How to play American Roulette

How to play guide

You decide where you think the ball will land by choosing a number or numbers from 0-36 on the Roulette wheel. Each number is either red or black, except zero which is green. Placing your bet on the equivalent number on the table, the Dealer spins a ball around the revolving wheel. It eventually comes to rest in one of the compartments and that compartment holds the winning number. The Dealer will show this on the table layout by placing a marker on the winning number.

 

You can place bets on the following options

  • Even Chances - Red, Black, Odds, Evens, High, Low – pays 1 - 1
  • Dozens - 1 to 12, 13 to 24, 25 to 36 - pays 2 - 1
  • Columns - 1st, 2nd, 3rd - pays 2 – 1
  • Single Numbers (called straight ups) - 1,2,3,4 etc. - pays 35 - 1
  • Splits - A chip placed between adjacent numbers- pays 17 - 1
  • A Street - A strip of three numbers - pays 11- 1
  • Corners - The corner of four numbers - pays 8 - 1
  • Six-Lines - Strips of six numbers - pays 5 - 1

If the ball doesn’t land on your number in the Roulette wheel, you lose your bet to the House. If the winning number is zero all stakes on the even chance bets will lose half of the stake to the House.

Tips & advice

The basics:

Generally, you will be given different coloured chips to play with. These make it easier for both the Players and the Dealer to see whose chips are whose.

On the tables you will see an oval track which consists of the wheel numbers in order. This is for the Dealer to place ‘Neighbour bets’: a 5 piece wager covering 5 adjacent numbers, two either side of the number you called. For example, for ‘Zero’ the neighbours will cover 3, 26, 32 and 15 as well as 0. If one of these is a winning number the Dealer will place one of the 5 pieces on to that number.