As the American and European roulette have different number of slots on roulette wheels, their rules are not identical, and you have to know their nuances if you want to play Roulette and win. There’s also a so-called French Roulette, and its layout is absolutely different from the one we are used to, but as this variant isn’t so widespread, let’s concentrate on the American and the European Roulette.
The American Roulette layout looks as follows:

As you can see, the main difference of its layout is an additional zero space, on which you can place bets. As far as the roulette wheel is concerned, it has 38 numbers and they are situated in the way which allows to achieve the best balance between black and red, high and low, even and odd numbers. The scheme of the Roulette wheel looks this way:

This scheme is used to calculate the approximate payouts in American and European Roulette:
payout = (36 ? n) / n
The house edge in American roulette is a bit more than 5% while in the European roulette it is 2 times lower. I see no need to insert the bet odds scheme table in this post, but if you want to play American roulette, you need to have a look at it to understand what chances you have when bet on different numbers. You may use one of the popular Roulette betting systems for a start to feel more confident. When you feel more confident and start to “feel the game”, you may try to introduce some variations in the systems and, finally, create a betting system of your own. You must remember that you may learn to play only when you are playing, so try to play American Roulette online to see what the game is like in general.

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