The Layout of the Roulette Wheel

Being one of the most elegant games in the casino, roulette has enticed many of its players because of the unique structures on the roulette wheel and its betting layout. Though complex looking, the roulette betting layout is easier to understand once the player gets acquainted with the betting structures involved in roulette.

The numbers on the betting layout are complemented on the roulette wheel which determines the fate of the player to win or lose. The roulette wheel is elegantly looking piece of wooden material that is created artistically under the influence of mechanical engineering technology.

Though simple looking, the roulette wheel is embossed with elegance and mysterious aura that spins the luck of each player of roulette. It is on the roulette wheel where the roulette ball is tossed by the croupier in order to determine the winning numbers in each betting round in roulette.

The roulette wheel looks like a large bowl with an axis from where it spins. Its interior wall is designed to slant downward where at the end are numbered pockets where the roulette ball will drop once the roulette wheel stops spinning.

The layout of the roulette wheel consists of pockets that bear the number symbols with each poker colored in alternate red and black except for the green colored zero pockets.

The roulette wood is often created from a polished wood that are 3 feet in diameter and weighs about 100 pounds. The presentation of the numbers on the roulette wheels are made in a manner where there is a balance distribution of even and odd numbers, black and red numbers and low and high numbers.

There are two typical kinds of roulette wheels namely that of the European and American roulette. The American roulette wheel has their numbers facing in the outside direction while that of the European roulette wheel is facing inside the wheel.

It is a standard layout on the roulette wheel that the red and black numbers alternate in both types of roulette wheel. The American and the European roulette wheels are distinguishable from each other due to the presence of the double zeros in the American roulette wheel.

It is said that in the history of roulette gambling, there are biased roulette wheels which gamblers take advantage of in order to determine the number pocket the roulette ball will most likely fall on the roulette wheel.

But due to the more advanced technology, the creation of the roulette wheel has already been perfected and casinos are now becoming keener in watching for the presence of biased wheel on their establishment which they immediately replaced with new ones.