The name roulette is derived from a term meaning "little wheel" though it's often called "the Devil's game" because the numbers on the wheel add up to 666
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American roulette wheels have two green squares (zero and double zero) whereas European wheels have only one. The extra square nearly doubles the house edge
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In 2012, a wheel at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas allegedly hit the number 19 seven consecutive times. The odds of this occurring are 3 billion to 1
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In 2004, the "Ritz Gang" pocketed £1.3 million using a laser scanner to calculate where the ball would fall. Though discovered, the vague rules concerning cheating this way allowed them to keep thei
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The first roulette wheel might be credited to Blaise Pascal, a 17th century mathematician who was actually try to build a perpetual motion machine
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The frets that separate each pocket are also made intentionally springy. If you can find any dead frets (those that aren't springy) you can improve your chances of winning. An uneven table can help