How to Win at Roulette
The best way to win at roulette is by understanding the odds and choosing a bet type that gives you the highest chance of success. It is also important to know when to walk away from the table.
Roulette is a game of chance, played on a table marked off with numbers and including a revolving dishlike device (roulette wheel). It is credited to French mathematician Blaise Pascal in the 17th century.
Origins
The history of roullete is not completely clear. However, it is believed that roulette evolved from games such as portique and hoca, which were played in gilded gaming parlors of pre-revolutionary Paris. These games were essentially variations of the wheel of fortune.
The most popular theory is that the game was invented in 1655 by French mathematician Blaise Pascal. He was working on a perpetual motion machine and the wheel of fortune came into his thinking.
Other theories point to a game of English origin called roly poly or even-odd as a possible ancestor of the game. These were similar games using a spinning wheel, but differed in that they had two zero pockets on the table. Regardless of the precise origins of the game, it was not until 1796 that the double zero was removed from the wheel and thus created what is known today as the modern French or European roulette wheels.