How to Play Roulette in Different Casino Countries
For tourists who want to spend a leisurely evening in an English or European casino and not tax their brains. I advise playing Australian style roulette. But treat French roulette. Which abounds in European and English casinos? as if it were fly paper and you were a fat. Sluggish fly.
The percentages for Australian-style roulette are much better for the player in England than in most other world gambling centers. In Nevada, for example, "0" and "00" on the roulette table layouts increase the percentage for the club. But in England and in many European casinos. only "0" appears on the layout; the "00" has been eliminated. This practically cuts the percentage against the player in half, because most roulette wheels have thirty-eight numbers (1 to 36, plus 0 and 00). With the "00" gone. you have thirty-seven numbers, but you are paid the same odds (35 to 1) as if you were playing with thirty-eight numbers. There is one less number (00) on which you can lose your bet.
Advantages to Play Roulette
There is another important advantage in playing Australian-style roulette. Many players like to make wagers that pay even money if the right numeral or color shows. These "even money" bets include "odd" or "even," "red" or "black." and numbers "1 to 15" or "19 to 36." In many other gambling centers. such as Nevada. the Caribbean, or the Bahamas. if the "0" or "00" shows on even money bets, the casino takes all your bet. But in many European casinos, the club only takes half your bet or puts your chips in prison and gives you another chance.
These extra bonuses on roulette odds fit right along with the parentage advantages English casinos give in 21 and craps. Some of you cynics must be wondering why our jolly English neighbors are being so generous. It's simple. English casinos are trying to capture a bigger share of the global tourist gambling trade by advertising England as the best place in the world to gamble. But they aren't being completely honest. You don't hear foreign casinos announcing that some of their games, such as French roulette, aren't such bargains.
Australian Casino Gambler
Even if you're an experienced Australian gambler, stay away from French roulette unless you have a photographic memory, can fluently speak the language where you are playing, and aren't afraid to raise hell in the middle of the most sedate casino.
Here's why. In Australian roulette, the dealers give you a chip colored differently from other players' chips when you buy in to play the casino game. The chip color you get is yours as long as you are playing, and there cannot be any mistake as to who gets paid when a number is hit. If you have a red chip with a green dot in the middle and you put that chip on number 6, and 6 hits, there is no confusion about who owns the chip.
But in French roulette tournament, many players generally will get the same color chip. This leads to problems, especially for the poor bumbling Australian in a foreign country, equipped with only his vest-pocket dictionary and the half-dozen words he remembers from some high school language course.
For tourists who want to spend a leisurely evening in an English or European 