Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Introduction to the Roulette Game


Introduction to the Roulette Game

The most popular casino game in Europe is the roulette game. I think this is because of the environment surrounding the game in the casino, the odds of the game, the simplicity of the rules and the many myths of fortunes lost and won on a single spin.

Most people believe they know how a roulette table looks like - but if you actually ask them they most often don't know exactly how the game looks. There is two different kinds of roulette wheels. A European wheel with 36 numbers and a single zero and an American wheel with 36 numbers and a zero and a double zero. The numbers on the European wheel are not placed in any order - while the numbers on the American wheel are placed in groups of numbers opposite each other - 1 opposite to 2, number 3 is opposite number 4 and so on.

The word 'roulette' is French for 'a little wheel'. The popularity of the roulette game origins from the casino in Monte Carlo - where it has spread throughout the rest of the world since the beginning of the last century. Today you will have a hard time finding a casino without a roulette table.

Perhaps you have heard the classic story about the Englishman Charles Wells who arrived to Monte Carlo in June 1891 with 10.000 Franc in his pocket? He won a million franc in a few days - four month later he returned to the casino and won yet another million franc. So far so good. Had Charles Wells only had the chance to visit and read Online-Casinos.com he would have invested his money and lived rich and happy for the rest of his life. But unfortunately for him he returned the next year and lost all his money back to the casino - he later became a small time criminal and died a very poor man. Before his death he had explained that he had simply been very lucky - there was no winning system behind his big wins.

This is exactly the case with roulette gambling. You can be lucky to win at the roulette table in the short run. But over the long run the casino will always have the edge over the player - no matter what betting system you are using.

The casino always have the odds of winning on there side in every casino game. Except in blackjack where card counters can figure out when they have a small edge and adjust there bet size accordingly. Also a couple of video poker variants can give the player a return above 100% - but that requires perfect play - without making any mistakes at all.

So now know the most basic information you will need to know about the roulette game:

The casino always has the edge in the long run
You can win in the short run if you are lucky.
The Roulette game is a game of chance - not a skill game.
No betting system can make you beat the roulette table in the long run.
Let's end this roulette game introduction with a few quotes about the roulette game:

'You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.' Quote: Albert Einstein

'A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.' Quote: George Augustus Sala (1828-1895) English writer and journalist

'The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.' Quote: Bernard Shaw

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