Roulette for Advanced

          Announced bets

Announced bets or "Call Bets" as they are on a regular basis referred by the players, it is a wager where the player calls a bet and immediately places the amount of money necessary to cover the bets on the table, before the croupier announcing that there are no more.

The roulette wheel as you know has 37 or 38 pockets with numbers ranging from 0 and 00 to 37, this numbers are placed in five different number series. Bets on one or more of these series are also called "French Bets".

          French Bets

Neighbors of zero (Voisins du zéro in French)

This series is composed by the seventeen numbers, placed on the wheel between 22 and 25 including both 22 and 25. On the European wheel the series is: 22, 18, 29, 7, 28, 12, 35, 3, 26, 0, 32, 15, 19, 4, 21, 2, 25.

9 chips or multiples of 9 must be placed on the table layout to cover this bet:

1 chip is placed on the split: 32/55

Zero Game (Jeu zéro in French)

This is a kind of bet where you wager on the numbers closest to zero.

The numbers are as follows:

12, 35, 3, 26, 0, 32, 15.

4 chips or multiples of 4 must be placed on the table layout to cover this bet:
1 chip placed straight up on 26

1 chip on the split 32/35

1 chip on the split 12/15

1 chip on the split 0/3

There is also another type of Zero Game bet with 5 chips placed on the layout, the fifth chip is placed on straight up 19.

Thirds of the wheel (Le tiers du cylindre in French)

The Tiers bet as is on a regular basis referred by the players, is a bet made on the twelve numbers situated between 27 and 33 including both 27 and 33. The series is as follows:27, 13, 36, 11, 30, 8, 23, 10, 5, 24, 16, 33

6 chips or multiples of 6 should be placed on the table layout to cover the bet.

1 chip placed on the split 5/8

1 chip placed on the split 10/11

1 chip placed on the split 13/16

1 chip placed on the split 23/24

1 chip placed on the split 27/30

1 chip placed on the split 33/36

There is also another type of Thirds of the wheel bet with 10 chips placed on the layout, an additional bet of 1 chip on the straight up 5, 8, 10 and 11, this is called "Tier 5, 8, 10, 11".

Orphans (Orphelins)

The Orphans bet is a bet called on a 8 number series, placed on the two slices of the wheel on the outside of Voisins and Tiers.
The series are as follows: 17, 34, 6 and 1, 20, 14, 31, 9.

5 chips or multiples of 5 chips must be placed on the table layout, as follows:

1 chip is placed straight up on 1

1 chip is placed on the split 6/9

1 chip is placed on the split 14/17

1 chip is placed on the split 17/20

1 chip is placed on the split 31/34

The neighbors

Using this type of Called bet you can back up a number using the two numbers that are placed on the either side of them on the wheel. As an example we will use "0 and the Neighbors".
This is a 5 or multiples of 5 chips placed as follows:

1 chip is placed straight up on 3

1 chip is placed straight up on 26

1 chip is placed straight up on 0

1 chip is placed straight up on 32

1 chip is placed straight up on 15

You can use this called bet, also in a combination. For example : 1, 9, 14 and the Neighbors:

15 or multiples of 15 chips must be placed on the table layout to cover this bet. As follows:

1 chip is placed straight up on 18

1 chip is placed straight up on 22

1 chip is placed straight up on 33

1 chip is placed straight up on 16

2 chips are placed straight up on 9

2 chips are placed straight up on 31

2 chips are placed straight up on 20

2 chips are placed straight up on 1

3 chips are placed straight up on 14

         Final Bets

This is another type of bet, you can use at the roulette table. The best way to explain this bet is using examples:

Final 4 is a 4 or multiples of 4 chips bet on all the numbers ending in 4 on the table layout as follows:

1 chip is placed straight up on 4

1 chip is placed straight up on 14

1 chip is placed straight up on 24

1 chip is placed straight up on 34

Final 7 is a 3 or multiples of 3 chips bet on all the numbers ending in 7 on the table layout, as follows

1 chip is placed straight up on 7

1 chip is placed straight up on 17

1 chip is placed straight up on 27

Final bets starting from zero to 6 will cost you 4 chips or a multiple of 4, the last three final bets 7, 8 and 9 will cost you 3 chips or a multiple of 3.

          Full completes/maximums bets

Maximums bets are a type of bet preferred by the high rollers, and it refers to placing all the inside bets on a certain number.

This maximum amount can be easily calculated using a progressive betting model. But the best way to demonstrate this is to use an example:

Let's say that the maximum amount allowed to be wagered on a straight up bet is $1000, than the maximum wager on a split bet will be $2000, each corner containing your number of choice, will have a maximum wager amount of $4000, on each street you will be able to bet a maximum of $3000, each six line containing your number, will allow a maximum wager of $6000. When we add up you will see that in fact you will wager $40.000 on a Maximum Bet.

We will go even further with the example and we will choose our number of choice to be 17, to make a maximums bet you will require to lay on the table 40 chips, those chips will be placed as follows.

1 chip is placed straight up on 17

2 chips are placed on the split 17/14

2 chips are placed on the split 17/16

2 chips are placed on the split 17/18

2 chips are placed on the split 17/20

3 chips are placed on the street 17/16/18

4 chips are placed on the corner 17/16/13/14

4 chips are placed on the corner 17/18/14/15

4 chips are placed on the corner 17/16/19/20

4 chips are placed on the corner 17/18/20/21

6 chips are placed on the six line 17/16/18/13/14/15/6

6 chips are placed on the six line 17/16/18/19/20/21/6

This bet will payout if the number 17 comes up 392 chips, in the case of the example I just gave you, the player wagered 40 chips each valued at $1000 and he won 392 chips each valued at $1000.
If you follow this progressive betting model, you can determine the number of chops you need to make a maximum bet for all the numbers on the wheel

Zero will you costs 17 chips to complete and will pay 235 chips.

The numbers 1 and 3 each will cost 27 chips and will pay 297 chips.

The numbers 2 will cost 36 chips will pay 396 chips.

The 1st column, will cost you 30 chips for each number and it will pay 294 chips/number.

The 2nd column will cost you 40 chips for each number and will pay 392 chips/number.

Numbers 34 and 36 each cost 18 pieces and pay 198 pieces.

Number 35 is a 24 piece bet which pays 264 pieces.

However, one chip can worth, from $1 to $1000, coming back to our example we remember that if you choose number 17 to bet on, you will have to lay on the table 40 chips and that will bring you a profit of 392 chips, in case you win, but each chip can worth from $1 to $1000.

          Strategy & Tactics

During the casino history many players tried to turn the odds in their favour, most of those players were using a system or a strategy, and almost all were promoting the idea that the casino (even William Hill) can be beaten that by simply observing a simple pattern in the wheel spin results, you can predict the outcome of the future wheel spins.

Almost all the system and strategies are based on a idea that the outcome of a wheel spin is somehow related to the result of the spin that preceded it. Nowadays we know that all the betting systems based on patterns are destined to fail and the result can be no other than you losing money. This kind of pattern systems have a very high risk because they are wrong in assuming that the spins results are related in some way one with another.

Also there were and still are some betting systems that work.