Roulette Wheel Construction
According to the roulette history the wheel was invented in the course of experiments done by the famous mathematician Blaise Pascal. The aim to invent the perpetual motion machine was not reached but the wheel gained extreme popularity. The famous nowadays roulette game got its name from the French language and meant "little wheel".
Roulette wheel construction
The modern roulette wheel is not the same as it was before and its construction is quite simple and straightforward.
The present roulette wheel with 36 numbered slots and single zero slot in European roulette and double zero slot in American roulette is settled at the roulette table. The slots are painted in black or red colors. There are also special pockets at the roulette wheel close to the slots for the ball to land.
Biased wheel
The modern roulette wheels are of the top quality and specially designed for each roulette table to fully satisfy the casinos as well as the players. However, there occur the so called biased wheels with some manufacturing defects or those acquired during the playing. These wheels can help players to win by showing the particular number pattern over some period of time. It means that some numbers occur more often than others due to the defects. Having noticed the regularities players can take advantage of such wheel and predict the future outcomes more easily. However, players that like to play in the online mode have no advantages over casinos as there are no biased wheels in online roulette.
European and American roulette wheel
The main difference between European roulette wheel and American roulette wheel is the numbers sequence. The numbers in European version of the wheel are placed in the random order whereas American wheel has numbers placed in pairs but opposite one another. The main idea of the wheel is to place black and red colors as well as even and odd numbers equally. The wheel is being rotated by the dealer in one direction but the ball is being thrown in other. After some time of spinning the ball slows down and lands in one of the pockets.
