If you have always played American roulette and never European roulette then you do not know what you are missing. With American roulette there is 38 numbered slots on the roulette wheel and with European roulette there is only 37. Roulette is very common in both America and Europe but is by far more popular and more often played in casinos found throughout Europe. The main reason that roulette has found more popularity in Europe than in the United States is because of the difference in roulette rules. When it comes to European roulette the house edge is approximately half of what can be achieved when playing American roulette. This discrepancy in rules for roulette makes a tremendous amount of difference to participants of the game.

European roulette is a game of chance and probability that makes use of a European roulette wheel as well as a betting system. A ball is placed into a wheel that is numbered and while the wheel spins in one direction the ball goes in the other direction. The bet played by participants in the game of European roulette is that once it finally stops spinning around the wheel, the ball will land on a specific number. If you bet on the correct number you win and if you bet on the wrong number then you lose.

The game of European roulette is based on a prediction of what number the ball will finally come to rest on. The wheel contains pockets and each pocket is numbered from 0 to 36 and these pockets are either red in color or black in color. It goes without saying that in European roulette, the winning number is the pocket that contains the ball when it stops moving. Bets by players are placed on the grid that is corresponding and the bets can either be multiple or single bets.

The rules of European roulette are very basic and anyone could easily pick them up relatively quickly. Place your bets on European roulette and then wait for the dealer to spin the ball in the wheel. Watch the ball spin around and if the ball lands on the number you have bet on then you are a winner at European roulette. How much a player wins does not depend on whether or not he is a European roulette vip or not but rather on the kind of bet he placed for the European roulette game.

Bets for European roulette are broken down into inside bets and outside bets. The inside bets for European roulette come with higher odds while the outside bets have odds that are lower. The bets are placed in relation to the kind of numbers and quantities of numbers that are a part of the betting grid and that the European roulette participant made a part of his bet. If a player chooses to bet only that the ball will land on a specific number then it is referred to as a straight bet and the odds thus become very high, such as 35 to 1 (35:1). The more numbers a player of European roulette includes in his bet, the lower will his odds of winning be.