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Roulette Strategies
The
math behind roulette is simple, but it also has some of the
worst odds in casino gaming. American roulette gives the house
an edge of 5.26% for every bet except one. The other bet gives
an even worse house edge of 7.29%.
There is a little
known rule called ‘surrender’ in some casinos. If this rule is
in place (ask at the table before you play) you're as close as
you're going to get to using any roulette strategies.
The surrender rule applies only to outside bets that
pay even money, such as red/black, even/odd, and high/low.
With the surrender rule, ff the ball lands on 0 or 00 (double
zero) you only lose half of your bet instead of all of it. The
casinos edge then drops to about 2.63% in this case, and that
is about as good as it gets as far as roulette strategies.
The numbers:
Advantage = [18/38 x 1] + [18/38
x (-1)] + [2/38 x (-0.5)]
= -1/38
= -0.0263
or a
house edge of 2.63%
Another one of the well known
roulette strategies is to look for wheels that don’t have a
double zero. European roulette wheels typically don't have a
double zero, but American tables almost always have it, as it
increases the house edge. In that case, your best bet is to
look for a wheel with no double zero in the online casinos, as
well as those in real American casinos.
Roulette
Rules
Roulette is one of the easiest casino games
to play and understand in the gambling casino. A
roulette wheel consists of 37 or 38 numbered slots: numbered 1
to 36, a zero, and in most places in the United States a
double zero. The roulette betting layout consists of every
individual number as well as a host of "outside" or
combinations of numbers. After the players make their bets the
dealer spins the roulette wheel and a ball and after several
seconds the ball will land in one of the numbered
slots.
| United States Rules |
| Bet |
Pays |
Probability |
| Red |
1:1 |
47.37% |
| Black |
1:1 |
47.37% |
| Odd |
1:1 |
47.37% |
| Even |
1:1 |
47.37% |
| 1 to
18 |
1:1 |
47.37% |
| 19 to
36 |
1:1 |
47.37% |
| 1 to
12 |
2:1 |
31.58% |
| 13 to
24 |
2:1 |
31.58% |
| 25 to
36 |
2:1 |
31.58% |
| Any
column |
2:1 |
31.58% |
| Any one
number |
35:1 |
2.63% |
| Two number
combination |
17:1 |
5.26% |
| Three number
combination |
11:1 |
7.89% |
| Four number
combination |
8:1 |
10.53% |
| Six number
combination |
5:1 |
15.79% |
| 0,00,1,2,3
combination |
6:1 |
13.16% |
As mentioned above, most roulette wheels in
the United States have both a zero and a double zero. These
double zero roulette games have a house edge on every bet of
1/19, or 5.26%, except the 0-00-1-2-3 combination which has a
house edge of 3/38 or 7.89%.
The numbers on the roulette wheel
It would appear that the numbers on the roulette wheel
are not organized, and seem to be distributed randomly. The
only obvious patterns are that red and black numbers alternate
and that usually two odd numbers alternate with two even
numbers. However, the distribution of numbers was carefully
arranged so that the sum of the numbers for any given section
of the wheel would be roughly equal to any other section of
equal size. In particular the numbers are usually organized in
pairs, with one number in between, and whose sum is either 37
or 39. This is true of all of the following pairs: (10,29),
(25,12), (29,8), (12,19), (8,31), (19,18), (31,6), (18,21),
(6,33), (21,16), (33,4), (16,23), (4,35), (23,14), (35,2),
(9,30), (26,11), (30,7), (7,32), (20,17), (32,5), (17,22),
(5,34), (22,15), (34,3), (15,24), (3,36), (24,13), (36,1). The
only numbers that fall outside this pattern are
27,14,2,28,11,13, and 1.
*The
following online casinos are highly reputable, and we
recommend them for trying out our roulette strategies, whether
you want to play for free/fun, or if you want to play for real
money. Good luck!
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