Roulette for Money
Real Money Roulette
If you've been thinking about playing roulette online at a casino
website, then you may have been playing roulette for free at one of the many
roulette simulation games found seemingly everywhere on the Internet. Having
learned the ropes of online gambling, you may be ready to play roulette for
money.
Real Money Gambling on Roulette
You'll find gambling for real money a little different than playing for kicks. For one, your betting decisions are going to be a lot more serious. Many of those gambling sites give you $5,000 or more in fake money when playing a gaming simulator. You might bet a load of money which you'd never wager in real life--two or three thousand dollars a pop.
Gambling
on roulette for real money is a completely different beast. Every spin takes
on an added weight, since you are betting your hard-earned money that you
probably spent hours earning. There's no "easy come, easy go" attitude.
Roulette Betting and the House Edge
There's another factor--the house comes into the game with a huge edge. You might think from playing the roulette simulator that you have not only the software and play-through figured out, but the strategy figured out, too. You might think you're on a hot streak.
The hot streak in the free roulette games are there for a reason. It's an incentive to get you to deposit money into an account and start playing roulette for real. The odds are highly in your favor in the virtual roulette game for free, to build up your confidence. Those odds go against you (though not as radically) when you start to play for real money.
That's because there is a real house edge or expected value in online roulette, just as their is in live roulette. You can expect to lose $5.26 for every $100.00 wagered in an American Roulette game (live or online), while you can expect to lose $2.63 for every $100.00 wagered in a European Roulette game (maybe less, if you get the right en prison or la partage rules).
Downloading Software - Online Roulette
With that in mind, here's how to start playing roulette for money online. It's going to be the same routine at every Internet casino you navigate to, so find the one with the right combination of fun games and good promotions, and start downloading the casino software.
Go either to the roulette page on the site you want to play on, or the casino download page on the same website. Click on the "download casino" or "download roulette" link, which should initiate the software download process. This casino software lets you interface with the casino, play the games you want to play, and make the necessary deposits or withdrawals. You can also play in the browser, but it's usually quicker in the long run to download the software package, which should only take a moment.
Make a Deposit - Roulette Tips
Next, you'll need to make an initial deposit at the online casino, so you can bet money. Carefully read over the welcome bonus terms and condition, to make sure you don't make a gaff that costs you your bonus money. Many casinos have rigid terms and conditions which limit the games you can play and stipulate a certain number of playthroughs, so make sure you understand what these are, to avoid confusion or lost gambling revenue.
Once you understand the casino terms, make the deposit you want to make. At this point, you should be able to navigate to the roulette page and start playing Roulette for money.
Roulette Wagers and Roulette Odds
If the online casino offers both European Roulette and American Roulette, always play the European money. The only thing you'll miss in the European game is the 00 slot, which makes your odds go way down. If you play the American version of the game, you're simply throwing $2.63 of every $100 you wager away.
Some U.S. players prefer to play the American version of roulette, sometimes called double-zero roulette, because they don't have to make decisions on exotic sounding game elements like "la partage" and "en prison". Both of these are real simple rules designed to benefit the player, so don't let that scare you off. En prison means, when you make an even-money bet (on odd/even, for example) and the number comes up "0", you have the option to either lose half your bet and take the other half bet, or let the wager ride on the outcome of the next spin--winning back your stake (but no payouts) in case of a win, and losing your stake if you lose.
The la partage rules are even simpler. You take back 1/2 of your initial bet, with no option to let the bet ride. That's it--you get extra back in la partage French Roulette. If you're going to be playing roulette for money, you might as well get a little bit extra of that money back for yourself.
