By Samantha Williams

Your guess is as good as anybody’s where the ball falls, when you are roulette gambling at a casino – this is a completely random number game. It is not a simple task to predict which number pocket that ball will fall into, and this is what makes the game so exciting. This and the multitude of bets which can be placed, black, red, individual numbers, splits and divides of numbers, below certain sets of number, above certain sets of numbers, inside, outside, odds, evens and so on.

It is the amount of bets on roulette gambling which makes players believe a strategy will work to make profits, and while this may be true and skill counts. It is luck which is the deciding factor when playing this game. The best players are those with intuitive instinct while others really complicate matters with mathematical calculations and trying to beat the house odds.

What this game is all about however is having fun and as winning means you have more fun it is important to understand that following certain rules and procedures can contribute to winning.

Roulette gambling is a modern casino game, with the oldest history. The word roulette means “little wheel” in French and although wheel based games date back to Ancient Rome and China, this particular games was invented in 17th Century France by mathematician, scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal. It is a romantic game with a romantic and colorful history. It is said that he sold his soul to the Devil for the secret of roulette. However I prefer to believe he was clever enough to invent it without interference or help.

Roulette gambling flourished in Europe and was eventually introduced to Monaco where it became a smash hit. The Monte Carlo gambling Mecca was created with roulette as its foundation, and brothers’ Francois and Louis Blanc are credited with writing roulette into the history books with their modern version of the game. They built a wheel for King Charles III of Monaco and added a single “0” for the house edge. The rest as they say is history.

Thanks to technology, the same game that was played by Charles III and his court is still played today and roulette gambling can be brought into anyone’s home, thanks to online casinos.

The adding of that single “0” to the wheel created a house edge which made this game a winning proposition for any casino. This is still the case and any strategy which says you can beat the house edge is wrong. You quite simply can’t and to beat the house edge in American Roulette is even more difficult as this wheel has two “house” pockets the “0” and the “00”.

This doesn’t mean to say that people don’t win when they play roulette, what it means to say is that the casino is assured of their percentage of the profit, and that’s just the way the ball falls!