In this article I will be going over some ways that you can increase your odds in roulette – which can actually be done – however this isn’t a way to increase your odds so much that they’re actually better than the casino. That is extremely hard to do without cheating.

When it comes to casino games, Roulette has one of the highest odds of you losing and the casino taking away your money. This is because of the naughty little 0 slot on the roulette wheel in European roulette, as well as the 00 slot which appears in American roulette.

Because of these numbers, the casino has a 2.7% edge over you in European roulette and a massive 5.4% edge over you in American roulette. In simple terms, this means that for every $100 bet on any roulette table anywhere in the world, the casino will make $2.70 in European roulette and $5.40 in American roulette. This may not initially sound like a lot, however when you consider that literally millions of dollars can be spent in a single casino in one day, it sure adds up – for the casino that is.

So the first tip I have for you is to never, and I mean never, place a bet on an American roulette table. You are doubling your odds of losing if you do. If you’re not sure of how to spot the difference in an American and European roulette tables, just look for the green slots in the wheel. An American wheel will have two green slots numbered 0 and 00, while a European roulette wheel will only have one green slot numbered 0. This is what you need to look for.

My next piece of advice is to never ever bet on single numbers. While you can make a lot more money if you win a bet placed on a single number as it will pay out 36-to-1 (meaning a $1 bet will win $36), the odds of this happening are are 37-to-1 when you take into account the zero, which means on average you will win only once every 37 spins.

You should be betting mathematically and strategically, an never betting on ‘feelings’. Just because you have a ‘feeling’ the number 24 is going to come up on the next spin, doesn’t mean that it will. Most likely, it won’t and you will have thrown the bet away.

Always bet on large sections of the board like the red or black sections, or on thirds of the board, This will enable you to cover huge chunks of the numbers without betting on them individually. And when you do this, stick to one section and continually bet on that section without stopping. Casinos rely on people jumping from one place to another betting with their ‘feelings’ in order to take their money, so this is what we must not do.

Other than this, there is nothing really that can swing the odds in your favour except all-out cheating, or by checking out the guide on my website. I guarantee you that it’s about the only mathematically proven way out there to do this.

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?

I’ve already gone over the basics of roulette in a previous article, but in this one I’m going to go into a lot more depth as to the exact chances and percentages of winning with roulette.

When thinking in terms of a roulette wheel and the chances of winning, most people only calculate their percentage of winning without taking the zero (or zeros as is the case with American roulette) into account. Although it might appear as only a slight factor, it does make a heck of a difference in the long run, which is what casinos rely on to make their money.

Let’s take for example if you were to place a bet on red, which would cover half of all the standard numbers on the board. If we don’t consider the zero, your odds would be 50% of either winning or losing. The law of averages states that you should win 1 out of every 2 spins, or 50 out of every hundred.

But when we do take the zero into account, the odds start to change quite a lot more.

To calculate the casino’s average from the zero, we take 100 (which represents 100%) and divide it by 37 (the number of slots on the roulette wheel including the zero). This gives us a figure of 2.7, which means that the chance of the ball lancing on a zero (or any other single number for that matter) is 2.7%.

This doesn’t sound like much now, but in the long run it adds up in the casino’s favour and this is what we’ll look at next.

So we’ll take our bet on red again and scrutinize that again. But this time instead of having 50% odds of winning, we must take into account the 2.7% edge the casino has with the zero slot. We do this by subtracting the 2.7% from 100% and we are left with 97.3%. Now that we have the real chance of the ball landing on any of the coloured spaces, we can divide that by two to give us the real odds of the ball landing on a red slot, which gives us a figure of 48.65%.

So as before you had a 50% chance of winning or losing, you now only have a 48.65% chance of winning and a 51.35% chance of losing.

To show you what this means in the long run, let’s say that a person bets 10,000 consecutive times on a roulette wheel with a $1 bet each time on red, they will only win 4,865 of thise times, and the casino will take their money 5,135 times, meaning that no matter where they bet, the casino will always some out on top. It always has the advantage, which is called the casino’s ‘house edge’.

I have just explained this with a simple red-or-black bet, but the odds are in the casino’s favour no matter which way you look at it. This is the inherent fact that makes casinos money machines, wired only to take the money from the people and not to give it away.

Sure it’s possible to have a lucky streak, but normally that’s exactly what it is; luck. There are very few ways out there that don’t involve cheating to give you an edge over the casino and when you do find one, they’re generally very guarded secrets.