Most players are able to pick up the rules to roulette easily, but playing online roulette simplifies the learning process. By playing online roulette you have the entire internet at your disposal, so instead of having to try and remember all of the rules while you are at the casino you can simply look them up as you go. If you’re still learning the rules here is a general outline of the rules for online roulette.

The game consists of a wheel with numbers 0-37 (or 38 some wheels vary) in the color red or black. The roulette wheel is twirled and then a little ball is put onto the roulette while it is spinning. This tosses the ball around randomly. When the wheel stops spinning the ball will be resting on a space with a color and a number on it, the objective of roulette is to guess where the ball will be when the wheel stops.

Bets are placed before the wheel stops and depending on whether or not you win your bet and what kind of bet it was you will win some odd sum of money. At some point in time casinos started putting two 0’s on their wheels instead of one. The 0 is the worst number for the ball to land it, a 0 means that all players lose their bets and the house rakes in the money. The 0 makes is possible for the casinos to consistently win money running roulette tables. Which means if you want to maximize your odds tables with more than one 0 are to be avoided.

Payouts very depending on what kind of bet is made, there are inside bets and outside bets. Inside bets are very specific and pay out very high, but the chances of winning are much lower. Outside bets are much easier to win but the payout isn’t impressive compared to the inside bets.

An inside bet might be a bet that the ball will land on a certain number. Outside bets are much more open, for example an outside bet might be that the ball will land on numbers 16 and above.