IDN Poker Roulette Update
It’s been a while since we last looked at Roulette. No harm done because in terms of its online life Roulette has proven to be a remarkably stable game. What has changed a little though is the Single-Zero scene and that’s what we’ll focus on today.
Let’s re-cap the Roulette variations we’ll see on the web:
The standard American Roulette table has 38 numbers including 0 and 00 which yields a house edge of about 5.3%.
The European table does not have the 00 which means the house edge is shaved down to about 2.7%.
Some European games offer the “en-prison” rule: if the ball falls on O all even money bets are imprisoned; if an imprisoned bet wins on the next spin the bet is returned to the player. This player-friendly rule drops the house edge to about 1.4%.
A similar variation to “en-prison” is the French “la partage” rule where even money bets are split between the player and the house on 0. House edge for “la partage” is the same as “en-prison” at 1.4%.
There’s an Atlantic City variation on the American game which holds that on 0 or 00 all even money are …