Atlassino Academy · Roulette · Lesson 5
Three wheels, three prices
The national catalogue of games of Chile allows three roulette wheels. How to tell them apart at the table, and what the same chip costs on each one.
Three roulette wheels are allowed in Chile. Which one is in front of you, and what does the same chip cost on each?
The short answer
A French wheel with one zero, an American wheel with one zero, and an American wheel with two. A single number pays 35 to 1 on all three, and costs 2.70% of the money bet on a wheel with one zero and 5.26% on a wheel with two: almost twice as much for the same payout. Count the zeros on the layout before the first chip goes down.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
Every roulette table in the country follows the same catalogue, and the catalogue allows three wheels. They look alike from across the room. The difference is one pocket, and that pocket nearly doubles the price of most chips on the layout. Ten seconds at the table tell you which wheel it is.
Three wheels in one catalogue
The national catalogue of games lists the French wheel and the American wheel, and the American wheel in two kinds: with one zero, and with a zero and a double zero. The French wheel has 37 pockets, 1 to 36 and a zero. The American wheel has the same 37 with one zero, and 38 with two. The American game works on the same principles as the French one, and pays the same figures for the same bets.
| French | American, one zero | American, two zeros | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pockets on the wheel | 37: 1 to 36 and a zero | 37: 1 to 36 and a zero | 38: 1 to 36, a zero and a double zero |
| Zeros on the layout | 0 | 0 | 0 and 00 |
| Even-money boxes | On both sides of the layout | On one side | On one side |
| Chips | Money chips | A colour for each player, or money chips | A colour for each player, or money chips |
| The five-number bet | None | None | 0, 00, 1, 2, 3, paid 6 to 1 |
| An even-money chip on a zero | Half back, or the whole chip in prison for one more spin | Half back | Half back |
The French layout carries the even-money boxes on both sides, the American layout on one side. French bets are made with money chips; at an American table each player has a colour of chip, and may choose money chips instead. The five-number bet exists only on the wheel with two zeros.
How to tell them apart at the table
The name does not tell you. Enjoy’s page on its tables heads its roulette RULETA AMERICANA
, and Gran Casino de Talca writes Disfruta de los clásicos Black Jack y Ruleta Americana
. The catalogue gives that name to the wheel with one zero and to the wheel with two, so a page that says American roulette has not told you how many zeros its wheel has. None of the casino pages we read says it.
Count the zeros
A 0 and a 00 at the head of the layout: the American wheel with two zeros. A single 0: one of the other two.
One zero? Look at the even-money boxes
Red, black, odd, even, 1–18 and 19–36 on both sides of the layout: the French wheel. On one side only: the American wheel with one zero.
Ask before the first chip
If the table is hard to see, ask the croupier how many zeros the wheel has, and what happens to an even-money chip on a zero.
Leoformer dealer · rules and maths
The zeros sit at the head of the layout, next to the 1, 2 and 3. Look there first. The wheel itself is far from the players and turns fast; the layout is right in front of you and does not move.
Colour chips are a sign of an American table, but not of how many zeros it has, and an American table may also be played with money chips. The limits of each game are posted in the room.
The same chip, three prices
The catalogue prints what each bet pays, not what it costs. The table below is our count: the pockets of each wheel, the numbers each chip covers, and the payout the catalogue gives it.
| Bet | Pays | French | American, one zero | American, two zeros |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A single number | 35 to 1 | 2.70% | 2.70% | 5.26% |
| Split, two numbers | 17 to 1 | 2.70% | 2.70% | 5.26% |
| Street, three numbers | 11 to 1 | 2.70% | 2.70% | 5.26% |
| Corner, four numbers | 8 to 1 | 2.70% | 2.70% | 5.26% |
| Six line, six numbers | 5 to 1 | 2.70% | 2.70% | 5.26% |
| A dozen or a column | 2 to 1 | 2.70% | 2.70% | 5.26% |
| Five numbers: 0, 00, 1, 2, 3 | 6 to 1 | Not on this wheel | Not on this wheel | 7.89% |
| Red, black, odd, even, 1–18, 19–36, with half back on a zero | 1 to 1 | 1.35% | 1.35% | 2.63% |
| The same, left in prison on a zero | 1 to 1 | 1.39% | Not on this wheel | Not on this wheel |
| The same, with the whole chip lost on a zero, as Enjoy’s page says | 1 to 1 | Not on that page | 2.70% | 5.26% |
One zero against two. On a wheel with one zero every bet that covers numbers comes out at 2.70% of the money bet, the French wheel and the American alike. On the wheel with two zeros the same payouts come out at 5.26%: one more pocket, almost twice the price. The five-number bet, which only that wheel has, costs 7.89%, more than any other bet on any of the three.
