The Rules of Roulette (American Roulette)

Roulette is one of the oldest betting games and today like 100 years ago people wait with a sinking heart the ball to stop. Someone is lucky. Someone believes in calculating. But everyone has fun playing roulette!

The goal of the game is to bet and to win. A “croupier” (or “dealer”) spins roulette wheel and launches a small ball. When the wheel stops, the ball rests in one of the slots with number.

Roulette Wheel

The roulette wheel in the American Roulette has 38 slots: 0, 00 and 1-36. The order of numbers isn’t random and they aren’t placed one after another. The position of numbers is specific:

• red numbers are placed after black ones;
• usually two even numbers are situated after two odd numbers;
• all red numbers are opposite to black numbers;
• every odd number is opposite to even number which goes after it (for example: 1 is opposite to 2; 9 is opposite to 10, etc)
• the majority of numbers makes a pair. Between this pair is paced any one number, but the sum of the numbers is 37 or 39.

Zero (“0”) and Double Zero (“00”) are green. The others numbers are red or black.

Roulette table

The roulette table has Inner section and Outside section.

Inner section has all the numbers. Three numbers in order form a row, vertical lines of numbers make a column with twelve numbers.

Outside section contains special places for outside bets: low or high, black or red, odd or even, columns, dozens.

Bets

The bets are divided in inside bets and outside bets.

Remember, rules say that the sum of all of your bets must sum up to at least the board minimum. That means if you are playing at a roulette $10 minimum table and wish to bet on unique roulette numbers, you can gamble $1 on each of 10 figures, or $10 on one number, or any combination between both, but your bet on the inside must total at least the $10 minimum.

Six types of inside bets:

Five types of outside Bets

Surrender rule

There is surrender rule in some casinos. It means that if “0” or “00” come up then the even money bets lose half of their stake, and all other bets lose the total stake. For example if the player bet 5$ on “7”, “29”,“odd” and “black” and the ball rested in the “0” slot, he loses all the inside bets (10$ for bet on “7” and “29”) and half of bet even bets (5$ for bet on “odd” and “black”). 5$ will return to the player.

It’s easy. Isn’t it? So before going to a real casino try your luck in online roulette. Online gambling has its own advantages: you can play staying home, you can avoid the crowd and you haven’t to go home with your winnings through the dark alley. Choose one of roulette games and enjoy!

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