The word roulette is derived from the French saying “little wheel”. An early version of Roulette was first established in the 17th century by a French mathematician named Blaise Pascal. In 1842 a single zero was added to the game by Francois and Louis Blanc and launched in Hamburg, Germany, due to its illegality within France at that period in history.
Francois Blanc initially introduced the game to Monte Carlo and established the first casino there. As the legend is known, Francois negotiated with the devil to acquire the secrets of the roulette wheel, and apparently if you add all the numbers on the board together, it totals 666, “the number of the beast”.
The game was introduced to the USA in the early 19th century, where a second zero was added, increasing the casino house odds. And there stands the game that is loved and played in the four corners of the globe today.
Rules of Roulette
The Roulette wheel owns numbers from 1 to 36, with a “0” and usually “00”, although the vast majority of USA casinos have the “0” and “00”. The version with the single “0” is widely acknowledged as the most interesting. The zeros are colored green, while the numbers are alternately colored red and black.
Single or combination bets with a mixture of long odds to evens are placed on the varying numbers and colors upon the corresponding points of the table. Players can make as many bets as they wish, in any order.
Once the bets have been placed on the table, the dealer spins the wheel and rolls the ball in the opposite direction of the spinning wheel. Bets can be placed until the ball is ready to leave the track and fall into the wheel, at which point the dealer will call “no more bets”.
Once the ball falls into the number of its choice, the dealer will place markers on the table to notify the numbers and colors of the winning bets.
