How Do You Play Electronic Roulette?

Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number, various groupings of numbers, the colors red or black, whether the number is odd or even, or if the numbers are high (19–36) or low (1–18).

To determine the winning number and color, a croupier spins a wheel in one direction, then spins a ball in the opposite direction around a tilted circular track running around the outer edge of the wheel. The ball eventually loses momentum and falls onto the wheel and into one of 37 (in French/European roulette) or 38 (in American roulette) colored and numbered pockets on the wheel.

The first form of roulette was devised in 18th century France. A century earlier, Blaise Pascal introduced a primitive form of roulette in the 17th century in his search for a perpetual motion machine.

The game has been played in its present form since as early as 1796 in Paris.

An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel La Roulette, ou le Jour by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796. The description included details such as the house pockets, “There are exactly two slots reserved for the bank, whence it derives its sole mathematical advantage.

” It then goes on to describe the layout with, “Two betting spaces contain their two zeros and 28 other spaces contain 28 black numbers and 9 red numbers.”.

The book was published in 1801. In 1843, François Blanc introduced the single 0 style roulette wheel in order to compete against other casinos offering the traditional wheel with single and double zero house pockets.

The single zero French wheel made its way upriver to Springfield, Massachusetts by 1866 and was soon being used by casino operators all over North America. A variation of this wheel was eventually introduced in Las Vegas in 1959 by Bill Harrah.

This eventually evolved into what we now know as American style roulette.

European style roulette has 37 pockets numbered 0-36. An American style roulette table has 38 pockets; 0, 00 and 1-36.

The extra pocket on an American table is labeled 00 and gives the casino a second chance to take your money away! The house edge on European Roulette is 2.7%, while it’s 5.26% on American Roulette – quite a difference! So if you’re going to play Roulette make sure it’s European Roulette you’re playing!.

How do you play electronic roulette? All electronic versions of roulette work pretty much the same way as regular Roulette except that instead of using a physical ball that is spun around a physical wheel by a human croupier, an electronic RNG (Random Number Generator) is used to determine where the virtual ball will land each time. Some electronic versions also have additional betting options not found on regular tables such as “neighbor bets” which allow you to bet on multiple numbers at once as well as pre-determined sections of numbers such as “the first 12”, “the second 12”, or “the third 12”.

You can usually find these extra betting options by clicking on an icon or button somewhere near where you would place your chips on a regular Roulette table layout.