Place your bets: an online roulette betting guide

Get your chips ready everyone. It is time to learn how to play online roulette! Roulette is a simple enough gambling game to play. This is the real wheel of fortune where winning or losing is all determined by the spin of the roulette wheel. Although online roulette is already just an electronic version of actual casino roulette games, the essentials of the game remain the same.

The roulette wheel contains the numbers 0 to 36 (although some tables contain an additional “00”) arranged in a standard non-sequential order as alternating black and red slots. Once the wheel starts spinning, a marble-sized ball is also spun, opposite the direction of the wheel, which will eventually land on one of the slots thus determining the winning number. With online roulette, the only difference is that it is actually a programmed random number generator that picks the lucky number.
 

Before winning in roulette, you first purchase betting chips through your account. You must then place your chips on a virtual roulette table marked with the same numbers on the wheel. The numbers are arranged as three columns and grouped into 3 sets of 12 – the first dozen, second dozen and third dozen. The layout in casino roulette is mostly the same for the online version.

Playing online roulette is just like in real casinos. You can bet on single numbers or groups of adjacent numbers which are called inside bets. You can also bet on outside bets; these are number columns, groups of dozens, whether the number is odd or even, or whether it is red or black. Each bet category on online roulette corresponds to a different payout, from 1:1 up to a high of 35:1. Generally speaking the more numbers you bet on, the more chances you have of winning.