Roulette casino Betting Systems
There are a huge number of the Roulette casino betting systems currently being hawked on the World Wide Web or through gambling related newsgroups. Some of them are being sold as cheaply as $10 (and by a Roulette casino). Other Roulette casino betting systems cost a bit more. One bold system is being offered for $15,000 to the first ten lucky buyers. Only ten will be sold! (Incidentally, no one has bitten at this particular offer yet).

Most of these systems offer basic instruction on working the Labouchere betting progression or some variation of it. Some address biases. Some are so confusing I am not quite sure what they are trying to say.

Either way, this is all you need to know: they don't work.

The great Albert Einstein was quoted as saying, "The only way to beat Roulette is to steal the money when the dealer's not looking." In a sense, he was correct. His point was that there is no way to employ some mathematical configuration of bets to overcome the house edge. Absolutely true.

If you're playing at a roulette casino, do so for fun and entertainmnet. Don't go out and buy a roulette casino system.

House Edge at a Roulette Casino

The house average or house edge (also called the expected value) is the amount the player loses relative to a bet, on average. If a player bets on a single number in the American game there is a probability of 1/38 that the player receives 36 times the bet (35 times the bet plus the return of the bet itself), so the house ends up, on average, with a 5.26% edge on each bet.For European roulette the house edge is cut in half, to 2.7%

The house has the same edge on all of the other kinds of bets, except for the five number bet where the house edge is considerably higher (7.89% on an American wheel).

This hose edge makes it kind of hard to win at a roulette casino. Luckily, if you play online at commodore casino, you get a 15-150% signup bonus. Basicaly, this means that if you're making deposits of $200 or more, you can expect to win money over the long haul.

Famous Bets Made at a Roulette Casino

• In 2005, the Howard Stern Show went to Las Vegas and a part of the trip included Artie Lange facing a female pitcher. There was a monetary prize and there was to be one at bat: the monetary prize was to be awarded to Artie if he got a hit or the female pitcher if she struck him out. In the event of a walk the at bat would be done over. There was a condition that if Artie won the challenge he had to put the entire prize (several thousand dollars) on either red or black in roulette. He won the challenge and decided to put the money on black. The wheel was spun and the ball stopped on green.
  
• In 2004, Ashley Revell of London sold all of his possessions, clothing included, and brought US$135,300 to the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas and put it all on "Red" at the roulette table in a double-or-nothing bet. The ball landed on "Red 7" and Revell walked away with his net-worth doubled to $270,600.
  
• In the music video for Palace & Main by Kent, guitarist Harri Mänty goes to Las Vegas and bets the entire video budget on black. He wins, and the profits were donated to charity.
  
• In the 1942 film Casablanca, Rick's Café Americain has a trick roulette wheel. The croupier can cause it to land on 22 at will. Rick (Humphrey Bogart) urges a Bulgarian refugee with whose case he becomes sympathetic to put his last three chips on 22 and motions to the croupier to let him win. After the man's number dramatically comes up, Rick tells him to let it all ride on 22 and lets him win again. Although the details are not mentioned in the film (the croupier only notes that they are "a couple of thousand" down), it appears that Rick has given the man 3675 (3*35*35) francs.
  
• In the third part of the 1998 film Run, Lola, Run, Lola uses all her money to buy a 100-mark chip. (She is actually just short of 100 marks, but gains the sympathy of a casino employee who gives her the chip for what money she has.) She bets her single chip on 20 and wins. She lets her winnings ride on 20 and wins again, making her total winnings 129,600 marks (29,600 more then she needed).

Actually winning money playing at a Roulette Casino...
Unless you're extroardinary lucky, you can't win money playing roulette at a land casino. The house has an edge of 2.7-5.4%. You can't beat that. The cool thing about online gambling is that the overhead of the casinos is so small that they can afford to lose money one many of their players. It's much better odds than the casinos in Vegas. In order to win money playing roulette, you need to play at the Commodore casino Roulette Casino and take advantage of their bonuses. As an example: here is how to win $150.00.

It takes a bit of work, but it doesn't take any luck...

* Download and install FREE Commodore Casino software.
* Open the software and click on "Play for Real Money".
* Select "Create Account".
* Make your first deposit and they will instantly credit your account with up to an additional $200.00!
* Make $6,000 worth of bets 15 * [deposit + bonus]
* Cash out (you will probably have $350 worth of chips left - for a net win of $150!

A brief history of the Roulette Casino
Legend tells about François Blanc, who supposedly bargained with the devil to obtain the secrets of roulette. The legend is based on the fact that if you add up all the numbers on the roulette wheel (from 1 to 36), the resulting total is "666", which is the "Number of the Beast" and represents the devil. Maybe that's why we keep losing, but I digress....

The first form of roulette was devised in 17th century France. This roulette wheel was made by the mathematician Blaise Pascal, who was supposedly inspired by a fascination with perpetual motion devices. The problem was, that the first Roulette Casino didn't have the "0" in it. Well,, it was great for the players, not so great for the roulette casino. Without the "0", the house doesn't have an edge, and the roulette casino can't make any money. The roulette casino thoght this was terrible and had to do something about it...

Two Frenchmen François and Louis Blanc added the "0" to the roulette wheel. In the early 1800s, roulette was brought into the U.S. where, to further increase house odds, a second zero, "00", was introduced. (In some forms of early American roulette the double-zero was replaced by an American Eagle.) I guess the 2.7% house edge wasn't enough for the American Roulette Casino. In the 1800s, roulette spread all over both Europe and the U.S., becoming one of the most famous and most popular casino games. Some call roulette the "King of Casino Games", probably because it was associated with the glamour of the casinos in Monte Carlo. (François Blanc actually established the first casinos there).

Two Ways to Play at a Roulette Casino...
There are two versions of roulette played online: American and European. The difference between the two is the number of 0's on the wheel. American online roulette wheels have two "0's", zero and double-zero, which increase the house advantage to 5.3%. In European online roulette , there is only one zero, giving the house an advantage of 2.7%. This means that, in the long run, one loses money twice as fast playing American Roulette Casino than European roulette. Never play at a Roulette Casino that has a wheel with two zero's.

Roulette Casino Bets
Here's a list of common bets that people make at a Roulette Casino:

• Straight: a single number. The chip is placed entirely on this square and no other.intersection of these numbers.
• Sixline (or 'sixaine'): a bet on two adjoining streets, with the chip placed at the corresponding intersection (as in 25-30).
• Column: a bet on all 12 numbers on any of the three vertical lines (such as 1-4-7-10 on down to 34). The chip is placed on the space below the final number in this string.
• Street: a bet on three numbers on a single horizontal line. The chip is placed on the edge of the number at the left or the right, depending on the layout.
• Corner (or square): a bet on four numbers in a square layout (as in 11-12-14-15). The chip is placed at the horizontal and vertical
• Split: a bet on two adjoining numbers, either on the vertical or horizontal (as in 14-17 or 8-9). The chip is placed on the edge between these numbers.