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A Short History of the Devil's Game
In casinos, roulette is a gambling game that many people enjoy playing a great deal. The word "roulette" means "little wheel" in French, and much like its name suggests; the game of roulette involves a spinning wheel, with thirty-six numbered pockets set in an alternating black and red pattern. In today's casinos, there are two different kinds of roulette. The American form of roulette has a total of thirty-eight numbered pockets, with two green pockets, numbered zero and double zero. In the European form of roulette, there is only one green pocket, with only one zero; giving European roulette wheels a total of thirty-seven numbered pockets. In a roulette game, a person bets on a number, color, number and color combination, or set of numbers. A person wins when the ball that the croupier -or casino employee- drops, lands in a pocket that the player had wagered on.
There are a lot of different forms of gambling games that involve wheels. Roulette is said to be a fusion of the different kinds of wheel games in Europe, such as Roly-Poly, Ace of Hearts, Hoca, Biribi, and E.O., which originated from England and Italy. It is believed that roulette, as a game, was first developed in Paris, France, during the 18th Century. Mention of the game, as it is played today, has been found in a novel written by French author, Jacques Lablee, entitled, "La Roulette ou le Jour." This book was published in 1801, but it describes and makes mention that the game of roulette was played in Paris' Palais Royal in 1796. There is an even earlier reference to this game in the regulations published for what is now known as Canada, but what was once called "New France."
Roulette was spread throughout the United States and Europe during the 1800s, and quickly became one of the most famous and popularly played gambling games in the Western world. In the 1860s, the German government outlawed gambling, and a popular gambling family brought one of the last remaining casinos in Europe to Monte Carlo, which, today, has become a gambling capital for the world. Roulette was one of the most popular games that this casino offered. It was so popular at the time, that roulette eventually came to be known as the "King of Casino Games," and became associated with Monte Carlo and this place's glamour and decadence. Today, there are several hundred -perhaps even several thousand- casinos the world over, and very many of them offer roulette for gamblers and gambling enthusiasts to enjoy.