In the world of casino games, roulette is a classic. In any full service casino in the United States besides blackjack and craps you'll find roulette which is more popular in France where it is historically a cultural part of the gambling scene. Roulette has been played in Europe since the 18th century, and online roulette games are popular now all over the world.Since at least 1796 when it was played in Paris roulette exists in the same form. Multiple games gave birth to roulette. To make a modern roulette game an Italian ball game called "biribi" and another wheel game that involved colors but not numbers were combined. In 1720 in England people began to play "Roly-poly" which consisted of black and white slots. So we can consider roulette a fusion of birib and Roly-poly.Understanding a game is the first step down the road of enjoying a game. And although knowledge of the game won't change your strategy or your chances of winning, it will increase the amount of pleasure you take away from the tables.

Casino is mostly associated with roulette. Roulette is so popular due to its luxury,passion and simple rules. The world 'roulette' means 'a small wheel' in French. It was Blaise Pascal who introduced the primitive version of this game in the 17th century. Later the single zero Roulette appeared. It was introduced by Francois and Louis Blanc. The game wasn't then very popular in France as any form of gambling was considered illegal, but Roulette was well-known in Germany and Hamburg. Later Francois and his son Camille were responsible for bringing the game of Roulette back to southern France for the Prince of Monaco, Charles III. In the 1800s the game of Roulette was introduced to the US public. The improvements were deleted, and a double "00" returned. The game became popular in the old west of America.

Roulette is a wheel game. The wheel of the roulette is spinned on an axis which is placed in a bowl. There are 37 or 38 numbered slots on the wheel, an American roulette wheel contains 38 slots, a European roulette wheel - 37.The numbers are either red or black. The 0 and 00 are considered green.8 players can participate the game at the same time.The rules suggest that the croupier spins the wheel of roulette in one direction and then rolls the ball around the edge of the wheel in the opposite direction.After the ball had fallen at one of the slots and stopped, the croupier announces the winners.You are to guess the number of the slot in which the ball will stop and to make the right bet. Before you start game, you buy chips from the croupier, and roulette chips are almost always different from all other chips in the casino. Each player has chips of his own color that's why the croupier knows who to pay off at the end of each spin. When the croupier announced "No more bets", hlayers cannot make bets.After the ball had stopped,the croupier puts a marker on top of the winning number on the table.The marker is placed on top of the chips, if there are bets on that number. The croupier sweeps off the table all losing bets and after that the winning bets are paid off.
We can find special rules for some casinos.

In Prison/En prison
In case the ball stops at zero slot, the croupier will not collect red/black, odd/even and first half/last half bets, they will stay on the table - in other words they are in prison. In the next spin the players have a chance of winning their original bet back - if their bet wins they will get their original bet back but with no additional win. If it's zero again the bets remain in prison one more time and so on. As this special rule reduced the casinos edge, it's greatly to the advantage for the players.

La Partage
In case the ball stops at zero slot, the croupier will not fully collect red/black, odd/even and first half/last half bets. The croupier will collect only a half of player's bets and will return the rest to the players. As well as the In Prison rule, the La Partage rule also reduces the casinos edge to only 1.35%.

1. Stick to one and the same table. Otherwise the luck will leave you.
2. After you see your favourite number hit three times, change it, and play another for at least five spins to get a change.
3. Gambling is not a good way out if you are in a bad mood. If you go to casino with such a mood, you will only be disappointed because karma will join your mood and you will win nothing. Gambling goes well with a good mood.
4. Avoid fighting with your woman or man at the table because the luck doesn’t like it and it will leave you nearly at once.
5. Everybody has a lucky number, so stick to them.

Today most gambling house odds are set by jurisdictions, and they have to be either 34 to 1 or 35 to 1. It means that the casino pays you or and you save your original bet.
The casino average or house advantage (also called the expected value) is the amount the player loses compared to any bet made. In case if a player bets on one number in the American game there is a possibility of 1/38 that the player wins 35 times, and a 37/38 chance that the player loses.
The green squares on the Roulette wheel and on the table are technically the only house advantage. Outside bets will always lose in case if one or double zero come up. However, the casino also has an advantage on inside bets.
The house advantage should not be mixed up with the hold. The hold is the total amount of money the table takes to change for chips, minus the chips taken away. In other words, the actual "Win" amount for the gambling house. The Casino Control Commission in Atlantic City releases a monthly account showing the win/hold amounts for each gambling house. The average win/hold for double zero wheels is between 21-30%, much more than 5.26%/2.70% of all players money. It is called as "Churning" and is mainly true of slot machine players who statistically end up losing all their bets.
A player with a certain total amount of money can not win or lose all his money very quickly, since the sum of all bets they make will be more than the money they really started with. The house advantage is applied to each bet made. It means the player can end up losing much more than 5.26% of his original money.