American or European? Maybe French?

Which type of roulette is better? American or European? What is the difference? Who cares about the difference? If you have no idea about above written thing, do not worry. We will have some kind of a literacy campaign on this page.

If you decide to play the roulette game, you need to remember that you need to buy different chips at the table, as it is impossible to play with the general casino chips. Also you will have your color of the chips. It is designed in this way, so that no contradictions would appear among the players or between the players and a dealer.

European Roulette

Roulette as a game was invented in Europe. Now we see the direct connection of the name and the game. European roulette has only one zero. It has 37 pockets, where there are 36 black and red numbers and 0 is green. The casinos could not just sit and stare how the players are winning, so they brought green zero to the game. It means that is you wager on colors, you lose, if the ball hits 0. If there was no green color, you would have 50% possibility that the ball would hit your color. But in this case it is lower and the house edge is 2.7%.

American Roulette

Americans are nice people but they cannot stand the fact, if somebody has something good, why can't we have the same and even better? So, the invented double zero roulette. At first sight there is not a big difference but +zero increases the house edge to 5.26% and, correspondently, it brings more money to the house.

Although the American roulette is not widely spread in other countries, except America, it is well played.

Parlez-vous francais?

The French decided to be fairer than others. Why? Because, apparently, lots of them complained on the roulette rules. What are the differences between this kind of roulette and others? First of all, all the numbers are red on the table. They can be also green, as the color of the table. Shortly, the numbers are not marked on the table according to the color. They are black and red on the wheel, though.

Everything is written in French:

Manque: low numbers 1-18

Passe: high numbers 19-36

P-12 (Premiere 12): the first dozen (1-12)

M-12 (Moyenne 12): the middle dozen (13-24)

D-12 (Derniere 12): the last dozen (25-36)

Also it has La Partage rule. Partage means "division" or "partition". We all know that there are odd numbers, like 3, 5, 19, 23, and even numbers, like 2, 4, 10, 20. It appears that 0 is also an even number. But if you bet in American or European roulette on evens, and 0 comes up, you lose your bet. Fair? Not quite. But as I have already told, the French decided to be better than others.

If you bet on evens and 0 comes up, you lose only 50% of your bet. This rule is pretty inspiring as according to it the house edge decreases to .35%.

En Prison (In prison). It is also typical only for French roulette. If you bet on the even numbers and 0 is spun, you have a choice: to lose half your bet and take back the other half or to leave your bet "in prison" for the next spun. The next bet will be all-or-nothing one.