The History Of
Roulette
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Roulette is one of the
simplest, if not the
simplest, casino games.
Roulette is actually among
the favorite games of
offline and online casino
players. Roulette is also
very addictive because of
the jackpots that players
have been able to win even
though the win is based on
chance. This is the same
reason why roulette is also
called a game of chance.
Roulette, a French word,
literally means "little
wheel." Roulette is so
called because of the way
this casino game is played.
You have to spin the wheel
until the ball starts
rolling in the opposite
direction. When the wheel
stops spinning and the ball
stops spinning, the winner
can now be determined.
The first roulette game was
actually invented in the
18th century. However, there
was a primitive form of
roulette in the 17th
century. This was created by
Blaise Pascal when he was
researching a perpetual
motion machine. The roulette
we see today was a mixture
of different table games in
England, Italy and France.
This was played earlier in
Paris in 1796. A book
published in 1801 called La
Roulette, ou le Jour,
written by Jaques Lablee,
described the game simply as
having house pockets and
with two betting spaces
containing two numbers, a
double zero and a zero. In
fact, the wheel used in
roulette played in Paris was
red in the single zero slot
and black in the double zero
slot. The green color of the
zeros was chosen in the 19th
century.
In 1843, Frenchmen Louis and
François Blanc introduced
the game of roulette with
one zero in the casino city
of Homburg, Germany. The
goal was to compete with
other casinos that offer
traditional roulette, ie
with a double zero. This was
now known as the European
version of roulette. There
was another version which is
the American version. In
1886, Americans played
roulette with the numbers
one through twenty-eight as
well as a single zero and a
double zero. However, there
was another home pocket -
the American Eagle. This was
a symbol of American freedom
but the goal of adding
another slot was to increase
the house edge. Because it
did not live up to social
acceptance, it eventually
disappeared. Today, we only
have less than a dozen
roulette games, most of
which sell for over a
hundred thousand dollars.
In the 19th century,
roulette was slowly
spreading across Europe and
the United States until it
became the most popular
casino game of all time. In
the 1860s, gambling was
abolished in Germany, which
required the Blancs to move
to another location where
casino games remained legal.
This was in Monte Carlo
where a gambling Mecca for
those in Europe was built.
Single zero roulette has
become one of the most
prominent casino games in
this part of the world as it
has spread to the rest of
the world except for the
United States where it has
not been able to overthrow
the dominance of double zero
roulette. Due to the
prominence of roulette in
every casino during that
period, it has been called
the “king of casino games”.
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