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ROULETTE , a gambling game, of French origin. It is one of the two games played in the gambling-rooms at Monte Carlo, and the description here given, and the maximum and minimum stakes mentioned, are to be understood as applying to the game as it is there conducted. It is solely a game of chance, though so-called " systems " are innumerable, and some of them for a short period often appear to give the player an advantage. There is no possible system
in the long -run, and it is herein that the ingenuity of the gameconsists. Every systematic method of play must depend upon increased stakes to retrieve past losses; and though a player with an unlimited capital might be practically certain toachieve his end in the course of time, the circumstance that there is always a maximum renders the bank invincible. The roulette table, covered with a green cloth
corresponding halves with a circular space let into the middle holding the wheel, on either side of which the cloth
spaces marked passe, pair, manque, impair, and the black and red diamonds. The wheel is divided into thirty- seven compartments, col- oured alternately black and red, numbered from one to thirty-six, the thirty-seventh being zero. Pair indicates even numbers, impair odd numbers, manque includes the numbers from 1 to 18; passe, from r9 to 36. The methods of staking are innumerable. The minimum stake is five francs, which must be placed on the table in the form of a five-franc piece, and not in smaller change . Rouge
ROUND 771 pair, impair, manque and passe are even chances; i.e. a stake put upon any of them is paid in corresponding coin should the player win, the exception being when the little half which is spun round the wheel falls into zero, in which case the even money chances are put "in prison "that is to say., laid aside until another spin, when if the bank wins they are lost, if the player wins he is allowed to retrieve his money,. The maximum in the case of these chances is 6000 francs, Any one who desires to play en plein puts his stake on one of the thirty-seven numbers. If the ball falls into the corresponding number on the wheel, the stake is paid thirty-five times; and as there are thirty-seven numbers on the board, with the advantage already described of imprisoning the even-money chances when zero comes up, it will be seen that there is a steady percentage in favour of the tables and consequently against the player. This percentage is of course greatly increased when, as is often the case, a second zero, called double
neighbour ing even-money chance, as, for instance, between 4 and passe, or 6 and manque. A transversale simple covers six numbers, as, for example, where the line between 4 and 7 joins passe, or between 6 and 9 joins manque; and if any one of these numbers wins, five times the value of the stake is paid, the maximum here being 1200 francs. En carve includes four numbers, the coin being placed, for instance, on the cross
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supply it is said to be " broken."End of Article: ROULETTE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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