Watching the Roulette Wheel spin is exciting!

Anticipation, craziness, wild, unbelievable, fun, exhilarating are just some of the words used when you ask people what it is like to play Roulette in a casino. From the movies to magazine ads to television commercials, there is always a crowd at the Roulette table where the action never stops.

Roulette provides the opportunity for everyone to make money. The game is played on an elongated table with a large wheel by the dealer and the rest of the table is covered in felt with all the possible betting choices mapped out and clearly marked.

All that spinning starts with the wheel. A small white ball, historically made of ivory, rolls around it, with thirty eight different grooves carved out and labelled with numbers. Each of these grooves is a place for the ball to stop. The numbers run from one through thirty six and alternate background colors, red and black, as the numbers grow. There are also two “non-numbers” 0 and 00 which act as loss numbers and have a green background. Unlike many other casino games, Roulette wants to help the player bet and provides many chances to make money, with each successive spin of the wheel.

From the simplest bet, choosing if the ball will land on a red or black number, even novices can try their luck. Roulette’s simplicity is also what attracts people to gambling from an early age, hoping their number wins is like betting on the lottery, but instead of doing it alone, you are with a group of likeminded people, many of which are probably rooting for the same number you are, albeit for different bets they placed. The excitement encourages everyone to let it ride, keep the same bet, or make a change to something else and if you really feel lucky, cover all your bets in multiple ways.

It doesn’t matter whether or you are playing live at a casino or spin the roulette online the anticipation is just as exciting. As you watch everyone bet and see all the action on the table, it is hard to not get as excited as a child seeing their home team play live for the first time. Once the dealer says stop the bets, everyone’s eyes turn to the wheel.

As the dealer spins the wheel one direction, he then sends the ball rolling in the opposite direction which creates almost a hypnotic rhythm to the game. You get drawn into watching the little white ball spin around until gravity starts lowering the trajectory towards the wheel. What sounds like a crack is that first glorious moment when the ball meets the wheel. The outcome is near, you can hear it and see it as the bouncing and noise of the ball trying to land firmly on the wheel comes to an end. With a final drop the dealer yells out the winning number and color to the delight of many, the curses of a few and the great frenzy starts all over again. Is it any wonder people stay and play Roulette for hours on end?