Roulette Games
Put the term "roulette games" into Google and click search and you'll
come up with links to all sorts of free Roulette simulations. Free online
roulette is offered by all online casinos for the sake of entertainment,
practice, and exhibition of the gaming options at an Internet gambling
website.
Free roulette games also are offered by non-casino gambling websites for the sake of information, instruction, or practice. These help you learn the game of roulette so you don't feel like a goof the first time you play roulette live or online for money. In fact, the free roulette instructional games let you learn roulette betting and how bets are paid in a fun, yet educational, way.
Roulette Games for Free
For
instance, one of the first roulette games offered on Google is by the Europe
Casino, one of the leading online casino websites. You'll see an offer to
let you play roulette for free with fake money (essentially Monopoly money),
along with other offers to instruct you in playing casino gambling's #1
casino game using a wheel (there are others hardly played anymore). Almost
immediately, you'll see a graphic come up ask if you want to play for real
money, and offering a significant bonus if you do.
All you have to do is click that graphic off or click no and you can start your roulette simulation. This gives you a good idea what playing on a real roulette table inside the Europa Casino is going to be like. The interface looks the same. The point-and-click aspect is the same. It's browser-based, so that's going to be different, but a lot of what you can expect is going to be there. There is one exception I'd like to point out, though.
Free Roulette - Easy Roulette
I'm not saying this is the case with Europa Casino, but the freeroll games on many online casino game simulations seem to be easy. That is, you win a lot. As I mentioned earlier, this is Monopoly money we're talking about, so it's easy-come, easy-go for both you and the casino.
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, so why would the game be set to make roulette look easy?
You probably already know the answer to that question. If you are having big success on the roulette simulation for free, it's only natural for you to think, "Hey, I'm on a hot streak. Why don't I deposit some money and do this for real while my luck holds?" So a player deposits money, plays against real odds, and may or may not win.
Simulated Roulette - Dirty Tactics?
You might say freebie roulette simulations set to let you win are dirty pool, but it could be our imagination at work here. Once again, I'm not saying any casino is doing that, but in the latest simulation I kept playing, I kept winning all my long-odds bets, while losing my even-money bets. I was up 83 UK pounds within 2 or 3 minutes. Granted, I was betting like British sterling was going out of style, but that's the way it always seems to be with the gambling tutorials.
Roulette Tutorials
The thing is, while it may or may not be bad practice, the practice doesn't hurt you if you understand that the game is there to drive customers to the website. If you know the facts and don't fall prey to the ploy, there's value in using the interface for your own purposes. Every minute on the minute in my recent free online roulette session, the pop-up continued to pop up and offer me a bonus. I eventually navigated away from the page, when I had done what I wanted to do and got tired of fighting against the pop-up ad.
Free Roulette Games for Practice
So do these roulette games have any value?
I say yes. You can use them for what you imagine them to be: a practice game and tutorial. If you don't know how to bet in roulette, use a free game on an online casino site to figure out how to bet. Use the free games to learn how to use the interface, where all the bets are, and get a general idea of how payouts are assigned and where your bankroll can be found. These virtual roulette games for free are perfectly good for helping you learn how to play Internet roulette.
Just know that roulette games for free have no correlation to the odds you're facing when you deposit your money in an electronic casino (or walk into a live casino) and plop your money down for real. In the practice roulette games, the odds are stacked heavily in your favor. In the real games of roulette for real money, the odds are stacked slightly in the casino's favor. That's how they stay in business.
