Roulette Wheel
One thing you ought to do, if you are serious about enjoying roulette,
is to take a good long hard look at the roulette wheel. It is amazing
the amount of people who wade straight in with a bet without really
understanding the layout of the wheel and how it might affect the
outcome of the game.
The roulette wheel seems straight forward enough, but study it for a
little longer and you´ll start to notice some interesting things.
There are two main types: the European roulette wheel and the American
wheel.
Numbers 1 to 36 are split evenly among red and black "pockets", these
being the slots that the roulette ball may fall in to. There are also
either 1 or 2 green pockets, that are labelled with the number 0 or
double 0 "00" on the roulette wheel.
A close inspection shows that the numbers are not randomly distributed, but then neither are they arranged sequentially.
There is some order there, but does this affect the overall outcome?
Not if you remember that each and every roulette wheel spin is an
individual event and cannot be influenced by events preceding or coming
after it.
There is a balance between red and black, high and low, and odd and
even numbers to even the numbers and 50-50 bets across the wheel. For
every odd number you see on the wheel, directly opposite it is the next
highest even number. Black and red numbers are alternate, and pairs of
even pockets alternate with pairs of odd pockets (with the exception to
this being 0 and 00, obviously).
The roulette wheel is always spun anticlockwise by the roulette
croupier (in the case of a land based casino) or by the roulette
software (in the case of an online casino roulette). Note you can also play Live Roulette
with real croupiers online with webcams. The roulette ball is
released which scoots along a track that runs across the top of the
wheel cavity.
The wheel powers the ball around through friction and gives it just the
right amount of centrifugal force to run along the vertical side of the
wheel. As the wheel loses momentum, so does the ball which then comes
off the track and bounces over the pockets turbulently until it settles
into a pocket. There are many small humps and bumps that ensures that
the ball is randomly jigged around before it finally comes to a rest in
what you hope is the pocket that you just laid a massive bet on!
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