Roulette

ROULETTE - Summary

Roulette is a casino and gambling game, which is one of the easiest casino games to play in the casino, but as it is known the easier a game is to understand the greater the house edge. Roulette was first devised and played in 17th century France, by the mathematician Blaise Pascal. Today, it is one of the most popular European gambling games and Monte Carlo in Monaco is a well known and famous casino center for playing roulette. Usually, there are six to eight sets of different colored chips, each set consisting of 300 chips and a wheel at the Roulette table. Roulette can be played in both American and European variants, even there is one more type of Roulette, that is a hybrid of the these versions, and is the only kind of wheel that is legal in the United Kingdom. The third type of Roulette has an American layout and a single zero.

ROULETTE - American Rules

When playing American Roulette players use "non-value" chips, all the chips belonging to the same player are of the same value determined at the time of the purchase, and the player cashes in the chips at the roulette table. An American type of Roulette uses a wheel, which consists of 38 numbered slots: numbers 1 to 36, a zero, and a double zero, and the betting layout consists of every individual number, a host of "outside" or combinations of numbers. Before th Roulette action begins each player makes his bets, then the dealer spins the wheel and just a few moments before the ball is about to drop over the slots, the croupier says 'no more bets', so from that moment no one is allowed to place - or change - his bets until the ball drops on a slot. According to American rules the house edge on all bets is 1/19, or 5,26%.

ROULETTE - European Rules

Unlike American Roulette chip, European Roulette uses standard casino chips of differing values as bets, which can make the game more confusing for both the croupier and the players. European Roulette wheel has only one zero, the roulette table is much larger than an American roulette table, and the croupier uses a long tool called a rake to clear out the chips and to distribute winnings. European Roulette features a favorable "en prison" rule, according to which if the player makes any even money bet (red, black, odd, even, 1-18, 19-36) and the ball lands in zero the player either gets half the bet back or it becomes imprisoned. Under the "en prison" rule, if an imprisoned bet wins on the next spin it is released and the player gets it back, without winnings. In European Roulette, the house edge advantage is of of 2.7%.