My downfall in my dark days of gambling was roulette. I thought I could beat online casinos, convinced that 'seed numbers' generated a pattern of numbers, not randomness. I learnt the hard way and will pay the financial price of this for the next few years. 6 months on I'm fine with this, I still have my family, my home and my job. These were close to being next to be staked once I had allowed online casinos to hoover up all of my money and available credit. Thankfully I had the sense to call time on gambling before I lost it all. Had I not I could well have been on the streets by now or worse.
I can recall fellow gamblers jokingly saying they would never play any kind of roulette. Usually citing the house edge, potentially rigged online sites and a couple who stated that the sum total of the numbers added up to exactly 666 so they knew they stood no chance of winning!

Straight Up bet is a wager on a single number. It pays 35 to 1. Split Bet is a wager on two numbers and it pays 17 to 1. You make this bet by placing your chip so it straddles the line between any two numbers. Street bets or line bet pays 11 to 1. You make this bet by placing your chip on the vertical line separating the outside and inside. Until the late 1800s, roulette wheels in the United States featured 31 numbers, plus 0, 00, and an American Eagle symbol that acted as a third 0. Numbers on the wheel are arranged so that red alternates with black, odd alternates with even, and consecutive numbers of the same color add up to 37 - most of the time. The number 12, 14, and 16 all appear diagonally to add up to 42. And when you add number 2 and 4, the result is 6 of course! The third reference – Three numbers appearing horizontally on the Roulette wheel adds to six, and the numbers 28, 29, and 30 are inscribed horizontally towards the rear. The sum of these numbers is 87, and when you add 8 and 7, the total is 15. Ever wonder how many numbers there are on a roulette wheel? Interestingly, it all depends on the specific version of roulette. Online roulette numbers total 38 on the American wheel and 37 on the European version. Why the difference? The American version of roulette adds a double zero, increasing the casino's house edge to a hefty 5.26%.

It's quite uncanny, sometimes numbers have meaning. I certainly felt that I was dancing with the devil at times when I burned thousands playing roulette.
Stay away from this unfair game. It's no coincidence that here in the UK the bookies have invested all of their money into FOBTs whose main game I believe is roulette. These machines are literally keeping high street bookies going, no one apparently betting on the horses any more.
As I've said on another post Einstein once said that the only way to win money at roulette is to
steal money from the table!!
Casinos and bookies are businesses - period, purely there to take your money and spit you back out once they've taken everything from you. Personally, although I have no evidence of this, I believe that many online sites may well let you win in the early days of your 'theft by mutual consent' relationship but then once they've drawn you in they will take all they can from you before moving on to the next naive deluded punter.
Don't give them any more of your hard earned cash, do you really think they deserve to take it all from you?

The straight up bet in roulette, is an inside bet (as is a corner bet) on a single number (or group of single numbers). It pays out 35:1, but bear in mind that there are 37 numbers in a wheel (or 38 on an American Roulette wheel), so your odds are less.
That doesn´t mean that people´s numbers don´t drop in though- check out this lucky lady´s story.

Best Roulette Numbers To Bet On

This bet is called “en plein” in French (the Finales en Plein bets are made up of a series of single number bets).

The table above show straight-up bets on 8, 15, 17 and 22.

Of course, this most famous of the inside roulette bets: betting on one number and hoping for it to come in is a pretty risky strategy, so most people try and cover more of the table with low bets on multiple numbers. There is a strategy called the Pivot Roulette System where you bet one number- also know as the Makarov System (flat betting) or a selection of numbers, and hope that they drop in within 35 spins (kind of like playing the lottery on a roulette wheel this one). If your number drops in before 35 spins have passed, you are in profit. At 35 spins, you break even. After that, you are on a loss. Other systems like the Caro System also talk about single-number bets (but you won´t actually play them!). The Shotwell Roulette System also uses single number bets.

Multi-Wheel Roulette

If you are playing strategies on single numbers like the Makarov System, you might want to try out some of the Multi-Wheel roulette games we have on the site. These variants allow you to bet on up to eight wheels at once which, if you are betting on single numbers, allows you to considerably sped things up. Most of the games allow you to pick how many wheels you want to spin simultaneously. Just pick a number, choose the number of wheels you want to play and press spin.

Straight-Up Bet Tip

The fewer numbers you bet on, the lower your table cover and the lower your probability of your number coming in (but the higher the payout). You can balance that out by letting small cover bets “ride”. i.e. do multiple spins and hope for an early result.

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The same theory applies for straight up bets, as it does for the outside bets like the dozens bet, in terms of which variants you should be playing and which you should be avoiding. If you bet on one number, you are not going to get paid if the ball lands in the zero pocket, and so it makes sense to play on a European Roulette game with one zero, rather than an American Roulette game with 2.

So how do you pick a single number, or a group of numbers? Well, I guess you use the same technique as when you play the National Lottery. Maybe you have a lucky number? Or pick birthdays. We have a whole section covering numbers in roulette that night help you.

Straight Up bets often form the core of more complex call bets, such as the Complete Roulette Bet, which is a popular play for high roller types. Check out this Pedro Grendene Bartelle roulette bet, for example. This guy won $3.5 million betting on the number 32 but he hedged himself slightlt by covering the 8 numbers srurrounding the number with Split Bets (bets on 2 adjacent numbers on the table).

Roulette Wheel Numbers Add Up To 666

This is basically the same question as “Which is the best Casino for playing roulette online?”, as the single number bet is ubiquitous. We’d plump for a Microgaming casino like Royal Vegas or a Playtech like bet365 Casino, both of which have a excellent choice of variants and are pretty fair to roulette players.