More than 300 years ago a Frenchman named Blaise Pascal invented the roulette wheel and game. It was during his search for a perpetual motion machine that he came up with this casino game which is now a staple of most gambling establishments. Players bet on either a single number or various groupings of numbers, the color red or black, whether the number is high or low, etc. The chips used for this game are very different than most other table games as they don’t have a specific denomination printed on them, instead each player has his own set of colored chips which are placed on the betting table in a specific area that is labeled with the bets and their payout.

The house edge for this game is a bit higher than that of other casino games as there is an extra green spot on the wheel that all even money bets lose when the ball lands in. But aside from this one extra spot the odds of winning are the same as all other bets at 2-1.

Despite the fact that roulette seems to be a simple and random game there are many, (possibly millions) of systems on how to beat it. The American mathematician Patrick Billingsley has stated that “no betting system can convert a subfair game into a profitable enterprise.” It is true that you will find a few people who are able to win consistently at roulette but they all use a rigged wheel and have some sort of mechanical advantage such as a biased tracker or some type of tracking device.