Roulette- Overview

Roulette game is one of the popular casino games that were originated in France. A variety of playing options are offered by this game. Normally, the game table has 37 or 38 numbered pockets. The game is to guess where the spinning ball will end up on the table. In this game the gamblers have to guess in which numbered pocket the ball will fall. Before the spin stops, the players have to place a bet by telling the number to which the ball is going to land. Roulette is a simple game to play and provide exciting and tense atmosphere. This game can be played by anyone regardless of any experience in playing casino games.

In both real casinos and online, there are five types of roulette such as roulette, European roulette, and American roulette, European roulette gold and French roulette. Online roulette does not offer the same atmosphere as that of a real life casino but players can enjoy online casinos also. Most of the online casinos are designed to provide a real playing environment. Online casino provides ultra real graphics and user interfaces in order to make the players to feel that they playing a real casino. You can play this game for free by using the demo playing modes of online casinos.

The winning of this game purely depends on pure luck. In this game the player has to decide where to place the bet and the official in the casino will spin the wheel. The landing of ball decides the win or loss of the player. Two different wheels are there in this game, the European wheel and American wheel. European wheel consist of 37 slots numbering from 0-36 and the American wheel consist of 38 numbers because in it a double zero is added. The house edge of European wheel is 2.63 and the house edge of American wheel is 5.26 because of the addition of the extra number.

Roulette layout consists of two betting areas, inside and outside areas. Inside betting areas consists of individual numbers on the layout and the outside betting area has boxes for the columns, red/black and odd/even and different groups of numbers. You have to purchase special roulette chips to play. In order to avoid disputes among players each one will get a different color chip. Each table has a minimum and maximum bet and you have to play both minimum and maximum bet with same amount. For example, if you are playing with $5 for minimum bet, then you have to play with $5 for maximum bet also. The house edge is the amount of loses by the player relative to any bet made. Called bets are different number series that have special names attached to them. The players at a table can set amount per series.