Roulette instruction and tutorial

Roulette instruction

 

There are 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.

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 (1-12), middle (13-24) or high (25-36) pays 2:1

Even bet

A bet on even or odd, red or black, low (1-18) or high (19-36) 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 38-number American wheel, the house has a big 5.26 percent edge. (Whenever 0 or 00 are hit, all bets lose.)

With the 37-number 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.

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