Roulette instruction

Play European Roulette for a great advantage! Unlike American, European Roulette only has one zero! This makes you 2.7% more likely to hit the jackpot payout. The best part is, European and American Roulette are both comped the same, giving European Roulette proportionately more comps for each dollar wagered.

online roulette is just like playing roulette at any casino where they play roulette gambling. Roulette online is played under the same rules as anywhere they play roulette black jack poker or craps. There are however two versions of roulette which are popular, the single "0" version, and the double "00" version, one is known as the American roulette wheel and the other is the European roulette wheel.
Which brings me to a little history on the meaning of the word roulette. the word roulette in Latin literally means "little wheel". Just thought I'd throw that bit of roulette information in for the trivia minded.
I have heard many of those that gamble roulette online and in land based casinos, say they have a "roulette system". Personally, I have not played the game to the extent that I can say I have ever run into a roulette strategy, or roulette scheme; that was any better than just common sense gambling. I have seen or heard of many roulette strategies or schemes that were much worse than common sense gambling. I suspect that a roulette gambler can save themselves a lot of heartache by remembering that a roulette wheel is a game of chance, that when playing a game of chance; there is little a gambler, be it when playing roulette or the slots; that they can do to change the outcome that will inevitably happen.

roulette tutorial begins with:

HOW TO BET
These are the bets you can place and their corresponding payouts:

Straight bet: A bet on a single number pays 35:1
Split bet: A bet on 2 adjacent numbers pays 17:1
Street bet: A bet on 3 numbers on a horizontal line pays 11:1
Corner bet: A bet on a block of 4 numbers pays 8:1
Line bet: A bet on 6 numbers in 2 adjacent rows pays 5:1
Column bet: A bet on 1 of 3 vertical columns pays 2:1
Dozen bet: A bet on 12 numbers, low (112), middle (1324) or high (2536) pays 2:1
Even bet: A bet on even or odd, red or black, low (118) or high (1936) pays 1:1
You can place as many bets as you like on a single spin of the wheel up to the table maximum.

Some casinos use a rule called en prison. When a zero or double zero hits, the player loses half the bet, or can let the bet remain in play, with the results to be determined on the next spin. This rule only applies to even money bets.

Odds

With the 38number American wheel, the house has a big 5.26 percent edge. (Whenever 0 or 00 are hit, all bets lose.)

With the 37number European wheel, the house advantage is 2.7 percent. In other words, on every $100 bet the house makes $2.70. With the en prison rule, this edge drops to just 1.35 percent.

Obviously you want to look for casinos that offer the European, single zero wheel and many online casinos do. If you can find one that also offers en prison, so much the better.

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Payoff
In a winning hand, opening bets are always paid out at even money. Raise bets are paid out based on the spread as follows:

Spread	Payout
1	5:1
2	4:1
3	2:1
4 through 11	1:1

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Why casinos pay

Please note these words taken from the first chapter of "How to beat the web casinos" by Bill Haywood. "....if they decide to keep your money, they can. It has happened more than once." but he goes on to point out: "...... Ecasinos pay winnings because of self interest. Their checks clear for the same reason that nickel bags contain heroin and not baking powder: to keep people coming back."

Though this book has become somewhat outdated; what he says is true. What he leaves out is that there is a certain point where the sleazier of Ecasinos will no longer pay winnings. And that point is often relevant to the size of a player you have proven to be. Example: if you have been a regular depositor of $25 a month for the past 5 months ; and you hit a jackpot for $15,000; it is unlikely that the casino will ever see enough money back from you... to make it a sensible business decision to pay you.

And so they do not pay.

There are a few exceptions to this rule. And that is where my elite list of casinos, come into play. Some casinos are so big and so lucrative, that they would rather pay even the smallest gambler the largest of payouts than risk a bad word said about their casino.