Roulette Board Overview
| Roulette Board Overview.
Roulette is the third biggest Casino game in the world because of its relative simplicity. There are two versions of Roulette: the European and the American Roulette. Let's focus on the American version. The American double zero increases the house edge. Roulette payouts are not pot luck or simple jackpot wins, although they vary depending on what was wagered in the first place and where the chip is placed on the mat. Straight bets yield the highest payouts because they have the worst odds of winning. A straight bet is choosing one number to win. You can also choose zero or double zero. The payout is 35 to 1. It's so high because you obviously have a one in 38 chance of winning. You can choose this bet on its own if you have cash to burn. You can increase your chances but get a high payout (at least where roulette payouts are concerned) by splitting your bet. This means that you put your chip between two numbers on the board. If it lands on either of these numbers you get a 17 to 1 payout. You can take this option even further by using corner bets - yielding an 8 to 1 payout. You can use different combinations. Perhaps the easiest method the most rewarding (in the long run) is to bet on red or black. However this gives a low payout, which is even to how much you wagered. Suppose if you bet and win, you get your back with an extra . Identical to this is the odd and even bet. Simply bet on whether the ball will land on an odd or even number. You don't have to decide the exact number it lands on though. High bets are between 1 and 18, and low bets are between 19 and 36. A winning bet would simply grant a payout of 1 to 1. Of course these payouts can alter as you use different combinations at once - but in doing so you decrease your odds of winning, and you can quickly burn through your whole bank balance. The simplest method is to bet on odd or even and red or black. Combine this with the Martingale system of doubling your bet amount after a loss and you will always be in the positive. It just depends on how big your bank balance is. So the bets to avoid are probably all single number bets and the five number bet because these types of bets have the largest disparity between true odds and actual payouts. |
The game of European Roulette is played by spinning a small ball on a round wheel. There are thirty-seven slots on the wheel, all the slots are numbered. The spinning ball lands in one of the numbered pockets after the wheel stops. The player is to predict the number of the pocket in which the ball will land. If you predict the number of the section in which the ball stops, you win. The size of your winning depends on how the bet was placed.
Playing Roulette.
Placing a bet.
There are chips to place a bet. Your chips are stacked by denomination (, , , 0, 0) at the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. You have to select the amount you would like to wager on a given roll(s). To choose a chip you have to click the left mouse button on the chip you want to bet with. After choosing a chip you have to place your bet on the Roulette table by clicking on a bet field. To specify a bet that does not equal to an existing chip denomination, simply click on another chip denomination after placing your previous chip on the table. For example, to bet , click on the chip and place it on the table then click on the chip and place it on top of the chip. If you want to repeat your last bet hit the "0" button of your numeric keyboard. Depending on where you choose to place your chips, you can bet on anywhere from one to eighteen numbers with a single bet. After placing bets you can spin the wheel. To spin the roulette wheel press the "Spin" button in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen or click on the roulette wheel. Above the game menu you can see a history table, in which the results of the previous winnings are shown. In the history table there are numbers of different color. The Yellow numbers mean that they belong to the Black set of numbers, the Red numbers - to the Red set of numbers and the Green colored number is '0'. You can spin the wheel without putting a bet on the table by pressing the "Pass" button. You can place eight different kinds of bets on the European Roulette table. Each type of bet covers a certain range of numbers. Each bet has its own payoff rate. Rows are short lines of three numbers each. Columns are long lines with twelve numbers each. There exist inside and outside bets. Inside bets are made on the numbered space or on the lines between them. Outside bets are made on the special boxes below and to the right of the board. Straight Up bet is a bet on any single number (including zero). Split Bet is a bet on the line between any two numbers, here 0-1, 0-2, 0-3 combinations are not allowed. Street Bet is a bet placed at the end of any row of numbers. A street bet covers three numbers. Corner Bet is a bet at the corner where four numbers meet. Corner bet covers four numbers. Line Bet is a bet at the end of two rows at the intersection between them. A line bet covers all the numbers in either row, for a total of six. Column Bet is a bet in one of the boxes at the end of the columns. Column bet covers all the numbers in that column, a total of twelve. The zero is not covered by any of the columns. Dozen Bet is a bet placed in the box marked 12P and covering numbers 1 to 12, 12M covering numbers 13 to 24, 12D covering numbers 25 to 36. Red/Black, Even/Odd, Low/High is a bet placed in one of the six boxes and covering the half of the board described in that box. Each box covers eighteen numbers. Low covers numbers 1 to 18. High covers numbers 19 to 36.
Roulette is a wheel game. The wheel placed in a bowl spins on an axis. The wheel consists of 37 or 38 slots depending on the type of roulette:American roulette wheel contains 38 slots,European - 37. There are black and red numbers. The 0 and 00 are considered green. 8 players can participate the game at the same time. The rules suggest that the croupier spins the wheel of roulette in one direction and then rolls the ball around the edge of the wheel in the opposite direction. After the ball had fallen at one of the slots and stopped, the croupier announces the winners. The aim of roulette is to guess the number of the slot in which the ball will stop and to make the right bet. Before you start game, you buy chips from the croupier, and roulette chips are almost always different from all other chips in the casino. Each player has chips of his own color that's why the croupier knows who to pay off at the end of each spin. When the croupier announced "No more bets", hlayers cannot make bets. After the ball had stopped,the croupier puts a marker on top of the winning number on the table. If there are bets on that number,the marker is placed on top of the chips. Then all losing bets are swept off the table before the winning bets are paid off.