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 One of the most famous casino games, the roulette is present in all the casinos of the world.
The first form of the roulette appeared in France during 17th century even though it's current form is slightly different, the French roulette has been played since then.
Easy to master and enjoy the spinning wheel of fortune is well known to be extremely addictive.
The roulette game is quite old and well established all around the world.
As stated before, the French roulette is the oldest variant, and, in its original form, the zero wasn't on the wheel it was introduced in 1842 to add a steady advantage to the house.
During the 19th century the roulette arrived in the USA where, to further enhance the house advantage, was introduced the 00 and a different layout of the numbers on the cylinder giving birth to the American variant.
The game itself is quite simple: you choose a number, the wheel spins, the ball runs and if the ball falls in the right pit, you win but each variant has it's little secrets...
The French Roulette
This is the commonest variant all around the world, directly from the historical roulette, it's cylinder (“The wheel”) is divided into 37 numbers, from 0 to 36 whereas the numbers from 1 to 36 are divided into black and red numbers and the zero has his own colour, green.
The picture below shows the layout of the table (“The green carpet”):
There are two type of bet: Inside and outside bets.
The inside bets are played in the numbers area while the outside bets are played on the remaining boxes inside bets are more risky but also more remunerative. Let's see them in detail.
Inside bets
- Straight: the simple betting on one number, it pays 35 times your bet;
- Split: when you place your bet on the border between two numbers either vertically or horizontally effectively betting on both , it pays 17 times your bet;
- Street: placing a fiche on the side of a row of 3 numbers you can bet on all the three numbers, it pays 11 times the bet;
- Square: when you place a bet on intersection of 4 numbers you place a bet on all four numbers, it pays 8 times the bet;
- Sixline: placing a fiche on the outer edge of the number area in an intersection will allow you to place a bet on two lines of numbers effectively covering six numbers with one bet, it pays 5 times your bet.
Outside bets
- Red/Black: placing bet on the black or red diamonds will allow you to place a bet on all black or red numbers of the table, it pays 1 time the bet;
- Pair/Impair: a bet on these areas will cover ever or odd numbers, it pays 1 time your bet;
- Manque/Passe: these areas cover the high or low numbers, Manque will cover numbers from1 to 18 and Passe from 19 to 36, it pays 1 time the bet;
- Group: placing a bet on the three small boxes in the outside-lower area of the table will allow you to bet on the first (P), middle (M) or last (D) 12 numbers of the table, it pays 2 times your bet;
- Column: the three small unnumbered boxes in the lower part of the table are for those who want to bet on an entire column, it pays 2 time your bet.
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