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ROULETTE , a gambling See also:game, of See also:French origin. It is one of the two See also:games played in the gambling-rooms at See also: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 See also:chance, though so-called " systems " are innumerable, and some of them for a See also:short See also:period often appear to give the player an See also:advantage. There is no possible See also:system, however, which will assure success in the See also:long-run, and it is herein that the ingenuity of the game consists. Every systematic method of See also:play must depend upon increased stakes to retrieve past losses; and though a player with an unlimited See also:capital might be practically certain to achieve his end in the course of See also:time, the circumstance that there is always a maximum renders the See also:bank invincible. The roulette table, covered with a See also:green See also:cloth, is made up of precisely corresponding halves with a circular space let into the See also:middle holding the See also:wheel, on either See also:side of which the cloth is divided into spaces marked passe, pair, manque, impair, and the See also:black and red diamonds. The wheel is divided into See also:thirty- seven compartments, See also:col- oured alternately black and red, numbered from one to thirty-six, the thirty-seventh being zero. Pair indicates even See also:numbers, impair See also: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 See also:form of a five-See also:franc piece, and not in smaller See also:change. See also:Rouge, noir, See also:ROUND 771 pair, impair, manque and passe are even chances; i.e. a stake put upon any of them is paid in corresponding See also:coin should the player win, the exception being when the little See also:half which is spun round the wheel falls into zero, in which See also:case the even See also:money chances are put "in See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 See also:double-zero, is used. In some gambling-houses there is even a third one, called See also:Eagle See also:Bird. The maximum stake allowed en plein is 18o francs. The next most daring selection is d cheval, when the stake is placed on the See also:line separating any two numbers, and if either of them wins the player is paid seventeen times, the highest stake permissible being 36o francs. Transversale pleine covers any three numbers in a line, the coin or See also:note being placed on the line dividing any one of the numbers from the See also:neighbour• See also:ing even-money chance, as, for instance, between 4 and passe, or 6 and manque. A transversale See also: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 See also:cross between 1, 2, 4, 5, or 28, 29, 31, 32; eight times the value of the stake is paid, and the maximum is 76o francs. The dozens and the columns are also indicated on the board, the first dozen of course including r to 12. In each of the columns are twelve numbers in different See also:order. A stake placed on either a dozen or a See also:column is paid twice its value, the maximum here being 3000 francs. A stake constantly played is called the qualre premiers, which includes zero, 1, 2 and 3, the stake being placed on the line where zero and i join passe, or where zero and 3 join manque. If any one of these four numbers, including zero, wins, the stake is paid eight times; and four times eight being thirty-two, there is a greater advantage to the table than when it loses en plein or on certain other chances. Zero can also be played in See also:combination with any one or two of its neighbours; if with one of them the stake is paid seventeen times, if with two of them eleven times. A croupier sits on either side of the wheel; there is also one at each end of the table, their business being to assist the players in staking and recovering their winnings. Behind each of the former pair an See also:official on a high See also:chair super-vises the table. The croupier whose See also:duty it is to spin the wheel See also:waits for a time till stakes have been made, and then, exclaiming, " Messieurs, faites votre jeu! " sets the See also:cylinder in See also:motion, throwing the ball in the direction contrary to that in which the wheel revolves. When it is seen that the ball will soon fall at See also:rest in one of the compartments of the cylinder the croupier gives the See also:notice, " Rien ne va plus," after which no stakes can be placed. When the ball finally rests in the compartment, the croupier announces the number and the even-money chances that win, as for instance rouge, impair and manque. He and his See also:fellows then gather in with a See also:rake all the money that has been lost, after which the winnings are paid and the game proceeds. At the beginning of play each table is supplied with a certain large sum. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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