1. Roulette Odds Red Black Green Dot
2. Roulette Odds Red Black Green Stripe
3. Roulette Odds Red Black Green Beans

The odds of red or black spinning in a row. On the European wheel, there are 37 numbers. 18 are black, and 18 are red. So the odds of red spinning are 18/37 = 0.4865. The odds of black spinning are the same. And it’s the same for any “even chance” bet including highs and lows, and odds and evens. That’s easy – the best bet in roulette is an even money bet, such as red/black, odd/even, 1-18, or 19-36. As you should already know from reading our roulette odds guide, these outside bets are the most likely to win. The payoff numbers are either black, red or green. The numbers one through 36 are either red or black. The number (s) 0 and/or 00 are green. The best bet for the player is to play on a roulette wheel where there is a single zero and not a doubl. In European online roulette, there are 37 spaces: 18 red, 18 black, and one green (zero). By contrast, American online roulette features 38 spaces: 18 red, 18 black, and two green (zero and double-zero). The number of green spaces is crucial because these are so-called “house” spaces.

EUROPEAN TABLES (single zero)

Roulette Odds Red Black Green Dot

The standard European table has 18 black, 18 red and one green pocket (numbered 0) making 37 pockets in all.

Betting on any single number pays out 35/1. If you bet $1 and your number comes up, your payout is your winnings of $35 plus your original stake of $1 making $36 in total.

As there are 37 pockets and only one of them can win, your winning chances are 1/37. Therefore on a fair wheel *, if you play a massive number of games, it will average out that for every $37 you bet, you'll get back $36.

To illustrate this, imagine putting $1 on every number. This will cost you $37, but when the winning number pays you $36 back and the others all lose, you've lost $1.

The house edge on a European wheel averages at $1 from every $37 bet which is 2.7%.

* The 'Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo' was supposedly Charles De Ville Wells, who won a huge amount of money one night in 1891. He didn't actually break the bank, but he did have a good enough run at one of the tables to make the owners fetch more cash in from elsewhere in the casino. Although he claimed to have a system, it is far more likely that he had been watching the wheel over a long period of nights, and had noticed a slight imbalance resulting in the numbers on one side coming up more often than the others.

Roulette Odds Red Black Green Stripe

Another popular bet is Red/Black which pays out 1/1 (or evens), so if you put $1 on red and any red number comes up, you get $1 winnings plus your $1 stake back = $2 in total.

Roulette Odds Red Black Green Beans

Your winning chances are 18/37 because there are 18 red numbers out of the total 37. If there was no ZERO hole, then the chances would be 18/36 = 1/2. It would be an even bet and you should win exactly as much as you lose. However the ZERO will come up about 1/37 times, so neither red or black win. Once again, this gives a house edge of 2.7%.