American Roulette

February 7, 2008

As online gambling grows, bettors are starting to realize the disadvantage of American roulette over the European version. The normal variation occurs when there is an extra 0 added to the table.

Roulette is one of the most popular games played in both land based and online casinos. The key to look for though is that both land based casino roulette and online casino roulette are played in two different variations, that can make the game confusing if you don’t know which version you are playing and what odds you are getting. Although European roulette came first, American roulette is very popular at online casino sites that cater to a mostly American customer base.

As far as roulette history, the game was originally invented in France, and only after becoming a popular European game did it make its way over to the United States, and naturally it was here that American roulette was born. The American wheel differs from the European version because of an extra slot for the house edge is in the roulette wheel. The roulette tables in American roulette are also smaller, but this makes little difference when playing the game.

The wheel for American roulette is numbered 1- 36, and alternately colored red and black with the number 1 starting as red. In both versions of casino roulette there is another green slot numbered with a single 0 and colored green, but in the American version there is an added green slot which is numbered 00. This extra slot lowers your odds significantly.

The extra green slot in American online casino roulette seems like nothing, but actually changes the game dramatically. In the American version of roulette the added 00 increases the house edge to 5.3 percent from the 2.7 percent in the European version of the game.

While every online casino is different, American roulette generally use only non value style chips, which means that a person buys colored chips of all one monetary value. The trick is used to keep the players bets separated, but many online casinos continue to do so to make online casino roulette more like the brick and mortar version of roulette.

When you are looking for an online casino to play roulette at, you are going to want to make sure that you choose a casino that uses European style or single zero roulette. You will get better odds and add some enjoyment over American roulette casinos.

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