Roulette Unfolded

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The History of Roulette

The green velvet top table, the numbered pockets, the spinning wheel of fortune and sweet tongued croupier, isn’t that all very familiar? The small white ball bounces on the pockets and so does the hearts within our cages. The charm-and-luck lady on the men’s shoulders and the gasps, soon as the ball settles down on a pocket. Cigars being lit after a win the chips cashed – that’s roulette for you. The roulette table, over time has become the most significant symbols of the casino and hence gambling.

It is hard to believe that it was the 17th century French mathematical genius, Blaise Pascal, always fascinated by perpetual motion machines, who initially created the precursor of roulette.

Roulette is French for a small wheel. Frenchmen François and Louis Blanc, in 1842 added another pocket for 0 to increase the odds. Roulette reached the states in approximately 1800. The American casino establishments, during the same time, added another pocket with 00 in it to further increase the odds and hence the house profits. The double zero was also replaced by an American Eagle. In the same century it spread across all over Europe and America and was an instant success by all standards wooing the human emotion of making a quick buck.

There is a legend that François Blanc bargained with the devil to obtain the secrets of roulette. The legend is based on the fact that all the numbers on the roulette wheel (from 1 to 36) added together results in "666", which is the "Number of the Beast”.

There is also a theory that the roulette was originally rooted in China, going back to an old Chinese game whose object was to arrange 37 statuettes of animals in a "magic square" of 666.

And then came Online Roulette - to make Roulette more attractive and more accessible..........

Then they made gambling possible online through computer systems and along with the other popular games, roulette also found its way to numerous households through the usual mesh of servers and other computer systems.

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