October 21st, 2008 by admin

The American roulette wheel has numbers from 1 to 36 with alternate black and red numbers. So in all there are 18 black numbers and 18 red numbers. Then there are green numbers too which are zero 0 and double zero 00. Thus, making 38 numbered pockets in all.  The French wheels have a single zero and thus their layout also has a single zero. So there are 37 pockets with 36 numbers and one single zero. A French styles roulette table has layouts on the either side or wheel in the centre where as an American table has wheel on one side and the layout on the other side of the table. Most casinos have American style wheels and French styled wheels are mostly found in casinos in Monte Carlo. The sequence of numbers is different in both types of wheels. As the odds are more in favor of a player in the French wheel than American wheel, it is a better wheel for players to play on. In a roulette wheel, the numbers seem to look very randomly placed to anyone. The truth is that the numbers are distributed such that sum of number of one section should roughly be equal to any other section consisting of same number pockets. Most numbers are a part of pair and have a single number between them. The total of the numbers which are a pair either comes to be 37 or 39.