What is Live Roulette

Andrew Fullard - 23/03/2008

Roulette, traditionally played in casinos, is a very exciting gambling game and being a game of luck, it doesn't require any special skill to play. Roulette in French means, "small wheel", the history suggests that this game was started in the 17th century by Blaise Pascal, the French scientist. Live Roulette as the name suggests, is Roulette played live either online or on Television. There is a live show, live presenters, and a real roulette wheel which is 'Casino Certified'.

To get started, one needs to register online. After registering, funds have to be deposited and every new player gets 100% free bonus in many cases, up to £100 maximum. Generally, the minimum that one has to deposit is somewhere in between £20 to £50. After the registration is done, one can play with any of the live roulette shows, being broadcasted regularly.

In the game of live roulette, a wheel is spun by a croupier, in one direction and then in its opposite direction, he spins a ball around a circular tilted surface, which runs about the wheel's circumference. Eventually the ball falls into one of the 38 or 37 numbered and colored pockets on the wheel, the number of slots depend up on whether it's an American roulette or a European roulette. In American roulette, there are 38 identical slots in the standard roulette wheel, numbered individually from 0, 00, and 1 up to 36. In total, the betting layout is represented by 38 numbers. On the roulette wheel the arrangement of the numbers is not consecutive. By design, the numbers alternate between black and red and are in a position opposite to one another, 00 is opposite to 0, 1 is opposite to 2, and so on. Likewise, number 35 is directly opposite to 36 and all black numbers are opposite to the red numbers. In European roulette wheel there is a single 0 instead of 0and 00, hence making the number of slots 37. The ball is rolled by the croupier and as the wheel turns, it starts to lose momentum and in the end, it bounces over the slots and finally drops into one of these.

In Live roulette, one can also enjoy without risking one's money. A registered player has the option of free play mode to try out his/her chance first. In this, 500 free chips are given to play, with which one can try more than once and finally become a paid player.