Mobile Roulette Guide

Roulette is one of the most popular table games in a casino, due in part to it’s simplicity and easy to understand rules. The game of chance is said to have started in 1745, with it’s name derived from the old French, literally meaning ‘little wheel’. The object of the game is to place your chips on the winning number or series of numbers that correspond to a spin of a roulette wheel. It is possible to bet on a single number, range of numbers, or choose between red or black, even or odd, in order to win. In the casino, the game is played with a marble, which the croupier will drop onto the spinning wheel, players may continue to place bets until the croupier calls “no more bets.” When the marble stops in a slot on the roulette wheel, the croupier calls the number and awards the winnings to the players who chose correctly. Mobile roulette operates in a similar manner; only the software’s random number generator acts as the croupier.

How to Play Roulette

As a player, you must determine where to place your chips based on the odds of winning. There is no pattern strategy for roulette. If you have read otherwise, then you are being misled. Mobile roulette works on an algorithm that is specifically designed to use a random number generator. The program is set-up to ensure there is no pattern that you can wager on and be right 100% of the time. As at offline casinos, you can play the probabilities based on the numbers on the table that correspond to the wheel. Betting on even/odd or red/black is a 1:1 probability, which pays 1 coin for every coin you wagered on that bet. However, unlike flipping a coin, where theoretically the chances of it landing on any side are 50% of the time, the house edge is improved in Roulette via the introduction of the single zero or double zero in American Roulette. This means the odds against winning on even/odd or red/black are 19 to 18 in the house’s favour for French Roulette, and even greater in the favour of the house for American Roulette.

To play roulette online or at a mobile casino players simply chose the value of the chip, and place it on the table, corresponding to the type of bet and let the mobile software do the rest.

Different Game Types

There are several versions of roulette available on mobile devices. As stated above, the main types are French and American Roulette. The difference between the two wheels is the number of numbers on the wheel and thus the table. A French wheel has a single zero on the wheel, which is always green. If the marble lands on zero, unless a player has bet on zero, all outside bets are lost. The American wheel has a single and a double zero. The double zero was added to improve the house edge for land based casinos when the game was first brought to America.

Other options include variations of French and American roulette such as multi wheel roulette, pro roulette, European roulette, roulette with bonus games, multi ball roulette, and live dealer roulette.

Tips and Strategies

You want to win playing roulette right? But how can you when it is all up to the wheel? You have to decide how much risk you are willing to take, which means you have to understand the odds of winning betting on one number versus playing the various types of bets, which are categorized as inside and outside bets. On an American roulette wheel there are 38 pockets, where 36 numbers can be played. On the French wheel, there are 37 numbers, of which you can only wager on 36.

For inside bets you can play straight, split, street, corner, six line, trio, basket, and top line.
Outside bets are 1-18, 19-36, red/black, even/odd, dozen, column and snake.

The reality with both online and land-based roulette the odds are heavily stacked in the houses favour and as Albert Einstein famously said: "No one can win at roulette unless he steals money from the table while the croupier isn't looking."

Key Glossary of Terms

Straight: a single number, where the chip is dead center on the number.
Split: is a wager on the line between two numbers, hedging that one or the other number will win.
Street: you bet three on a horizontal line.
Corner: you place the chip on a corner of four numbers.
Six line: you bet two adjoining streets.
Trio: is a bet on 0, 1, and 2 or 0, 2, and 3- where the line intersects these three.
Basket: is a wager on 0, 1, and 2; 0, 00, and 2; 00, 2, and 3, where the line intersects the three numbers.
Top Line: a bet on 0, 00, 1, 2, and 3 or the corner of 0, 1, 00, and 3.
1 to 18: is those numbers only as 19 to 36 is only the higher numbers.
Dozen: the first 1-12, 13-24, or 25-36.
Column: the vertical lines of 12 numbers.
Snake: is a special dozen bet 1, 5, 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 23, 27, 30, 32, and 34.