One zero. The familiar starting point.

European
Roulette.

Thirty-six numbers, one green zero and a table full of ways to place a chip. Learn this version first and the others become much easier to compare.

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Pockets: 37
Ordinary house edge: 2.70%
Straight-up profit: 35:1

What makes it European?

A European wheel has numbers 1 to 36 and a single zero. Red and black each cover 18 numbers; zero belongs to neither colour. That extra pocket is why a bet on red is slightly less likely to win than a coin toss.

A winning single-number bet pays 35 times the stake in profit, plus the original stake back. With 37 possible results, the payout leaves the casino an average advantage of 1/37, or about 2.70%, on ordinary bets.

Try this at the table

Place one small chip on a number, then a chip on red. Watch how the two bets cover different amounts of the wheel. A number bet wins less often and pays more; red wins more often and pays less.

The racetrack is another way to place chips on neighbours around the wheel. Those neighbours are usually not next to each other on the numbered table. It changes your selection, not the probability of each pocket.

Check the zero rule

Ordinary European roulette takes the full red/black stake when zero wins. A table offering La Partage handles that result differently. The number of pockets alone does not tell you whether the extra rule is present.

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See the rules
in action.

Open the table here. Choose a chip, place a bet and explore the game’s own help before you spin.