Roulette Rules
Once upon a time, to play a game like roulette, you had to go to a live casino. If you lived in the U.S., this meant a special trip to Las Vegas or Atlantic City. Now, thanks to the Internet, everyone has a casino in his own home.
All you have to do is log on to an online casino site, download the software and you're ready to go! (Please note that due to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, many online casinos may not cater to U.S. players, although current interpretation of the law is that it is not illegal to play at the ones that do. CasinoTop10 has listed the best US casino rooms, still accepting us players)
If roulette is your game, you're in luck, because roulette is carried by a great many online casinos. If you think roulette may be your game, but you don't know how to play, or aren't sure how it would work online, read on. The roulette rules are very simple.
When you click on the roulette link at your online casino site, you'll be taken to a virtual roulette table. The layout will show numbers from 1-36 as well as 0 and in American roulette, 00. The numbers alternate between red and black. The layout will also be ringed with side bets, with boxes for the first half of the board, the second half, the first, second or third, odd or even, red or black and any column. This setup allows you to bet on almost any collection of numbers.
To play, just drag the amount you want to bet on the number or group where you want to place your bet. The roulette rules are basically all about the roulette odds and placing your bets accordingly. Depending on the level of risk you are willing to take, the higher you get paid off.
In addition to the bets mentioned above, you can bet on two numbers by putting chips in between adjoining numbers, four by putting chips in the center of four boxes, or six by putting chips between two numbers and on the border, indicating the entire line. Spin the wheel, and if your number, color, type of number or group comes up, you win! It's as easy as that.
Players are paid off according to the odds of your number coming up without 0 or 00 taken into consideration. For example, if you bet on a single number, the odds of that one number out of the 36 coming up on the same roll would be 35-to-1, so you are paid off at 35 times the amount of your bet if you win. The house edge is that your true odds are slightly longer than that, since the spin could also land on 0 or 00. If you win a bet on red, black, odd or even, you are paid at even money (0 and 00 have no color or type) and so on.
That's all you need to know to play online roulette. Have fun and good luck!