In roulette, you need to speculate where the ball will stop after each spin. It's luck to a large degree. You play against the house, and the croupier, the dealer, stands for the house. The croupier spins the roulette wheel in addition to handling the bets and payouts. European and French roulette versions have a roulette wheel with 37 slots representing 36 numbers and a zero. In America , most roulette wheels have two zeros and as a result have 38 slots.

Play procedure

•  Begin playing roulette by placing your bet or bets on numbers. After everyone placed their bets, the dealer launches the ball. Select any number including the zero in the table layout, or outside the table layout.

•  When it is about to drop over the slots, you will hear the croupier shout 'no more bets'. All the while the ball is spinning around players can still place bets.

•  The dealer places the dolly on the winning number on the roulette table, then clears the table of all the losing bets and pays the winners.

•  Roulette winners are the players whose roulette bets are on or around the number that comes up.

The house advantage
In table European and French roulette versions the house advantage is 2.7%. On a two-zeros American roulette table) it is 5.26% (7.9% on the five-number bet, 0-00-1-2-3).

The 'En Prison' rule
When the result is zero, some casinos allow the players to take back half their bet or to leave their bet for another roulette spin. It is called 'en prison' meaning in prison. In a different case, if the following spin, the outcome is again zero, then the entire bet is lost.

The ' La Partage' rule
The 'la partage' roulette rule is similar to the en prison rule, only in this situation the player loses half their bet.

The payouts
A bet placed on one number only in roulette is called a straight-up bet, and it pays 35 to 1. In other words, you collect 36. When there is no house advantage, you should collect 37 (and 38 in on double zero roulette wheels- USA ).