Roulette is one of the easiest game to play and
understand in the casino. If you are looking for a easy to understand
and slow paced table game, then you may like roulette.
A roulette wheel consists of 37 or 38 numbered
slots: numbers 1 to 36, a zero, and in most places in the United
States a double zero. The 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 wheel and a
ball and after several seconds the ball will land in one of the
numbered slots.
One difference between roulette and all other table
games is that roulette chips have no value denomination printed on
them. This actually is the true definition of a chip, one which
indicates its value is technically called a check. The roulette table
comes with six to eight sets of different colored chips, each set
consisting of 300 chips. When a player buys-in they get their own
color and the value would be the buy-in divided by the number of chips
received. The dealer will place a token on top of the dealer's stack
of that color of chips to indicate the value.
To the casual observer it would appear that the
numbers on the 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.