The even-money bets. By the catalogue’s rule a zero takes half of an even-money chip, so an even-money bet costs half the price of the bets around it: 1.35% on a wheel with one zero and 2.63% on the wheel with two. On the French wheel the player may instead leave the whole chip in prison for one more spin; by our count over the two spins that costs 1.39%, a shade more than taking half back. These prices are our count from the catalogue’s rule; the catalogue prints no price.
What every spot on the layout pays, chip by chip, is lesson 4.2.
A zero and an even-money chip: two documents
The catalogue says it in one sentence for each American wheel: Si sale el cero (0) y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla pierde la mitad de su apuesta.
A chip on red, black, odd, even, 1–18 or 19–36 loses half, and the other half comes back to its owner. Every other chip that does not cover the zero is lost.
One casino page says otherwise. Enjoy’s page on its American roulette writes: En caso que el número ganador sea el cero (o doble cero):
… Todas las docenas, columnas y suertes sencillas pierden.
That is the dozens, the columns and the even-money bets, all lost on a zero, with no half coming back. The half that comes back is the rule of the Superintendencia’s catalogue; we do not choose between the two for you. At a table that takes the whole chip, an even-money bet costs 2.70% on a wheel with one zero and 5.26% on the wheel with two, the same as the bets around it. Before putting a chip on an even-money bet, ask at the table what happens to it on a zero.
Rules like these differ from casino to casino around the world, and they change what an even-money bet costs.
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
A cheaper wheel is still a price. Choosing the wheel with one zero halves what most chips cost you; it does not turn the evening around. Decide the money and the time for the evening before the first chip, and stop when either runs out. If the money on the table starts to feel like money you need, read the box below: it names the national self-exclusion, which applies in every casino in the country, and the regulator’s switchboard.
If it stops being fun
If gambling stops being fun, the SCJ self-exclusion applies in every casino in the country. Minimum entry age: 18 (age of majority under Law 19.221; Law 19.995 bars minors from gaming rooms). The casino may ask for an official ID. More on responsible gaming.
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Practice: name the wheel, price the chip
Level 1 shows what you can see at a table and asks which wheel it is. Level 2 shows two chips of the same size and asks which costs less. Level 3 stops the ball in a zero and asks what comes back from your chip by the catalogue’s rule. The 10 units on each chip is an example bet, not a suggested bet.
Nothing is bet here, and nothing is random. Each question is a set picture, and the answer is worked out from the same rules and the same count as the rest of the page.
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At the table
- Zeros on the layout0
- Red, black, odd, even, 1–18, 19–36on both sides of the layout
Which of the catalogue’s three wheels is this?
- French, one zero One zero, and the even-money boxes on both sides of the layout: the French wheel.
- American, one zero Not this one. The American wheel with one zero has its even-money boxes on one side of the layout.
- American, two zeros Not this one. The American wheel with two zeros has a 0 and a 00 on the layout.
- Not enough to tell yet Not this one. What you see here is enough to name the wheel.
Count the zeros on the layout first: a 0 and a 00 is the American wheel with two zeros. With one zero, look at the even-money boxes: on both sides of the layout, the French wheel; on one side, the American wheel with one zero. A name on a page and the colour of the chips do not settle it.
Two chips of the same size
- A single number, on the American wheel with one zerochip A
- A single number, on the American wheel with two zeroschip B
Which chip costs less, spin for spin?
- Chip A A single number, on the American wheel with one zero: 2.70% of the money bet, on average. A single number, on the American wheel with two zeros: 5.26%.
- Chip B Not this one. A single number, on the American wheel with one zero: 2.70% of the money bet, on average. A single number, on the American wheel with two zeros: 5.26%.
- They cost the same Not this one. A single number, on the American wheel with one zero: 2.70% of the money bet, on average. A single number, on the American wheel with two zeros: 5.26%.
A price comes from the wheel and the bet together: how many pockets the wheel has, how many numbers the chip covers and what it pays, and, for an even-money chip, what a zero takes.
