American and European Roulette Rules

At first glance, Roulette looks like an easy enough game to play, however once you learn all the aspects of the game, you may grow to respect the skill it takes to play and win at Roulette. If you have ever been in a real life casino, you might have seen a crowd of people around a table with a wheel on it. Roulette is one of the high profile games that are featured in brick and mortar casinos. There can be up to 8 players at a table both online and off. Players are not playing against each other, but rather against the dealer. The dealer is the person that will be responsible for spinning the wheel, tossing the ball and paying off winners!

Difference between Roulette Wheels for American and European Roulette

There are two different kinds of common Roulette wheels that you may have seen before; the European wheel and the American wheel. American Roulette and European Roulette are played basically in the same way; the biggest difference is the wheels they play with. When playing with the European wheel, you will notice that it has 36 slots which rotate back and forth between red and black and are labelled with numbers 1-36 on them.
 
There is also one slot that is green and marked with a single 0 for a total of 37 slots. Now when you are playing American Roulette, if you just glance between an American and a European wheel you might not see any difference. A closer look however, will reveal that although it has the same amount of numbered slots 1-36, there is an extra green slot on the wheel marked with a double zero. So the big difference is that the European Roulette wheel has 37 slots including the single zero, the American wheel has all of those slots as well as a bonus green slot with a double zero marked on it.

Object of Playing American and European Roulette

Both American Roulette and European Roulette have the same main goal. The object in both of the games is for the players to guess which slot the ball is going to land in and have placed a bet on that number before the ball is launched. When you buy in at a Roulette table, you will not be given chips of different denomination as you are with most casino games, instead each player that buys in to the table will be given chips of all the same denomination and all one color. Each player will have a different color to make it easier to keep track of your bet and so the dealer is sure that he pays the right players. At the beginning of each round, you will need to decide where you want to place your chips. You could just pick your favourite number, which is 33, that should be easy enough right? But then you go to place your chip on the 33 and you notice that not only is it your favourite number, but it is on a black square and it is a big odd number. That's 3 more bets you can make on just one simple number!

Betting on Roulette – Bets Allowed on the Roulette Wheel

As mentioned above, there are more things than just the number the ball lands on that you can place a bet on. Here are the different things you can bet on besides just the number it will land on. You can bet on one number, 3 numbers or even 12 numbers, or you can just bet on which color slot it is going to land in, either black or red. You can also bet on whether the ball will land in a slot that has an odd number or an even number. The last way to bet is to pick if the number will be a big number or a little number. The little numbers are 1-18 and the big numbers are 19-36.
 
Once everyone at the table has had a chance to place their wagers, the dealer will loudly announce that there will be 'No more bets' and that will be the end of the betting portion. Then the dealer will spin the wheel and launch the ball. When the ball finally comes to rest in a slot, the dealer will announce the winning number. At this point the dealer will go to the table and pay all winning bets. Then players can pick up their chips and place their next bet, and then the fun starts all over again! To have the best odds of winning, be sure to check out the odds of the different bets.

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