Roulette is a casino game that involves putting chips or cash on the table and waiting for the croupier to spin the wheel. The croupier will then give you coloured roulette chips that represent the value of your bet.
A roulette wheel has 36 pockets, 18 of which are red and the rest black (plus a 0 and 00 in American roulette). The house edge on even-money bets is 1-1.
Origin
Roulette is one of the most popular casino games. While its exact origin is unknown, it has been linked to a number of other gambling games, including hoca and portique. There is also anecdotal evidence that Roman soldiers played a game that was fairly similar to modern-day roulette. The game involved spinning a shield with symbols on it, and the symbol that stopped in front of an arrow was the winner.
The modern roulette wheel and game were first introduced in 18th-century France. The game was based on the wheel used in a version of the Italian game Biribi and Blaise Pascal’s quest to create a perpetual motion machine. Other theories claim that roulette originated in China and was transmitted to France by Dominican monks.
Bets
There are several different types of bets in roullete, each with its own payout. These include voisins du zero (neighbors of the zero, 17 numbers that are close to it on the wheel), jeu zero (zero game) and le tiers du cylindre (12 numbers in a row on the opposite side of the wheel from the zero). You can also place what are known as Outside Bets, which cover categories of numbers rather than individual ones.