American roulette, two zeros
- The ball00
- On RED10 units
By the catalogue’s rule, what comes back to you from this chip?
- Nothing comes back Not this one. By the catalogue a zero takes only half of an even-money chip, not all of it.
- 5 units come back An even-money chip loses half on a zero: 5 units of your 10 units come back.
- 10 units come back Not this one. A zero does not leave an even-money chip untouched: half of it is lost.
That is the catalogue’s rule. On a zero, a chip that covers it is paid at its figure and comes back beside the payout; any other chip is lost, except an even-money chip, which loses half. On the French wheel the player may leave the whole even-money chip in prison for one more spin instead. Enjoy’s page on its American roulette says the even-money bets lose on a zero: ask at the table which rule it keeps.
Every question in the practice run is worked out the same way: the wheels are put through the same rules and the same count as the rest of the page, and the answer comes out of that, not out of anybody’s memory.
How the practice run works
Where the questions come from. Every answer is worked out when the page is built, from the catalogue’s rules and our count over the pockets of each wheel. The wrong answers are named mistakes: a name taken for a count of zeros, a payout taken for a price, the chip counted into its own payout, the whole of an even-money chip taken on a zero, a chip out of prison counted as paid.
One strip, and no rounds. Every square on the strip is one question of this lesson, and all of the squares are there from the start. Your first answer fills the square it belongs to; when the squares of one level are full, the next level begins by itself. Practising a question you got wrong turns its cross into “fixed in practice” and does not change the count, because only first answers count.
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Check yourself
Mayaformer floor supervisor · manners, money and breaks
Five quick ones. Pick an answer, then check it. No timer, no points: just whether it stuck.
Back to the question we opened with. Three wheels, one set of payouts, and three prices: 2.70% for a single number with one zero, 5.26% with two. The zeros on the layout tell you which price you are paying.
Further reading
Naming a bet from where its chip sits is lesson 4.1.
18+ across Chile · Play responsibly · the help box is further up this page
- Catálogo de Juegos (Ruleta francesa y americana) · Superintendencia de Casinos de JuegoThe regulator’s rules for the wheel tables: bets, colour chips, payouts and what a zero does to even-money bets.
- Funcionamiento de los juegos: Juegos de ruleta · Superintendencia de Casinos de JuegoThe regulator’s plain-language page on roulette: which wheels are allowed, the “no más apuestas” call and approved equipment.
How it’s worked out
Rules, numbers, sources and hosts
Where the rules come from. The three wheels, their pockets, their layouts, their payouts and what a zero does are sections II.1 and II.2 of the national catalogue of games, one set of rules for every casino in Chile. Which casino runs which wheel is not on any casino page we read: the pages name the game, not its zeros, so this page names no casino’s wheel.
Numbers. The price of every bet that covers numbers comes from the one table of bets this site computes with, the same table the house edge tool uses: the pockets of the wheel, the numbers the chip covers and the figure it is paid. The price of an even-money bet counts what a zero does to it: half the chip lost, by the catalogue’s rule; on the French wheel, the whole chip kept for one more spin, freed if that spin falls on its side and lost otherwise, which we count over the two spins; and the whole chip lost, as Enjoy’s page says. Each of these is checked against a count of every pocket when the page is built. Nothing is typed in by hand.
What is deliberately absent. The French layout also has bets on two dozens or two columns at once, and bets called aloud by name; this page does not price them. No document we read prints how many spins a wheel makes in an hour, so there is no price of an hour, and the order of the numbers around the wheel is not drawn.
Sources. Every rule on this page carries a button with the sentence it rests on, in the catalogue’s own Spanish or the casino page’s, the publisher who wrote that sentence and the date we read it.
Hosts. Leo and Maya are illustrated characters. Their backstories, a former dealer and a former floor supervisor, are written for the course: neither is a real person, and neither speaks for any casino. The rules and numbers on this page come from the sources it cites, not from their experience.
No promise. Every chip on every wheel has a price. Knowing which wheel you are at lets you choose what you pay; nothing on this page changes where the ball stops, and nothing here says how an evening at the wheel would end.
One zero or two
La Ruleta Americana con un cero significa que tiene, entre las suertes o posibilidades, el signo de un cero.Free translation: American Roulette with one zero means that, among its outcomes or possibilities, it has the sign of a zero.
