When playing roullete, it’s important to understand the odds of each bet type. Try to start by placing outside bets, which are cheaper and offer a higher chance of hitting.
Place your chips on the roulette table until the croupier (dealer) announces “no more bets.” Each player gets their own color of chip.
Origins
While the exact origins of roullete are not known for certain, it is thought to have derived from other games that use a spinning wheel. Some of the most common theories are that it came from a game that Chinese monks brought to France in the 17th century, or that it was inspired by English and Italian board games like Hoca and Biribi. In both of these games, players placed bets on a layout of numbered squares and waited for the ball to land in one of those spaces. Some even say that it sprung from a carnival game featuring a wheel that was a popular feature of traveling carnivals in the 1500’s. The most credible theory of all is that it was invented by a French mathematician named Blaise Pascal in the late 1600’s.
Bets
To the untrained eye, the numbers on a roulette wheel appear to be distributed randomly. But they are actually very carefully arranged. Most of the numbers are pairs, with two odd or even numbers alternating. The distribution of these pairs ensures that each section of the wheel contains a total of 37 or 39 numbers. Players can place outside bets on these sections of the wheel and expect to receive 2-1 if they make the correct prediction.