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).
The croupier then spins a wheel in one direction, and a ball in the other direction and where the ball stops determines the winner. 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.
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The pockets of the roulette wheel are numbered from 1 to 36. In number ranges from 1 to 10 and 19 to 28, odd numbers are black and even are red. In ranges from 11 to 18 and 29 to 36, odd numbers are red and even are black.
There is a green pocket numbered 0 (zero). In American roulette, there is a second green pocket marked 00. Pocket number order on the roulette wheel adheres to the following clockwise sequence in most casinos:.
27-30-32-35-3-24-16-33-1-20-14-31-9-22-18-29-(0/00)-6-34-17-7-4-(00)-2nd12-21st13-(0)-11th28
Roulette players have a variety of betting options. Placing inside bets is either selecting the exact number of the pocket the ball will land in, or a small range of pockets based on their proximity on the layout.
Players wishing to bet on the ‘outside’ will select bets on larger positional groupings of pockets, for example: betting on ‘Black’ will usually result in approximately half of your bet being returned if successful as it covers 18 of 38 possible outcomes; betting on ‘1st 12’, ‘2nd 12’, or ‘3rd 12’, will result in approximately a third of your bet being returned if successful as it covers 12 of 38 possible outcomes; betting on ‘1 to 18′ or ’19 to 36’ will result in approximately a third of your bet being returned if successful as it covers 18 of 38 possible outcomes; betting on ‘Even’, ‘Odd’, ‘Red’, or ‘Black’ will result in approximately half of your bet being returned if successful as it covers 18 of 38 possible outcomes; betting on ‘Dozen 1 (1st 12)’, ‘Dozen 2 (2nd 12)’, or ‘Dozen 3 (3rd 12)’ will result in approximately a third of your bet being returned if successful as it covers 12 of 38 possible outcomes; betting on column bets, such as ‘1st column’, results in approximately a third of your bet being returned if successful as it covers 12 out 38 possible outcomes; and finally betting on ‘Even Money Bets’ such as ‘[Black] Odds & Evens’ will result in exactly half your bet being returned if successful as it covers 18 out of 38 possible outcomes.
There are two types of roulette wheels: American roulette wheels and European roulette wheels. Both have 37 compartments for holding balls, but they differ slightly with regard to structure and function. The European style has 37 slots representing 36 numbers plus 0. The American style has an extra slot, 00 for a total of 38 slots representing 37 numbers plus 0 and 00.
European Roulette offers better odds with roughly half the house edge compared to American Roulette. That’s because European Roulette has only one zero slot instead of two zero slots (0 and 00), so there’s only one house number advantage over all other numbers for American Roulette.
The Devil’s Wheel nickname for Roulette likely came about because early versions had just one zero slot instead of two like American Roulette does today. So with just one zero slot, European Roulette offered much better odds than its American counterpart which had two zero slots (0 and 00). And since most people believe that devils are crafty tricksters that enjoy taking advantage of people through deception and lies, it made sense that early European Roulettes with just one zero slot were given this nickname since they offered much better odds than their two zero slot American counterparts!.
