Hi, my name's Martin here at Claremonts.com. What I'm gonna do,
is I'm gonna run you through the game of Roulette. A lot of the terminology,
just to explain to you how this great traditional casino game works.
When you're playing on our site,
you're using the European Roulette Wheel. Critically,
you're using the European Wheel because, when you're play in America,
there are two zero's in the wheel. There's 38 different slots for the ball to drop into.
Here, there's only 37. You've got a much better chance of winning
on the European Wheel. It's got a single zero, that's how you can spot it.
I'll always advise you players, never play Roulette on a wheel
with two zero's, you're not getting fair odds. We give you the best odds
available anywhere on the European Wheel, on this website.
A Chaval, sometimes known as a Split, is where you place your chip on the line
between two numbers.
You're only betting two numbers, you'll get paid 17/1 odds
if you get a winning chip on a Chaval or a Split. 17/1 odds.
A Column Bet is a way of playing twelve numbers with one chip.
In this case, they're numbers that run all the way up the table. Maybe numbers 3 through 36,
the middle column are numbers 2 through 35, the first column
are numbers 1 through 34. You place your chips on this 2/1 area here,
you're covering all twelve number and if you're successful, you'll get paid
at odds of 2/1.
You're betting twelve numbers, that's called a Column Bet.
A Corner, it's one of the middling bets. It's a very very popular way of playing.
You place your chip on any crossroads between the four numbers there. You're
covering
each of the four numbers that your chip is touching. You get paid
8/1 odds, you're covering four numbers. So for each one that you bet,
one chip on that little corner there returns you
eight chips for each one. They're called a corner and they pay 8/1 odds.
In the game of Roulette, the croupier
after the ball has dropped into the number, we can see the ball here, it's in the number 3,
they will drop the Dolly on the number, clear the loosing chips away, pay the
winning chips.
This is a marker, that lets you players know what the winning number is.
It's always been called le' Dolly, the Dolly, you put it on the number
and it marks the winning result. They're usually made out of glass, still some made out of crystal,
These are called the Dolly. Again another French phrase, the game of Roulette is a
very very traditional old French game.
The "En Plein" is a Straight Up Bet on one number, there you go.
One number you bet, En Plein, number 8, straight on the number.
Biggest risk, biggest reward, play your En Plein,
get a 35/1 return.
One of your safe ways of playing in Roulette is the High/Lows,
Odds and Evens. This time, the numbers 1-18, low numbers.
Each one you bet, you've got eighteen numbers in your favour. Low risk, low return,
we double you up when you play the lower numbers, eighteen in your favour.
Evens, levels you devils. You double up when you win on the low numbers.
A Neighbour Bet is a way of you having a little area of the wheel in your favour.
You pick your favourite number by playing a number and its Neighbours.
You then have the two numbers either side of it on the Roulette Wheel in your favour as
well. In the wheel here, we've got an example with the zero
and on the table I've placed the chips. Zero is surrounded by the following numbers;
26, 32, 3
and 15. So by doing zero and the neighbours, it's a five piece bet.
If one of the zero or the neighbour numbers comes in, you get a 36 piece return.
It's a classic way of playing, it's a little area of the wheel in your favour,
a Neighbours Bet. In this case, zero and the neighbours, for each 5 chips you bet,
you get 36 chips back. Your own little area of the wheel to win with.
The French sections are
three different specific ways of placing your chips on
areas of your Roulette Wheel. The least known and the smallest of the French sections
is called the Orphans or the Orphelins and I've set it up for you on the table
here.
It's a five piece bet that can return you up to 36 chips.
You have a Straight Up on the number 1, you bet the 6-9,
You've Split or Chavalled the 14-17 and 17-20.
Also, a Split or Chaval on 31-34.
It's a very classical, good old-fashioned way of
playing the game of Roulette. It's called the Orphans or the Orphelins, you need
multiples of five chips to play it. Called the Orphans
and you can win at up to sort of 36 chips for every
five that you lay out. They're called the Orphans, they're part of the French sections.
Betting on the Outsides,
we've discussed the low numbers, the high numbers the even numbers and the odd numbers, eighteen numbers
in your favour.
Here they are on the outside of the table, the Outside Chances.
The lower risk, the lower return bets. Every time we have a bet, you've got eighteen numbers in you favour.
You bet one, you win one, it's as simple as that. Low risk, low return, but a lovely way to
start yourself off, getting a little win at the Roulette Table.
Low risk, low return, they're called the Even Money Chances, the Outside Bets.
One of the middling bets is
the Six Line. We do low risk, we do higher risk, somewhere in the middle
really, you'd say the Six Line.
You'd drop your chip here, or perhaps here and it covers all the six numbers across the table.
In this example, numbers 4-9.
In this example, the numbers 10-15.
You've got six of the 37 numbers on the Roulette Wheel in your favour.
If you get a winning chip, for each one that you bet on the Six Line, we're going to pay you
five winning chips.
A way of playing three different numbers with one chip is called a Street. They're quite
specific bets the Streets.
They run across the table generally. In this case, the numbers 4, 5 and 6,
the 4-6 Street. This one is 10-12 street.
You can do as many or as few of them as you like. For each winning return, you get,
maybe in this example 4, 5 and 6, the winning number is number 5,
11/1 odds is the return when you bet on the Streets.
A fairly high risk bet actually, the third highest risk. Three numbers, 11/1 returns,
they're called Streets.
French sections are ways of
playing areas of the wheel. The most popular of them,
the best known of them, is called the Tiers Du Cylindre, often
mispronounced but not by me. If you look at your Roulette Wheel,
the numbers 27-33 inclusive make up a nice little chunk
of the Roulette pie and that's twelve numbers together on the wheel.
Tiers Du Cylindre translates from the French as "A third of the Cylinder",
so you've got a third of the numbers in your favour, more or less, without discounting the zero
and you can place them on the table as such; 5-8, ,10-11,
13-16, 23-4, 27-30,
33-36. They're all what we call Chavals or Splits,
when you're splitting your stake between the two numbers. In total then, there are twelve
numbers
on the Tiers Du Cylindre. You place them nice and evenly, so for each six chip outlay
that you put,
you're gonna treble up and win eighteen chips. If you play the Tier by one,
a six chip outlay, an eighteen chip return.
And it's all those numbers pushed up at the zero on the Roulette Wheel between
27 and 33 that are your winning numbers on the Tier Du Cylindre.
French sections, lovely way of playing
an area of the wheel in your favour. There are three of them; the Voisins Du Zero,
the Tier Du Cylindre and the Orphelins. The biggest of the French sections is this one here
that we've got placed at the table.
It's called le' Voisins Du Zero, it covers every single number on the Roulette Wheel,
starting at 25,
moving through the zero in the middle, moving all the way round to 22
on the other side of the wheel. 17 numbers of the 37, almost half of the wheel
are being backed by you. So you really want that ball to drop near to the
zero. It's a beautiful, lovely old-fashioned way of playing.
There's a classical chip placement on the table here for you to do so.
What do you do? You place two chips on 0-2-3,
chip on 4-7, one on 12-15,
one on 18-21, one on 19-22,
a couple of chips on 25-9 Corner there, covering those four numbers
and the two numbers here, 32-35 complete it. You need multiples of
nine chips, you can get some bigger returns, some slightly smaller returns here.
It's a little bit uneven,
it's called the Voisins Du Zero, the Neighbours of the zero.
As I say, starts at 25, zero in the middle, all the way round to 22 at the other side. You're covering a nice
big chunk, almost half of the Roulette Wheel.
Nearer to zero the better, when you place in the Voisins Du Zero.