Roulette Game Guide
Chris Boyd seemed to be the craziest gambler in history. In 1994 he decided to fulfill his dream in the casino of Las Vegas on the Roulette wheel. He had saved up 0,000 and he wanted to risk and to put this sum on one spin. It took him much time to find in Las Vegas a casino, in which he could place such a bet. With refusals from most of the major casinos, Chris was referred to Binion’s Horseshoe Club. The maximum table bet on red/black bet in Horseshoe Club was 0,000, but they met him halfway and let him make this bet. The casino also agreed to block out the double-zero on the wheel as this didn’t exist in the European version of the game that Chris was used to playing. Chris placed all his money on red. The casino and the dealer agreed to a few practice spins to ensure that full fairness for everyone concerned, and then the big spin came. The ball landed in number 7, red. Chris won 0,000 instantly, and asked for the money to be put into the casinos cage, and vowed never to gamble again.
| Roulette Game Guide. Players try to predict the number on which the ball will stop and they place a bet on this number or numbers. The player wins if the spinning ball stops on the number he has made a bet on. Choose a bet before the game starts. Click on the betting unit in the bottom-right corner of the screen to place a bet. Place your mouse cursor over the number that you want to wager on and click on it to place your bet. You can select as many numbers to bet on as you like, but here you must remember about your money limits. Types of bets in the game of Roulette. Inside Bets. If you choose an inside bet you make a bet on a single number or on the lines of the boxes to indicate a group of two to six numbers. Inside bets include Straight Bet, Split Bet, Street Bet, Corner Bet, Five-number Line Bet, Six-number Line Bet. Outside Bets. You have to place your chips on the table in the areas that are marked with groups of numbers, odd/even, red/black or the odds. There are several types of outside bets: Column Bet, Dozen Bet, Red/Black Bets, Odd/Even Bets, High/Low Bets. |
Spinning a ball on a round wheel is the main feature of the game of Roulette. The wheel has thirty-seven numbered slots. The spinning ball lands in one of the numbered pockets after the wheel stops. The object of European Roulette is to correctly predict the slot in which the ball will stop. 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.
Betting.
Special chips are used to make 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. You spin the wheel after you have made a bet or bets. 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. There are three different colored numbers in the history table. 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'. Press the "Pass" button to make the wheel spin without making a bet. 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.
Most gamblers come to the casino without setting their bank roll limit, which is the most common mistake. When you go and visit a casino only take a certain amount of money with you for gambling purposes, and leave all your plastic cards at home. When you spend your entire bank roll move on and find something else to do, don't bother getting emotionally involved with the games you're playing because it's the quickest way to spend much more money! When you choose a certain game to play at the casino, you should know well in advance exactly how the game works and how to play it scientifically so you win more money. Most players hit games they don't know, thus they lose more than they can gamble. In some casinos players are offered different kinds of alcohol drinks for free. Drinking impairs your judgement and gets you emotionally involved within the game thus losing feels worse, and most importantly you won't be able to play using scientifically proven strategies that shrink the odds of the casino winning. The third mistake is drinking while playing casino games. Whatever you do, don't gamble if you are going to be drinking. It just makes no sense and just drains your bank roll! You can always find a better casino with better odds, bonuses, promotions and conditions for players. New players use the strategies of other gamblers, as they believe that it can help them to win. In fact they are mistaken here. Play your own way and never stick to strategies of other gamblers.