In the popular game of roulette, you must guess speculate where the ball will stop after each spin. To a large extent roulette id luck dependent. You play roulette against the house, and the croupier, the dealer, stands for the house. To play, the croupier spins the roulette wheel as well as handling both the bets and payouts. European and French roulette versions differ slightly because they have a roulette wheel with 37 slots representing 36 numbers and a zero. American roulette wheels have two zeros and as a result have 38 slots.

Play procedure

•  Start to play the game of roulette by placing your bet on numbers. After all of the roulette players placed their bets, the dealer spins the ball. Select any number from zero on up for your number either in the table layout, or outside the table layout.

•  You can place bets until the croupier yells no more bets can be placed. When the ball is spinning around players can still place bets.

•  The dealer then places the dolly on the winning number on the table, then empties the table of all losing bets and pays the winners.

•  To win at roulette your bet has to land on or around the number that comes up.

The house advantage
The house advantage is 2.7% in European and French roulette versions. When playing on a double zero, American roulette table) it is 5.26% (and 7.9% on the five-number bet, 0-00-1-2-3).

The 'En Prison' rule
Whenever the result is zero because the ball landed on zero, some casinos will allow players to take back half their bet or, conversely to leave their bet for one more roulette spin. This is called 'en prison' meaning in prison. In an entirely different case, following the spin, the outcome is again zero, and then the entire bet money is lost.

The ' La Partage' rule
When the player loses half of their bet because the ball landed on a zero, it is called 'la partage".

The payouts
Now will explain straight-up bets. This is a bet placed on just one number, and it pays 35 to 1. In other words, you collect 36. When the house has no advantage, you should collect 37 (and 38 in on double zero roulette wheels - USA ).

A quick review of some other bets:

•  A two-number bet - a split bet �17 to 1

•  A three-number bet - street bet, - pays out 11 to 1

•  A four-number bet - corner bet- pays out 8 to 1

•  A six-number bet - pays out 5 to 1

•  Bets on the outside dozen or column - pays out 2 to 1