How To Play Roulette Online

A Simple Casino Table Game, But Hard to Master

Learning how to play roulette online or in a land-based casino is pretty simple, it’s an easy game to bet on, but not an easy one to master. Although you don’t need to know the mathematics of the game to start playing, it helps to be able to tell the odds and payouts available to you.

Thank-fully, Roulette games are so popular, you’ll have no problems finding a version of it to play in any mobile casino out there.

Here we’ve gone through the basics of how to play roulette, what to look for and the terms you’ll need to learn before you place a bet.

The Basics of Roulette

The layout of mobile Roulette tables will all be fairly similar. You’ll get a wheel with numbers of 1 to 36, alternating between red and black. European Roulette will have one green zero and American Roulette will have two green zeros.

Next to this wheel is a table. The table will have several betting options, the primary of which is the numbers 1 to 36. The target of the game is to guess on which of the 36 numbers the little white ball will fall on. If it falls on zero, the house takes all.

You can bet on red or black, a single number or a group of numbers.

First Things First: Mobile Roulette Payouts

We wouldn’t say that calculating the payout of a roulette table is easy. It depends on your skill base. Or at least one half of this writing team like to thinks so. It’s the same half who is frantically using a calculator to figure out what the other half means by “well yeah, it’s obvious isn’t it?”.

Doesn’t help? Yeah, one half of the writing team didn’t think so either.

In plain English and using the simplest example – let’s say you bet on red. You know, I know, you have more or less, 50/50 chance of getting a red number (ignoring that zero for a moment). So for these calculations, it’s one of the easiest to figure out.

There are 18 red slots on the wheel. So ‘n’ becomes 18. (36 – 18) / 18 = 1. So basically a red/black bet pays 1 to 1.

If you make a square bet (four numbers) the formula is (36 – 4) / 4 = 8 and you’ll get 8 to 1 on your wager.

What are the odds of mobile Roulette?

Formulas aside, the odds on Roulette games are not incredibly complicated. You have numbers 0 to 36. So every number, theoretically, should show up once every 37 times (counting the Zero don’t forget).

However, every time you hit a number, the odds change as that number should not hit again (it can do, but roll with it for now), so actually the odds are now 36 – to – 1, which is the payoff for hitting one number.

Two number spreads are 17-to-1, four-number spread 8-to-1 and red or black 1-to-1. If you are good, you can learn to limit your losses by spreading your odds across several bets.

Enough with the odds – Roulette betting options explained

Remember how we mentioned in ‘What is the Best Roulette Table‘ about why we prefer European Roulette over American Roulette? Because the European version has a better player edge?

Unfortunately we cannot move away from the odds because Roulette is all about odds. But we can give you these odds in advance so you can see for yourself which bet is the best one to place for your expected return. Equally, we can explain what each of those bets are on the table.

So what are your betting options on roulette games? Below we’ve listed the type of bets and the odds of hitting that bet on the two most popular wheels found in mobile casinos. Simply click each title to expand and see the odds:

So now you know the odds of playing mobile roulette, but are you ready to start playing? If so press here to view our list of mobile casinos where you can play mobile roulette online.

Want to know more? Then our Roulette Strategy session is for you.

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