Roulette is a popular game at the casino especially in Europe due to the smaller edge the casino generally enjoys. A casino will usually have several roulette tables offering different minimum bets. A typical table will look something like this.

The game is very simple to learn and because of this is often the first game a person new to a casino will try and possibly also due to the fact it has been featured in numerous films in the past adding to it‘s allure. It is an exciting and fun game to play but if you want to win consistently it is not easy and usually it is nigh on impossible using purely legal means.

Casinos in the past have been known to rig their wheels to further increase the casinos advantage. Fortunately due to more rigorous gaming laws in most countries this is far less prevalent than in the past. However the odds of winning are still considerably in the favour of the casinos.

The reason that roulette is the most popular casino game in Europe is due to the fact European wheels have 37 numbers and only one “0” whereas most US wheels have 38 numbers with a “0” and a “00”. This means that European casino have a statistical edge of 2.7% and US casinos have an edge of roughly 5.3%. This edge may be halved depending on whether the “en prison” rule is in use. Fortunately there has been a trend in US casinos to install wheels with only one zero to try and increase the popularity of the games, added to this an increase in maximum table limits has allowed players using a variety of betting strategies to have more of a chance of beating the casino.