Roulette is a game of fortune. An ever-popular casino game, Roulette made a seamless transition from Las Vegas and Monte Carlo casinos to online casinos. Roulette is perfectly suited for online gambling. The roulette wheel is the main element of roulette. The roulette wheel has numbered slots ranging from zero to thirty-six. European Roulette wheels have a single zero and two slots for zero on American roulette wheels. Bets can be placed on any numbers. The roulette wheel starts spinning around and a ball is spun onto the wheel in the opposite direction on the wheel. The ball stops in the slot of the winning number.
How to Play Roulette
1) Place a bet on the numbers you think will win. Bets are placed and then the croupier shouts "no more bets".
•) The ball drops into a pocket. The croupier collects the bets to pay out the winnings.
The House Advantage
• 2.7% for European roulette (37 pockets)
• 5.26% for American roulette (38 pockets)
'En Prison' rule
A bet is 'En Prison', in prison, when the winning number is zero. The "en Prison' rules gives players the option of taking back half of their bet of leaving it for another spin.
' La Partage' rule
' La Partage ' differs from 'En Prison' Players only get half of their money back when the winning number is zero.
Roulette payouts
• Column Bet / Outside Dozen any three columns of twelve numbers running along the table, payout odds 2:1
• Outside Even Money Area Payout odds 1:1
• Straight-Up bet on only one number, payout odds 35:1
• 2-number bet ' Split Bet' payout odds 17:1
• 3-number bet 'Street Bet' payout odds 11:1
• 4-number bet Corner Bet payout odds 8:1 • 6-number bet payout odds 5:1
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