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Roulette is one of the world’s most popular casino games. Ever glamorous, ever sophisticated it is played by millionaires in the elite gambling Mecca of Monte Carlo, and super-cool fictional heroes such as James Bond.
The game of roulette was first devised in France in the 18th century and is the combination of a number of contemporary games from France, Great Britain and Italy. The name roulette comes from the French meaning ‘a little wheel’.
Traditionally, the most famous places for casinos, and thus roulette, were Monte Carlo in Europe and Las Vegas in the US, but in the last few decades casinos have spread across the world, taking the game of roulette with them.
Two different versions of roulette developed in Las Vegas and Monte Carlo, with the US preferring the double zero wheel and Europe the traditional single zero French wheel. The American double zero wheel can also be found in casinos in the Caribbean and South America as well as the United States.
The basic rules of roulette are that the player bets on the colour black or red, a single number or a multiple of numbers and whether the number is even or odd. Once all the bets have been taken a croupier, or dealer, spins the wheel one way and a ball in the opposite direction around the edge of the wheel. The ball spins around the wheel until it stops and falls into one of the coloured and numbered pockets; 37 in the European version of roulette, and 38 in the American version.
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