Roulette rules
Roulette is a typical gambling casinos, whose name comes from the French term roulette, which means small wheel. Its use as an element of gambling, even in settings other than the current, is not documented well into the Middle Ages.
Presumably, his oldest reference is called Wheel of Fortune, of which there are news throughout history in virtually all fields of human knowledge.
The “magic” of the movement of the wheels had to impact all generations. The apparent stillness of the center, the speed increase as we move away from him the possibility to stop at a random point, all this had to influence the development of different games that have the wheel base.
The wheels, spinners and by extension, have always had connection with the magic and esoteric. Thus, one part of the Tarot, more precisely known as the arcana.
According to the evidence, the creation of a roulette game and its rules very similar to those we know today, is due to Blaise Pascal, who invented a wheel with 36 numbers (without zero), which lies a extreme balance of the position in which each number is placed. The choice of 36 numbers gives further scope linked to the magic (the sum of the first 36 numbers gives the magic number for Excellence: 666).
This wheel could be used as entertainment circles of friends. However, at the enterprise level that puts the resources and personnel for the entertainment of their customers was not profitable, because statistically they bet everything that was distributed in prize money (ratio of 36/36).
In the late nineteenth century, the brothers Roulette Blanc modified by adding a new number, 0, and initially introduced in the Monte Carlo Casino. This is the roulette we know, with a share of prizes of 1 / 37, which leaves room for the house of 2.7%.
Later, in some spinners (especially those used in Anglo-Saxon countries), a new number (double zero), so that the benefit to the casino is double (2 / 38 or 5.26%).
Roulette or cylinders
The order in which numbers appear in the plate is determined by some simple rules:
* On each side of a number less than or equal to 18 there are two numbers greater than 18, with two exceptions: a) zero, b) directly in front of him with 5 to 10.
* The black numbers are those in which the reduction in the sum of its digits is even, minus 10 (black) and 29 (black). Another exception is the 19 (red).
* Assuming the plate in half, with an imaginary line between 0 and 5 in each of the halves must have the same amount of numbers belonging to each of the 3 dozen (6 issues) and the same amount of numbers belonging to each of the 3 columns (6 issues).
* The red and blacks should be alternated.
Over time, the spinner was modernized, and today there are electronic or electromechanical, composed of sensors that detect the exact position of the ball, sensors that detect the correct direction of rotation of the plate, sensors that detect the position or reference 0 (zero), and besides this, have a sensor with an electronic trigger more. Programmable methods in these spinners are shutter speed of the ball, speed of the platter, sound settings, video settings, configurations and maximum bets jackpots, and some models have a separate test, to test the system plate (fires, sensational and reads the ball). Basically all electronic roulette system is a computer. A host CPU controls the entire system of the plate and in turn controls each satellite CPU (each table bettor).
In this game of roulette is located at the end of a table, covered it with a rug, originally dark green but usually use a whole range of colors (green, burgundy, navy). This table has a number of boxes to make the bets. These are normally shaped tokens, exchangeable for money.
The rugs and spinners are different, depending on whether you are a single zero or two zeros. The double zero roulette wheels are called American roulette, which plays a maximum of 8 people, each with a color sheets, and lay their cards themselves, which at the end of the play are removed by the dealer hand. The French or European roulette is the one that has a single zero, and place cards ‘value’ of the casino. Usually croupiers are placed by customers and removed with a rake.
Bola
It is an area of white or ivory, about two inches in diameter. Formerly used ivory, but today are Teflon.
The way to interact with the roulette ball is as follows: the croupier throws the ball inside a highlight of the dish, so that the ball highlight tour of the wood, while pushing the inner plate in the opposite direction. By losing speed, the ball falls and falls into one of the boxes corresponding to a number. That’s the winner.
Betting and payments
Multiple bets are possible during a play, with payments proportional to the amount of numbers for each card are covered and the number they played, with the following table:
Electronic roulette
Are widespread in the game rooms, and are not considered truly random, since, depending on the money you lost or gained the machine, it can send the ball to either sector, though not to a specific number .
The machines in the game rooms have no mechanism to expel the ball from the number or place the ball in any particular box. The only mechanisms that are: an air blower, which pushes the ball at different speeds at random, using a sophisticated mechanism to vary the strength of the blow (in the most advanced have eight different pulse rates), moreover, have different speeds Drawing of the dish (also eight) also have different times of the game, from start betting until they close with the classic does not go with what they play with three variables that, combined, give a great randomness like scratch cards.
Another thing is that they are treated as gaming machines, which must give a minimum percentage of awards regulated by law, and this is achieved with the boats or mysteries, which is a direct award given by the machine where the roulette is winning more money than allowed. In that and only that, they differ from the casino, in addition to the maximum bet that in the halls are governed by the maximum prize permitted.
