Roulette is one of the most popular online casino games. It is also one of the oldest casino games and uses a roulette wheel as the key element of the game. The roulette wheel has numbered pockets ranging from zero to thirty-six. European Roulette wheels have one zero pocket, and American roulette wheels have two zero pockets. You may place bets on any particular number, or numbers.
Once the bets have been placed, the wheel starts spinning and a ball is spun onto the wheel in the opposite direction to that of the spinning wheel. The ball loses speed fast and stops in one of the pockets. The number of the pocket where the ball stops on the roulette wheel is the winning number.
How to Play Roulette
1) Place your wagers on the number(s).
2) Bets are placed and then the croupier says "no more bets".
3) The ball drops into a pocket.
4) The croupier marks the winning place on the table and collects the bets to pay the roulette winner.
The House Advantage
Roulette has a house advantage of 2.7% for European roulette (37 pockets), and a 5.26% house advantage for American roulette (38 pockets).
'En Prison' rule
En Prison lets you retrieve half of your bet when the ball lands on a zero. Alternatively you can leave it �En Prison' (in prison) on the roulette table for a one more round of bets.
'La Partage' rule
�La Partage' affords you only the opportunity to retrieve half of your bet when the ball lands on a zero.
Roulette payouts
Column Bet or Outside Dozen is placed on any of the three columns of twelve numbers running along the table and pays out odds of 2-1
Outside Even Money Area pays out odds of 1-1.
Straight-Up is when you gamble on one number of the roulette wheel with payout odds of 35 to 1.
2-number bet ' Split Bet' pays out odds of 17-1. 3-number bet 'Street Bet' pays out odds of 11-1.
4 -number bet Corner Bet pays out odds of 8- 1.
6-number bet pays out odds of 5-1.
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