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Have you heard the story of the craziest gambler? In 1994 he decided to fulfill his dream in the casino of Las Vegas on the Roulette wheel. Chris had 0,000 and he wanted to bet it on one spin of the wheel. It wasn’t very easy to find a casino that would let him make such a huge 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 chose to place his bet 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.
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Some people like the bright lights of Las Vegas. The glitz. The glamor. The shows. The restaurants. They book their room in the Flamingo, fly down, see some shows, eat at the Vegas buffets, and bet a little money on the roulette wheel. However, this is an expensive, once a year type proposition, and many people might not be able to afford to go to Vegas right now. And what if you are bored one night, and want to play some roulette, right there and right now? Roulette is a wheel game. The wheel of the roulette is spinned on an axis which is placed in a bowl. There are 37 or 38 numbered slots on the wheel, an American roulette wheel contains 38 slots, a European roulette wheel - 37. There are black and red numbers. The 0 or 00 are 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. When the ball stops and falls at one of the slots 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. When you start the the game at the roulette table, you have to buy chips from the croupier which differ 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. Players can make their bets until the croupier announces, "No more 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.
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