La Ruleta Americana con doble cero significa que tiene, entre las suertes o posibilidades, el signo de un cero y además un doble cero.Free translation: American Roulette with double zero means that, among its outcomes or possibilities, it has the sign of one zero and also a double zero.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
En la categoría Ruleta se pueden desarrollar los juegos Ruleta Francesa, Ruleta Americana (modalidades Ruleta Americana con un cero y Ruleta americana con doble cero) y Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna.Free translation: In the Roulette category, the games French Roulette, American Roulette (variants American Roulette with one zero and American Roulette with double zero) and Big Six or Wheel of Fortune may be offered.
Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SCJ) · Funcionamiento de los juegos: Juegos de ruleta · read
A single number pays 35 to 1
Pleno o Número Completo 1 número 35 veces su posturaFree translation: Straight-up bet or Full Number 1 number 35 times your wager
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
One zero against two
Single-zero roulette (single number bet): EV = (+35)(1/37) + (–1)(36/37) = –0.027 (House Advantage = 2.7%)Double-zero roulette (single number bet): EV = (+35)(1/38) + (–1)(37/38) = –0.053 (House Advantage = 5.3%)UNLV Gaming Studies Research Center · Hannum, Casino Math Guide: A Guide to Casino Mathematics · read
The five-number bet
Sólo existe una posibilidad que es: (0, 00, 1, 2, 3).Free translation: There is only one possibility, which is: (0, 00, 1, 2, 3).
Línea Especial o Sexta 5 números 6 veces su posturaFree translation: Special Line or Sexta 5 numbers 6 times your wager
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
The catalogue on a zero
Si sale el cero (0) y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla pierde la mitad de su apuesta.Free translation: If the zero (0) comes up and the player has bet on an even-money bet, they lose half of their bet.
Si sale el doble cero (00) y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla pierde la mitad de su apuesta.Free translation: If the double zero (00) comes up and the player has bet on an even-money bet, they lose half of their bet.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Enjoy’s page on a zero
En caso que el número ganador sea el cero (o doble cero):Free translation: If the winning number is zero (or double zero):
Todas las docenas, columnas y suertes sencillas pierden.Free translation: All dozens, columns and even-money bets lose.
Enjoy (Enjoy Casino & Resort) · Mesas de juego — Ruleta Americana · read
Prison on the French wheel
Si sale el cero (0) por primera vez y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla, se ofrecen dos soluciones:Free translation: If the zero (0) comes up for the first time and the player has bet on an even-money bet, two options are offered:
Retirar la mitad de su apuesta, perdiendo la otra mitadFree translation: Withdraw half of the bet, losing the other half
Dejar la totalidad de su apuesta en "prisión" esperando la siguiente tirada de la bolita.Free translation: Leave the entire bet in "prison" awaiting the next spin of the ball.
recobra su “libertad”, es decir, no se paga la apuesta y tampoco se pierde, quedando nula.Free translation: it regains its "freedom", that is, the bet is not paid and is not lost either, remaining void.
Si no sale el cero (0), y la apuesta no es ganadora, el jugador pierde su apuesta.Free translation: If the zero (0) does not come up, and the bet is not a winner, the player loses their bet.
Si sale el cero (0) por segunda vez el jugador pierde su apuesta.Free translation: If the zero (0) comes up a second time, the player loses their bet.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
One zero or two
La Ruleta Americana con un cero significa que tiene, entre las suertes o posibilidades, el signo de un cero.Free translation: American Roulette with one zero means that, among its outcomes or possibilities, it has the sign of a zero.
La Ruleta Americana con doble cero significa que tiene, entre las suertes o posibilidades, el signo de un cero y además un doble cero.Free translation: American Roulette with double zero means that, among its outcomes or possibilities, it has the sign of one zero and also a double zero.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
En la categoría Ruleta se pueden desarrollar los juegos Ruleta Francesa, Ruleta Americana (modalidades Ruleta Americana con un cero y Ruleta americana con doble cero) y Big Six o Rueda de la Fortuna.Free translation: In the Roulette category, the games French Roulette, American Roulette (variants American Roulette with one zero and American Roulette with double zero) and Big Six or Wheel of Fortune may be offered.
Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SCJ) · Funcionamiento de los juegos: Juegos de ruleta · read
The French wheel
En el extremo de la mesa se encuentra el cilindro o rueda, en el cual se ubican 37 casillas, enumeradas del 1 al 36, además de un cero.Free translation: At the end of the table is the cylinder or wheel, which has 37 pockets, numbered from 1 to 36, plus a zero.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
The American wheel
se ubican 37 casillas, enumeradas del 1 al 36, además de un cero en la modalidad con un cero y de dos ceros en la modalidad con doble cero.Free translation: there are 37 pockets, numbered from 1 to 36, plus a zero in the single-zero version and two zeros in the double-zero version.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Thirty-eight pockets
Consiste en hacer la apuesta en uno de cualquiera de los 36 números, el cero (0) y el doble cero (00).Free translation: It consists of placing the bet on any one of the 36 numbers, the zero (0) or the double zero (00).
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
The wheel is divided into 38 even sectors, numbered 1–36, plus 0 and 00 (in Europe, the wheel is divided into 37 sections, 1–36 plus 0).
The same principles
El funcionamiento de la variedad americana de la ruleta responde a los mismos principios que rigen la ruleta llamada francesa.Free translation: The operation of the American variety of roulette follows the same principles that govern the so-called French roulette.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
More numbers covered, a smaller payout
All these bets pay the same, 36 for one (35 to one) divided by the number of numbers covered by the bet.
Pleno o Número Completo 1 número 35 veces su posturaFree translation: Straight-up bet or Full Number 1 number 35 times your wager
Medio pleno o Semi-pleno o Caballo 2 números 17 veces su posturaFree translation: Split or Half straight-up or Semi-pleno or Caballo 2 numbers 17 times your wager
Fila transversal o calle 3 números 11 veces su posturaFree translation: Transversal row or street 3 numbers 11 times your wager
Cuadro o cuadra 4 números 8 veces su posturaFree translation: Square or corner 4 numbers 8 times your wager
Línea o Seisena o Doble Fila Transversal 6 números 5 veces su posturaFree translation: Line or Seisena or Double Transversal Row 6 numbers 5 times your wager
Docena 12 números 2 veces su posturaFree translation: Dozen 12 numbers 2 times your wager
Suertes Sencillas 18 números 1 vez la posturaFree translation: Suertes Sencillas (even-money bets) 18 numbers 1 time the wager
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Both sides or one
La diferencia que existe entre ambas es que el paño de juego de la Ruleta Americana tiene dispuestas las suertes sencillas (Negro/ Rojo, Par/ Impar, Mayor/ Menor) en un sólo lado del mismo, y en cambio la Ruleta Francesa las tiene dispuestas en ambos.Free translation: The difference between the two is that the playing layout of Ruleta Americana has the even-money bets (Black/Red, Even/Odd, High/Low) arranged on only one side of it, whereas Ruleta Francesa has them arranged on both.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Money chips on the French wheel
Los jugadores hacen sus apuestas colocando el importe de las mismas en fichas de dinero en los respectivos casilleros marcados en el paño para cada una de las figuras o suertes.Free translation: Players place their bets by placing the amount of them in money chips on the respective boxes marked on the layout for each of the figures or bets.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
A colour for each player
En la Ruleta Americana a los jugadores se les asigna un color determinado de ficha, que es el que utilizan durante el juego. Al inicio de su juego definen el valor que tiene el color de su ficha, denominada ficha de juego.Free translation: In Ruleta Americana players are assigned a particular chip color, which is the one they use during the game. At the start of their play they define the value of the color of their chip, called the playing chip.
Cada jugador debe realizar sus apuestas con fichas de un color distinto o con fichas de valor de una sola denominación.Free translation: Each player must place their bets with chips of a different color or with chips of a single denomination.
No se permite jugar a dos jugadores con un mismo color o con fichas de valor de una misma denominación.Free translation: Two players are not allowed to play with the same color or with chips of the same denomination.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Money chips at an American table
los jugadores pueden optar por usar fichas de dinero y no de color, caso en el cual deben elegir fichas de una sola denominaciónFree translation: players may choose to use money chips rather than color chips, in which case they must choose chips of a single denomination
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Five numbers
Sólo existe una posibilidad que es: (0, 00, 1, 2, 3).Free translation: There is only one possibility, which is: (0, 00, 1, 2, 3).
