Roulette Rules
Playing roulette is a simple enterprise, and is hardly any more confusing than the slot machine: place a bet, dealer spins, and if the ball lands within where you banked your chips in, you win. Despite playing with statistics with the employment of certain hard-written strategies, roulette (assuming that the table is not rigged) is almost completely a game of chance.
The only technicalities to consider are the placing of bets; the smaller the probability that the ball will land where you predicted, the greater the payoff. There are several options of where to place your bet, suggesting that roulette is a game possibly played by several people at a time. You can lay down your chips on either red or black; these are two of the three possible colors where the ball can land (green, the third color, is for the house). You can also attempt to predict (and of course, bet on) whether the ball will land on numbers 1-18 or 19-36 collectively, or even if the ball will land either on an odd or even number. These bets, however, are usually for the more cautious (admittedly, though, being so has its merits).
Remember that in the world of roulette, the probability of winning is inversely proportional with the payoff when you DO win. It is possible to bet on a single number, which, when successful, will pay 35 times your original bet. Such a bet is on the very end of this probability spectrum; those in between are options like betting on a two numbers at once (odds of 17 to 1), betting on a dozen numbers at once (2 to 1) and so on.
The En Prison rule, which applies only when the bet is an even number, comes into effect when the ball lands on the green. The player has the option of withdrawing half of the original bet, or leaving it for another spin. This roulette rule is enforced only at the discretion of the casino.
Simple, yes? Now you know the rules of this centuries-old game. Place your bet. All chips in?