Online casino roulette - famous game of chance

Roulette is one of the most played games at casinos nowadays. It was named after the French diminutive word which means "little wheel." In this game there is variety of numbers for making bets of red and black colors. It is possible to do on both even and odd numbers. To find out the winning number the dealer has to spin the roulette wheel in one direction and the ball in the opposite around the circular track. The ball eventually falls into one of 37 pockets in European roulette and into one of 38 slots in American game.

Nowadays Roulette is one of the best online casino games popular all over the world. Every casino willing to create a new live roulette site to deliver all types of this game to gamlers. However, before acquiring the features of the modern game, it had passed through the long history of development.

History

The prototype of the first roulette was designed in France in the 18th century. Pascal Blaise introduced the wheel for a primitive roulette in the 17th century. Basically, he was looking for a perpetual motion machine. However, the game is considered to be the fusion of some English games like Ace of Hearts, Roly-Poly. So, the game has been played since 1796 in Paris.

It is significant that the single zero style roulette was first introduced in Germany at a spa land casino with the intention to compete with the traditional roulette games with single or double zero house slots and casinos that offered such.

Some American gambling books, however, registered some forms of the first American roulette wheels. They had numbers 1 through 28 with a single zero or a double zero, and American eagle, which is known to be the symbol of liberty in the USA. The latter was the house slot for the casino extra edge. However, the tradition disappeared, and the numbered slots were used.

Distribution of the game

Later on, the game was spread all over the USA and Europe being one of the favorite gambling games. The creation of Monte Carlo first roulette halls belonged to the family of the Blanca. They moved from Germany and established legal casinos. Just in here the single zero roulette game became the elite game and was promoted further on to the whole world. In the USA the single zero wheel remained the dominant. That is why it is possible to call this gambling game the king of the casino games. More likely it is due to the associations with the glamorous casinos first opened in Monte Carlo.

In the USA, the double zero was used in order to increase the house edge of the casino and lower the player's chances to win.

During the first part of the 20th century, then only recognizable roulette hall were of Monte Carlo, where the traditional roulette was played. In the USA, the most solid casinos with roulette halls were based in Las Vegas.

Nowadays there are a lot of various land casinos and online casinos that offer the classical roulette games.

Myth

There is a legend concerning Francois Blanc and the roulette wheel. He is suspected to own the devil powers to obtain the roulette secrets. The most interesting is that the myth is based on the sum of all roulette numbers - 666, that is known to be devilish (The Beast Number).