Live Roulette | Classic Casino Table Game of Chance
Roulette is a popular live casino table game where a ball rolls around a wheel and people place bets on which pocket the ball will land on, including the specific number, the color of the pocket, and more. This game owes its popularity to its high potential payouts and accommodating easy-to-win bets that allow both casual gamers and high-rollers to enjoy gaming for real money.
In live roulette tables, many players make up certain strategies to improve their chances of winning even if their payouts are low. Of the different roulette tables available worldwide, the most popular are European tables.
Live Roulette General Rules
Different roulette tables will typically have the same rulesets, even if they’re European and American roulette tables. Most tables will have the same gameplay rules with only a minority having radically varied rules as casinos and gaming providers introduce certain twists to the game.
Basic Live Roulette Rule Differences
The most notable gameplay differences in most tables are the following:
Of the different Dubai7 roulette tables available, the most numerous ones are European tables with French roulette call bets. As such, most gamblers will likely play game variations based on the European table format while also having access to call bets. Besides these, there won’t be much in the way of rule variations and the most common rules they’ll encounter are the following:
Roulette Bets and Payouts
All European roulette tables will have the following bets:
Call Bets
As all roulette tables in Dubai7 are European tables with French roulette call bets, it’s important to understand what they are and what pockets they cover. Call bets are made on the racetrack, separate from the standard table, and cover pockets based on their position in the wheel.
Neighbors
Neighbors is a 5-number bet made by picking a pocket and then automatically covering the two pockets to the left and to the right of the selected pocket. This bet uses five Straight Up bets to cover the five pockets.
Voisins du Zéro
The Voisins du Zéro bet is a bet that covers 0 and the numbers closest to it from within the 22 and 25 range on the racetrack. This bet involves nine chips on the following inside bets:
Jeu Zero
Jeu Zero or Zero Game is a bet that covers 0 and the numbers closest to it from within the 12 and 15 range on the racetrack. This bet involves four chips on the following inside bets:
Tiers du Cylindre
Tiers du Cylindre or Thirds of the Wheel is a bet that covers the numbers opposite the Voisins Du Zéro. The bet involves six chips on the following Split bets:
Orphelins
The Orphelins bet is a bet that covers the numbers between the pockets covered by both Tiers du Cylindre and Voisins du Zéro. The bet involves five chips on the following inside bets:
Roulette Variations
Dubai7 is powered by multiple live gaming providers, but there aren’t a lot of roulette variations available. Most tables offered by different providers are the standard European/French roulette tables. These games include the following:
Lightning Roulette
Evolution’s lineup of Lightning games is well-known for their Lightning multipliers that multiply the gamblers pay out. Only Straight Up bets can be affected by multipliers and only pay out when the number assigned a multiplier is also the winning Straight Up bet that the gambler wagered on. Because of the high potential payout, the payout for Straight Up bets are reduced to 29:1 for the standard Lightning table while XXXTreme Lightning’s payout is further reduced to a mere 19:1.
The max multiplier for Lighting is 500x and 2000x for XXXTreme Lightning.
Speed Roulette
Speed Roulette is a variation using the standard European table format except featuring shorter game rounds. In this game, a single round lasts for 25 seconds.
Mega Roulette
Mega Roulette is a live roulette variation by Pragmatic Play that also features multipliers like Evolution Gaming’s Lightning Roulette. The main difference between the two is the appearance of Mega Bets that work similarly to Call bets except all of them are Straight up bets.
The different Mega Bets are the following:
How to Win at Live Roulette
Winning at live roulette is pretty simple, unless when players want to win big using Straight Up bets. The easiest way to win is by sticking to one of the even money bets. The most popular by far is the Red or Black bets that give players a fairly 50/50 chance of winning their even money bets, as long as the table only has one green zero, which means sticking to European Roulette tables.
Players can formulate certain strategies to increase their chances of winning more money than when sticking to even money bets. These strategies, however, involve placing multiple inside and outside bets to cover as many pockets as possible while severely reducing the total potential payout. To mitigate this and ensure that gamblers will win as much money as possible, they’ll need to stake as much money as possible so having a substantial bankroll is necessary.
Some of the strategies that players can use to increase their chances of winning at the cost of reducing their total payout are the following:
666 Roulette Strategy
This roulette system is an aggressive system that requires players to have a substantial bankroll to be able to stake a total of 66 units. The potential payouts for this system are 72 units for the even money bet, 68 units for the Split bets, and 70 units on the Straight Up bets. The bets necessary for this system are the following:
A total of 36 units are used for the Red bet, 24 units on the Split bets, and 6 units on the Straight Up bets
24+8 Roulette Strategy
The 24+8 roulette system is a slow strategy that’s meant to reduce the player’s chances of losing by covering a total of 34 pockets. The main point of this strategy is to break even when not winning a Straight Up bet and winning real money when they do. Because there are only three outcomes, players should expect little in winnings and more instances of breaking even as the potential payout is only worth 36 units.
The necessary bets for this system are the following:
A total of 30 units is spent in this system and the only profit is 6 units per winning Straight Up bet. As such, this is a terrible system to use for players who want to make a profit since 30-unit losses can’t be effectively recouped by the 6-unit and the break evens from the dozens bets.
Players, however, can take advantage of this system when playing Lightning or Mega Roulette when the payout is multiplied by a multiplier.
Other Strategies
Other people can use more simplistic strategies, including using only the Flat Betting Strategy on an even money bet, using Martingale, Reverse Martingale, Paroli, and other betting systems on even money bets. Others still can use other strategies like staking 10 units on odd and 5 units on Straight Up bets on 10 even numbers for either a 5-unit or a 20-unit profit respectively.
Conclusion
Live roulette is an extremely popular casino game that is fairly easy to win in but hard to make a substantial profit from. Gamblers who believe that a win is a win will have minimal issues with this game but those who want to really make a profit can find it frustrating to do so. Big wins require either having significant bankrolls or getting lucky with a single Straight Up bet which have odds of 36:1 when sticking with European Roulette.
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