Roulette Rules

The Rules of Online Roulette are rather easy to learn, but you must be familiar with the roulette rules before placing any bets. The first thing you should know is how the table minimum works. If the table you are playing at has a $5 minimum, you are required to place $5 on each of your outside bets, and/or at least $5 in total on your inside bets (see the Roulette Glossary below). So if you play red, odd, you must place the table minimum for each and every bet. But you could place 5 $1 bets on 5 completely different inside bets.

American Roulette: The Roulette that you will most probablt be more familiar with, this features the double zero wheel. The odds on a single number are 35:1 because of the two zeroes. Which of course means that the house has the advantage over the players. It is strongly advised that you do not play american roulette as there is less chance of winning. But if you just want to have fun, then American Roulette would be the game for you!

European Roulette: Almost exactly the same as American Roulette, except that there is only one zero on the wheel. While this does not seem like a huge change, it actually cuts the house advantage from 5.26% down to 2.63%. This means that the chances of winning is a lot more then that of American Roulette. European Roulette is a slow relaxing, but yet exciting game, which everyone will enjoy to play.

Below is a list of all the possible bets and how you place them on the table. Please bare in mind that it is wise to learn these rules in order for you not to lose money needlessly.

Roulette Glossary

The Outside Bets
An outside bet on a roulette board is simply that the bets are placed 'outside' of the main playing area of 38 numbers. There are no winning outside bets for 0 or 00 results. These are the different types of outside bets:

- Red or Black: you can choose to bet on the ball landing on either being a red or black number. Place this bet right in the area with the words 'red' and 'black' or just the colors red and black. This is a very common form of roulette betting, as it is easy to understand that you have almost half a chance of winning.

- Odd or Even: Even or Odd money bet, as the name depicts is based on whether the number will be odd or even. Since 0 does not count as either, there are 36 numbers, an even count between odd and even. Place this bet by putting your chips in the middle of the square marked 'even' or the square marked 'odd'.

- Low or high: Place this bet if you think the next number to come up will range from 1 to 18, or range from 19 to 36. This is an even money bet. To place this bet put your chips in the boxes with the associated number range printed in them.

- Columns: At one end of the 38 numbers are boxes with the words '2 to 1'. Each box is part of a column of numbers. If one of the numbers within the column come up you are paid 2 to 1.

- Dozens: Very similar to the columns bet, the dozens bet lets you place a bet on either the first dozen numbers (1-12), the second dozen (13-24), or the third dozen (25-36). The Dozens bet pays 2 to 1.

The Inside Bets
The inside bets are made up of specific numbers or combinations of numbers within the number layout. Remember, the total of all of your bets must add up to at least the table minimum bet for that table.

- Straight-up bet: Choose any one of the 38 numbers and put your chips down on that number will give you a chance to win at 35 to 1.

- Split bet: you can place a single bet on two adjacent numbers. To do so put your chips down on the line between them. Pays 17 to 1.

- Street bet: Allows you to bet on three different numbers with the same bet. You can do this by placing chips on the outside of the row of numbers you want to bet on. This bet pays 11 to 1.

- Corner bet: another combination wager, the corner bet lets you bet on four numbers simultaneously. Placing your chips at the point where four numbers meet will indicate you want a corner bet. Pays 8 to 1.

- Five number bet: This is a five number bet which is the only one available. To make this bet place your chips at the intersection of 0 and 1 on the corner. You can win if a 0, 00, 1, 2, or 3 are hit. Pays 6 to 1.