Discover roulette through its rules and equipment used in land-based casinos but also on live gaming tables.
Today, roulette is one of the most popular casino games. It is one of the most popular games in the world. It can be played in a land-based establishment as well as on the Internet.
There are even live roulette games filmed in real studios or casinos that allow Internet users to take a seat at a table and play.
The Rules of Roulette
There are different variations of roulette. The main ones are called English roulette, European roulette, and American roulette. All of them use more or less the same rules of the game. The principle is to bet on 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12, or 18 numbers.
If the ivory ball thrown by a croupier into the roulette cylinder comes to rest on a number you have previously bet on, you win your bet. The payout ratio is 35, 17, and 11, 8, 5, 2, or 1 to 1.
Roulette equipment
Roulette is traditionally played on a table. On one side of the table, there is a spinning cylinder with 36 numbered squares in red or black.
There is also a green square marked 0 for English and French roulette and an additional green square marked 00 for American roulette.
There is also a carpet where players can place their chips to place bets of their choice.
Roulette in a land-based casino
Although roulette first appeared in England in the early 18th century, the game was quickly banned in 1739. Little by little, it developed in European countries. However, it is often reserved only for underground gambling dens. Indeed, this game is said to be cursed because when you add up all the roulette numbers, you get 666: the devil’s number.
For roulette to become a classic casino game, it was not until the opening of the mythical Casino de Monte-Carlo in 1842 that the game became popular. Indeed, the famous brothers François and Louis Blanc had the idea of offering this game, which was still little known to the public. This is how roulette began to be a huge success.
Today, it is still offered in most land-based gambling establishments around the world, be it in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Europe, or even Macau for example.
Live roulette games
In the 1990s, when online casinos first appeared, casino roulette was immediately adapted to the Internet. However, at that time, it was only a rather dull and bland game using a random number generator. It wasn’t until the 2000s that the first live tables with real live dealers appeared.
For the past ten years, live roulette has been a huge success on the Internet. There are many different games. Most of them are filmed from studios, but there are also several tables that are run live from real land-based casinos, such as Foxwoods Resorts Casino in the United States, Hippodrome Casino in London, Bad Homburg Casino in Germany, or the Grand Casino in Bucharest, Romania, to name a few.
It is now possible to play online roulette in real casinos without having to travel!
