An interesting fact you may not know about Roulette is that if you add together all of the numbers on a roulette wheel they total 666, the Devil's number
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American Roulette Tutorial
American Roulette is by far the most popular game in British Casino's.
By law a single zero French wheel must always be used.
In Britain the French wheel combined with American style dealing offers the player a faster and more exciting game with a better chance of winning.
The French wheel has thirty-seven (37) numbers (1 to 36 plus a single Zero), therefore the mathematical odds of choosing the correct number are 36 to 1 against. The casino only pays 35 to 1 (plus you keep your stake) for a winning bet on a single number, called a Straight-Up. The casino has a mathematical advantage over the player, this is how it makes it's money.
Each roulette table is equipped with a set of "colour chips" in several, usually about eight, different colours. Each player plays a different colour. The table also has a float of cash chips with monetary values marked on them. These are used for payment of cash chip winning bets or part-payment of colour chip winning bets. Players buy their colour chips from the croupier using cash or cash chips. When finished playing they request the croupier to change the colour chips into cash chips which can then be exchanged for cash at the casino cash-desk or used to buy-in at other tables within the casino.
In addition to betting on "layout bets" (shown in the photographs on this page) players can bet on Red, Black, Odd, Even, Low Numbers (1 to 18) or High Numbers (19 to 36) which pay 1 to 1 (Even Money).
Bets on Dozens and Columns pay 2 to 1
If Zero is the winning number (zero can be bet on exactly the same as any other number) the casino takes half of the amount staked on the Even Money bets and the entire stake on the Column and Dozen bets.
This is the casino's / house's prime advantage on these particular bets.
In the U.K. the house advantage on Roulette varies from 1.35 % on the even chance bets to 2.7 % on layout bets.
On foreign tables using a double zero American wheel the house advantage is much higher than these figures.
Bet
Pays Odds Of
Straight-Up
Split
Corner
Street
Sixline
Column
Dozen
Even Chance
35 to 1
17 to 1
8 to 1
11 to 1
5 to 1
2 to 1
2 to 1
1 to 1
Bets should be placed carefully as shown in the photos below.
If another player's chip is already placed on your chosen layout bet then you should carefully place your chip or chips on top of theirs.
For Even Chance or Column / Dozen bets simply place your chips in the appropriate box next to any chips already placed by other players.
Full size 80cm / 32 inch single zero roulette wheel
American Roulette Layout (Right-handed table)
Straight-Up bet
(number 23)
Pays 35 to 1
Split bet
(numbers 20 & 23)
Pays 17 to 1
Corner bet
(numbers 19, 20, 22 & 23)
Pays 8 to 1
Street bet
(numbers 22, 23 & 24)
Pays 11 to 1
Sixline bet
(numbers 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 & 24)
Pays 5 to 1
