Premise
The game of European Roulette is played by spinning a small ball on a round wheel with thirty-seven numbered slots. The ball comes to rest in one of these slots when the wheel stops. The object of European Roulette is to correctly predict the slot in which the ball will land. You earn a payoff on your bet.
How to Play
Players, usually up to eight, play against the house represented by the croupier of if you are playing online the automatic dealer. The roulette wheel has 37 slots representing 36 numbers and one zero.
Each player buys-in a different colored chips so their bets don't get mixed up. At the end of play, if you won, you exchange back the colored chips with cash chips. These are special chips with the value amount imprinted on them. There are several denominations in various colors. You then take these chips to the cash desk where they will give you actual cash money in exchange.
The winning number will be noted on the table with a marker. Winning bets will have a "W" chip placed on top of them.
Zero Rule
Wagers on red, black, even, odd, low, and high shall be lost if the roulette ball drops to Zero (0).
Racetrack Bets
Racetrack or horseshoe bets are placed by clicking on a specific number in the racetrack. Each bet involves 5 chips. One chip is placed on the number that the user clicks and four chips on either side of that number making a row of five chips.
The table below shows the sequence of numbers on the Roulette wheel. Read clockwise starting from zero ð left to right ð Row 1, 2, 3. The letter R indicates a RED number and the letter B indicates a BLACK number.
| 0 | 32R | 15B | 19R | 4B | 21R | 2B | 25R | 17B | 34R | 6B | 27R | 13B |
| 36R | 11B | 30R | 8B | 23R | 10B | 5R | 24B | 16R | 33B | 1R | 20B | 14R |
| 31B | 9R | 22B | 18R | 29B | 7R | 28B | 12R | 35B | 3R | 26B | ---- | ---- |
Types of Bets and Payouts in Roulette
There are 16 types of bets in Roulette. By placing the chips differently, you can bet on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12 or 18 numbers.
The following table is a list of the types of bets and the corresponding payouts for a winning bet.
Bet Category Payout
Even 1:1
Odd 1:1
Red 1:1
Black 1:1
1-18 1:1
19-36 1:1
1-12 2:1
13-24 2:1
25-36 2:1
Any Column 2:1
Any Number 35:1
Two-number combination 17:1 (0 and 00 American Roulette only)
Three-number combination 11:1
Four-number combination 8:1
Six-number combination 5:1 |
