November 11th, 2008 by admin

In roulette, a player can place many different bets. The player can place the betting chips on the betting table which has all the characteristics of bet marked on it. There are outside bets and inside bets. The inside bets are placed on the inner part of the table and payouts are higher here. Betting on a single number is a Straight bet and chip is placed on the number. It has the lowest odds of all the best and hence the payout is 35 to 1. When a player places a bet on two numbers it means two adjacent numbers, either horizontal or vertical. This bet is called Split and the chip is placed between the two adjoining numbers. The payout here is 17:1. You can place bet on three neighboring numbers, Street bets. If the ball lands in any one of the numbers, you can win that bet with the payout of 11:1. Four number bets have a payout of 8 to 1 and are called corner or square bets. The chips are placed on the horizontal or vertical intersection of lines. The five number bets have payout of 6 to 1. Passé means betting on the last eighteen numbers. The six line bets are bets on two adjoining streets. For this a player can place the chips at the intersection of two streets on the layout. Several casinos use different colored chips for inside bets to distinguish them from other bets. The roulette chips are different from other chips used in casino games. These chips do not have any denomination printed on them. On the roulette table there are six to eight colored chips with each set having 300 chips. Every player who buys-in gets a single color. On the stack of chips of one player the dealer puts token on top indicating the value. After a win the winner can exchange the chips with the cash chips. These special chips have value imprinted on them. You take this to the exchange and get cash.