American Roulette

They have long offered some of the very best gaming options to roulette fans, with several versions of the classic game being among some of their very first titles, but they have revisited all of those games as technology has moved on and improved them to ensure that they are always towards the head of the market.

American Roulette is a reference entry rather than a review: it collects the games in this library that belong under the heading and says what the heading actually means, because on a casino site it is usually a marketing label and nothing more.

Two things are worth knowing about lists like this one. A theme is a skin — the artwork, the soundtrack and the symbol set change, the mathematics underneath does not, and two games sharing a theme can behave nothing alike. A feature name, on the other hand, is often a trademark: the same rule ships under a different word in every studio’s catalogue, so a game missing from a list of one name may well be on the list of another name for the same thing. Where that is the case, the entry says which family the rule belongs to instead of pretending the label is unique.

Every game named below has its own spec sheet with the layout and the figures the studio published for it. The rules behind the features are taken apart family by family in Slot Mechanics, the arithmetic is in Slot Math, and the full index of sheets is Slots A–Z.

American roulette is the double-zero wheel. Thirty-eight pockets — the numbers 1 to 36 plus a single zero and a double zero — against the thirty-seven of the European layout, and that one extra pocket is the whole difference between the two games. Every bet on the table pays as though the zeroes were not there, so adding a second one raises the house edge on almost every bet the table accepts.

The layout differs too, and it is worth a look before playing the online version. The wheel sequence is not the European sequence, the two zeroes sit opposite each other, and the American table adds the five-number bet across the top row, which is the worst bet on the felt. The outside bets — red or black, odd or even, the columns and dozens — behave exactly as they do on the single-zero wheel, minus the difference the extra pocket makes. Online, both wheels are usually offered side by side in the same lobby at the same stakes, which means choosing the double-zero table is a choice rather than an accident.

The rest of the table games we hold sheets for are in Table Games, and how a house edge behaves over a session — as opposed to over a single bet — is explained in Slot Math.

Watch Out for the Double Zero

If you’re more familiar with European roulette, then the key difference that you’ll need to look out for here is the double zero. That double zero does somewhat swing the odds in the favour of the casino, although if you play with a solid strategy then it can be just as profitable, if not more so, than its European counterpart. The Premier series that Playtech has been working on brings top class graphics and sounds to the table and while they are known for their live games, virtual versions such as this definitely have a place. All of their games are solid, but American Roulette has been created with a certain visual flair that ensures that the action never stops. Give the wheel a spin today here at Gamblib, and you’ll soon discover why Playtech’s roulette games are so highly regarded.

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