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The Roulette Wheel
Albert Einstein is alleged to have said, "You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it."
The roulette wheel is the center of attention in this casino game. The roulette wheel, with all its mystical allure and history is a relatively simple device. The wheel has 38 (depending on the game) pockets alternately colored red and black that spins one way while a small ball spins the other. Eventually the ball lands in one of the pockets and the winners cheer while the losers sulk.
Roulette wheels come in two flavors, American and European. The American roulette wheel has two green pockets numbered 0 and 00 and pockets numbered 1 to 36. The European roulette wheel has only one 0 pocket and pockets numbered 1 to 36.
As a result the European games have odds that favor the player and the American roulette games have a better advantage for the house. Play European games if you can find them.
If you look closely at the design of the wheel, directly across the wheel from each odd number is the next highest even number. Even numbers are black and odd numbers are red.
In 2004, Ashley Revell of London, England sold everything he owned, including his clothes and took all his money, $135,300 to a casino in Las Vegas and put the whole thing on red at a roulette table. Lucky for him, the roulette ball landed on red 7 and before he knew it he had doubled his money.
It’s not essential to know a lot about the roulette wheel to play the game, but it's fun to learn this sort of thing for games of trivia.
Roulette In The Movies
The roulette wheel has played an integral part of a number of movies. In a movie entitled “Run, Lola, Run”, the main character must win at the roulette wheel for a happy ending. In one scene, desperate to win, Lola arrives at the casino in street clothes and makes here way to the roulette table surrounded by people dressed in fancy evening clothes.
In the film, Indecent Proposal, two young people in love lose everything at the roulette wheel. No other casino games provide the same level of anticipation and excitement to climatic points in a film.
Roulette In Books
Roulette is a common element in hundreds of works of literature. In Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth roulette is the books opening. In Dostoevsky’s The Gambler, roulette is also used as an opener to the short story. As one of the more exciting casino games it lends itself well to stories of struggle. Roulette is often found in “Cinderalla” stories and just as many “prince to pauper” stories. In the end we all learn the same thing – don’t bet everything you have on a spin of the roulette wheel.
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