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Since you know that you are going to go into the casino to play Roulette you should also know that you should at least be aware of what the Roulette Wheel is going to look like and what it consists of. The standard American Roulette Wheel is made up of 38 exactly identical slots also known as pockets. These slots are numbered from 1 to 36 along with a single zero slot and a double zero slot. The numbers are not on the wheel in order, and they aren’t just put on the wheel in a random matter. The goal of the wheel is to place each and every number in balance between black-red, odd-even and high-low. There are usually two even numbers in a pair that alternate with two odd numbers paired. Red and Black alternate as well on the wheel. Most of the numbers on the board are a part of a pair with one number in between them. If you added up these pairs they would usually equal either thirty-seven or thirty-nine. While most of the numbers on the Roulette Wheel are Red or Black the single zero and the double zero are both green. All of the numbers on the Roulette Wheel face outwards so that all of the players can read them easily. One thing that you should know is that the wheel is absolutely perfectly balanced. If it wasn’t the game could be called unfair, but casinos test the wheels all the time to make sure that they are in perfect working order. This is to be sure that each number on the wheel has the exact same chances to come up. You need to make sure that you know all of this before you go into the casino to start playing so that you can be sure that you are as well informed as all of the other players are. When the game is going to begin all players place their bets on the table and the croupier starts the Roulette Wheel spinning in one direction and tosses the ball in another direction, soon the ball will slow down and stop in a numbered, colored slot. Whoever has bet on that number will win. The fact that the wheel is practically perfect has a lot to do with the outcome of the game. If the wheel was off center by the tiniest amount one number could be favored to come up more often than any others which is how some people cheat at the game. In every casino across the world that offers Roulette all of the wheels are kept in perfect shape, if one comes up defective it is immediately taken out of the casino to be replaced with a brand new one. |