The American Roulette wheel is by far the more widespread
table found on online casinos and Vegas casinos. There
is an extremely easy reason for this, the house edge
is 5.25% for all bets apart from the five number bet
which has a house edge of 7.29%. Contrast this to European
Roulette which has a house edge of 2.70% and you can
see why casinos prefer American Roulette.
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The dissimilarity in odds is from the
edition of the "00" stop, so the wheel has
stops 1 to 36, 0 and 00. I don't advocate playing American
Roulette, chiefly online when European Roulette is readily
available. The main reason I feature American roulette
on this website is so you can understand the difference.
If you are required to play on American tables then
look out for those that offer the surrender rule, often
found in Atlantic City. The surrender rule relates to
even money bets on the table, when a 0 or 00 is landed
half your wager is returned. On these bets the house
edge is only 2.63%, somewhat better than European Roulette.
Of course the large bets are unavailable to you which
may or may not be a problem depending on your preferred
betting strategy.
