HISTORY OF ROULETTE
Roulette History. Roulette is a casino game that is named after the French word for small wheel – “roulette”. Roulette has been entertaining casino players from all over the world for nearly 300 years. The Roulette History starts when the first forms of roulette appear in Europe in 17th and 18th century. It is considered that Blaise Pascal (the famous French matematician and scientist) invented the roulette mechanism in 1657, in his search for a perpetual motion machine.
The roulette is considered to be a combination of the English wheel games Reiner, Ace of Hearts, Roly-Poly, an Italian board game named Hoca and Biribi and an already existing French board game of that name – Roulette. In 1739 Roly-Poly was prohibited in United Kingdom as well as many other games of chance. In the next 50-60 years the roulette had gone through many modifications and transformations until 1796 when in Paris the game started to be played in its present form and the modern roulette wheels became popular in the casinos in Paris. It contained the same elements as the modern roulette wheels do - the black and red sectors, the position of the sectors from 1 to 36 around the wheel and the 00 sector in the American Roulette (the odds of a roulette wheel with a 00 sector are more favourable to the casinos since the chance for the roulette players to lose is bigger). The only difference was that the 0 sector was in red colour (although, the casinos prohibited all bets on red, in case, that a zero came out) and the 00 sector was black (bets on black were losing). Later, in order to remove this confussion they changed the colours of 0 and 00 to green.
Meanwhile, two brother inventors from France went the other way and started looking for ways to make the roulette odds more favourable to the players. Francois and Luis Blank brought in the first roulette wheel with one 0 sector only (without 00) in 1842. They left France, where the gambling was prohibited and went to live in a house in Homburg (todays Germany). The roulette wheel with one 0 sector, with 2.7% favour for the casino instead of the 5.26% for the roulette wheel with 00 sector, was a great success. After that Luis Blank was invited to Monaco by the prince of Monaco, Charles III, (after who Monte Carlo was named), and he started working for the casino and setting casino standarts for the whole Europe.
Although both types of the roulette (with one zero sector and with two) came from France, the roulette with 2 green sectors became popular as American Roulette, because it was very popular in USA. The popularity of the roulette with 1 zero sector grew fast, it displaced the American Roulette and it was soon named as French Roulette.
The roulette was very popular, until the moment the players thought that the Blackjack may be outwitted. Despite this fact the roulette is still one of the most popular and interesting games around. You may learn how to play roulette by reading our Roulette Rules section.
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