Roulette is one of the most popular games played at the casino; both traditional land based as well as the now ever more popular online casino. In most European casinos, a wheel with a single zero is offered. Betting on this means that the odds against any single number coming up on the next spin are 1 in 37 (36-1), since the pockets for the ball to land in run from 1 to 36 and also include 0.
The game of Roulette originated in France and the modern day layout we find in the casino today was first introduced around 1842, so as we can see it is a very old form of gambling on a numbers wheel. In common with this type of game the object is to pick the wining number, or there are other options, for example you can choose a colour, odds or evens, a combination of numbers, but of course the odds differ.
To understand better the table layout has two betting areas, inside and outside. The inside betting area contains the individual numbers on the layout. The outside betting area has boxes for the columns, red/black and odd/even and different groups of numbers.
The outside bets are any of the bets made in the boxes surrounding the numbers.
Red Black Odd and Even are all even money bets. You place your chips in the boxes on the layout.
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