Live roulette is a casino game which derives its name from the French for wheel. It is played on a wheel where one can place bets on a number or a range of numbers, red or black color and odd or even numbers. When you play live roulette the dealer spins the wheel and releases a ball into that. The ball comes to rest on one number when the wheel stops. That determines whether someone has won or not. Live roulette games come in multiple variations, but the basics remain the same. Roulette was first played in France and is now played throughout the world where casinos are legal.

As with other live casino games, a player must register with one of the websites to play live roulette games. After the registration, an initial deposit needs to be made to be able to play. Some websites offer an initial amount as registration bonus, but the payout in these sites is relatively lower. For the real thing, it is better to register with some of the better known websites. The odds are certainly better in these sites.

After entering one of the online rooms for roulette games, a player can place either an inside or an outside bet. Inside bets is better paying where one can bet on a single number, or two adjoining numbers, or three numbers on a single horizontal line, or a square, or a six line or on a trio. Outside bets are lesser paying where the chance of winning is better. One can bet on any of the numbers from 1-12 or 12-36, or red or black colors on the betting table, or even or odd numbers, or dozen (a bet on the first, second or third of the twelve numbers, i.e. 1-12, 13-24 or 25-36) or column (betting on all the 12 numbers on any three vertical lines of the roulette table) bets. The lower the probability of winning, the higher is the payout.

Websites offer various versions of this famous casino game to attract players, live roulette games are popular. At the end of the day when you play live roulette it is still gambling and can make kings or paupers. Unlike some of the card games, live roulette online or offline is completely based on one’s luck because it is absolutely unpredictable as to where the ball will sooner or later come to rest in a slot.

Roulette is quite a simple game once you know how to play it, and generally no matter where you go in the world (or the online world) you won’t find anything differences about the way that it’s played – well, except for one.

There are two main types of roulette; American and European roulette. Both games are played in exactly the same way by spinning a small white ball around a spinning wheel with numbers. The only difference in the game itself is in the variation of the numbers themselves which I’ll go into now.

In European roulette, you the wheel has thirty-seven numbers. The numbers 1 to 36 in either red or black, and the number zero, all on its own in green. The zero on the European roulette wheel gives the casino its house edge, which works out to be 2.7% over the player in this case.

With American roulette, you have thirty-eight slots this time, but still only have the standard numbers between 1 and 36. The other two slots are taken up by the zero and double-zero (00) slots which are both house-edge spots on the wheel. In this case because the casino has twice as many green slots, their house edge is raised to 5.4% over the player which is a huge margin in the long run.

So really that’s it. There isn’t much in the differences between American and European roulette apart from the zeros giving the casino its edge, and now that you know this, you also know to stay away from American roulette tables, right?