Línea Especial o Sexta 5 números 6 veces su posturaFree translation: Special Line or Sexta 5 numbers 6 times your wager
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
What casino pages call the game
RULETA AMERICANAEnjoy (Enjoy Casino & Resort) · Mesas de juego — Ruleta Americana · read
Disfruta de los clásicos Black Jack y Ruleta AmericanaFree translation: Enjoy the classics Black Jack and Ruleta Americana
What the room posts
Los montos mínimos y máximos de las apuestas si los hay, son los que hayan sido determinados por la sociedad operadora del casino de juegos en el plan de apuestas, previa aprobación de la Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego.Free translation: The minimum and maximum bet amounts, if any, are those determined by the operating company of the gaming casino in the betting plan, subject to prior approval by the Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego.
Dichos montos deberán ser informados en las salas de juego, a través de la señalización correspondiente respecto de cada juego.Free translation: Those amounts must be posted in the gaming rooms, by means of the corresponding signage for each game.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Los montos de las apuestas de cada juego deben ser informados en las salas de juego.Free translation: The bet amounts for each game must be posted in the gaming rooms.
Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SCJ) · Funcionamiento de los juegos: Juegos de ruleta · read
The price of a wheel with one zero
Single-zero roulette (single number bet): EV = (+35)(1/37) + (–1)(36/37) = –0.027 (House Advantage = 2.7%)UNLV Gaming Studies Research Center · Hannum, Casino Math Guide: A Guide to Casino Mathematics · read
The price of a wheel with two zeros
Double-zero roulette (single number bet): EV = (+35)(1/38) + (–1)(37/38) = –0.053 (House Advantage = 5.3%)UNLV Gaming Studies Research Center · Hannum, Casino Math Guide: A Guide to Casino Mathematics · read
Half back on a zero
Si sale el cero (0) y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla pierde la mitad de su apuesta.Free translation: If the zero (0) comes up and the player has bet on an even-money bet, they lose half of their bet.
Si sale el doble cero (00) y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla pierde la mitad de su apuesta.Free translation: If the double zero (00) comes up and the player has bet on an even-money bet, they lose half of their bet.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Prison on the French wheel
Si sale el cero (0) por primera vez y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla, se ofrecen dos soluciones:Free translation: If the zero (0) comes up for the first time and the player has bet on an even-money bet, two options are offered:
Retirar la mitad de su apuesta, perdiendo la otra mitadFree translation: Withdraw half of the bet, losing the other half
Dejar la totalidad de su apuesta en "prisión" esperando la siguiente tirada de la bolita.Free translation: Leave the entire bet in "prison" awaiting the next spin of the ball.
recobra su “libertad”, es decir, no se paga la apuesta y tampoco se pierde, quedando nula.Free translation: it regains its "freedom", that is, the bet is not paid and is not lost either, remaining void.
Si no sale el cero (0), y la apuesta no es ganadora, el jugador pierde su apuesta.Free translation: If the zero (0) does not come up, and the bet is not a winner, the player loses their bet.
Si sale el cero (0) por segunda vez el jugador pierde su apuesta.Free translation: If the zero (0) comes up a second time, the player loses their bet.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
The catalogue on a zero
Si sale el cero (0) y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla pierde la mitad de su apuesta.Free translation: If the zero (0) comes up and the player has bet on an even-money bet, they lose half of their bet.
Si sale el doble cero (00) y el jugador ha apostado sobre una suerte sencilla pierde la mitad de su apuesta.Free translation: If the double zero (00) comes up and the player has bet on an even-money bet, they lose half of their bet.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
A zero and the bets that do not cover it
Si sale el cero (0) y el jugador ha apostado a otras apuestas que no cubren el cero (0), pierde su apuesta.Free translation: If the zero (0) comes up and the player has placed other bets that do not cover the zero (0), they lose their bet.
Si sale el doble cero (00) y el jugador ha apostado a otras apuestas que no cubre el doble cero (00), pierde su apuesta.Free translation: If the double zero (00) comes up and the player has placed other bets that do not cover the double zero (00), they lose their bet.
Section I. Cuestiones generales; II.1 Ruleta francesa; II.2 Ruleta americana
Enjoy’s page on a zero
En caso que el número ganador sea el cero (o doble cero):Free translation: If the winning number is zero (or double zero):
Todas las docenas, columnas y suertes sencillas pierden.Free translation: All dozens, columns and even-money bets lose.
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The zero rule and the price
This rule, that outside bets lose when 0 or 00 comes up, varies somewhat between casinos and, in particular, between the US and Europe.
Sometimes only half of the outside bet is lost, with the remainder being paid directly to the player.
In other casinos, the outside bet is held “in prison.”
These rule variations impact the house advantage in the game.