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Roulette is one of the most famous games in online casino, it is being played by many players all over the world. However, the origin of this game is not clear. It is thought that it probably emerged in the 17th century, then it passed through several stages to form several versions like American Roulette,European Roulette. The trend of online roulette for real money was introduced at Inter Casino back in 1996 and then it gained a massive popularity, many famous online game providers started to design new versions of the roulette with different variants to give a more vital experience.

The Earliest History Of Roulette

Roulette is one of the oldest games in the history of Casino.it has a great popularity among a wide range of Casino players. Many researchers suggest that the origin of Roulette goes back to the days of Myths and old believes when Gods of fate used to roll the wheel of fate to decide the fate of people, other believed that it was derived from English Even/Odd games or from the Italian Biribi game. But it is widely believed that it was invented by the French scientist Blaise Pascal back in the 17th century, where he was trying to invent a perpetual motion machine. However, the fortune’s wheel did not have any zero in its design until a special zero pocket was added later by two brothers François and Louis Blanc who introduced this version in France back in 1843. While American Roulette was created later around the 19th century when Americans added a new zero pocket to the game to double the amount of earnings from this game. In General, until around 1900, all history documents called the Roulette game with 38 numbers “Italian Roulette” or “Big Roulette” and the one with 18 numbers “German Roulette” or “Small Roulette”.

The Spread Of Roulette Throughout The World

In fact, there are so many theories that suggest the origin of this game. However it is widely believed that it first appeared on the hands of François and Louis Blanc when they opened their first Casino in Monte Carlo city, introducedtheir game to the public which was later known as the European Roulette, when King Louis XV tried to ban gambling in France, the two brothers moved their casino from France to Germany in order to introduce their Version of the game to the people of Germany. The roulette did not only flourish in Europe, but it found its way to America on the hands of the French migrants who went to New Orleans around the 19th century, but it was not so popular because people did not earn much of it thus they tried to reform this game by adding a new zero pocket to the game to add a higher house edge, thus it became more popular, this version became what is known nowadays by the American Roulette which is widely dominant in Canada, the Caribbean and south America. While the single zero version of Roulette “European Roulette” is predominant in the rest areas of the world.

Roulette Game Nowadays

The spread of Casinos during the first era of the twentieth century was not huge, where there was only a casino in Monte Carlo which had the European Roulette and a Casino in Las Vegas which had the American Roulette, but it flourished later in the era of the 70’s and then in the era of the internet which lead to a new version of the Roulette game along with the emerging of online Casinos. The internet technology made new changes to the Roulette game when online games providers started to release new titles like Mini Roulette and Multi Ball Roulette as to providing other titles for live casino. However, roulette game proved to be a game of brain and mathematical calculations in which you can easily calculate the speed of the ball and the roulette wheel in order to know the precise timing of the dealer in which the dealer throws the ball in it in order to place the appropriate bet on the winning number and thus to win in this game, so if you were of those brains in mathematic calculation, all you have to do is to make some calculations to gain profits in this game.

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