The object of the game is to pick the winning number that appears on the roulette wheel. A player can also choose whether the number is odd, even, black or red and can also place a stake on a given sector of numbers e.g. numbers from 0 – 12; 12 – 24 and 25 – 36.

The way the game works: American game-play

The roulette wheel is spun in one direction while a small ball is rolled in the opposite. Bets are placed on the table. The ‘inside bets’ involve specific numbers picked while the ‘outside bets’ part of the betting table include bets such as the black, red, low, high, even or odd type bets.

Inside bets:

There are a few sorts of inside bets that can be made. Players can bet on an individual number or combine numbers by placing their chips on the lines separating the individual numbers. The payout varies on how closely accurate the player picks a number. If a player picks an individual number, the house pays 35 to 1. If the wager is placed on the line between two numbers, the payout is 17 to 1. Corner bets (a chip placed touching the corners of four numbers) pays 8 to 1 while the ‘basket bet,’ a five number bet placed on the zero pays 6 to 1. The ‘double street bet’ is a stake combining six numbers thus paying 5 to 1. The chip in this instance is placed on the line separating the outside and inside area straddling the row above or below.

Outside bets:

These bets are all the bets made in the boxes surrounding the individual numbers. They include red, black, odd or even wagers. The ‘dozens’ bets are made on 12 consecutive numbers whilst ‘column’ bets, are also 12 number bets consisting of numbers in one of the three vertical columns. These boxes are at the bottom of the layout. The win pays 2 to 1.

Roulette is considered by many to be the ‘King of Casino games.’ It is imaginably called so because of the glamour aspect surrounding roulette tables around the world. From Monte Carlo to Vegas, the game is one of the oldest and most high-end game types. Roulette can now be experienced in online casinos as players enjoy the thrill of the wheel. The game can easily be correlated to a lottery: the difference being that the winning outcome is a single winning number instead of six! If players believe that they have a talent in foreseeing the next number, than this is surely the game to have a go at.