Roulette at Rainbet: choosing a wheel and placing bets

What roulette tables does Rainbet have?

Rainbet roulette is available in three formats. Pragmatic Play provides the dealer and auto wheels in the live lobby, and Rainbet's own Roulette appears in the Originals list.

How much do the zeros matter?

On a roulette wheel the green pockets decide the house edge. With a single zero the wheel has 37 pockets and a house edge of 2.70%. With a double zero it has 38 pockets and an edge of 5.26%. A single number pays 35 to 1 on both, so the extra pocket is simply a cost to the player.

Every table displays its wheel type before you bet. Look at it first, because no betting pattern can make up for a second zero.

What bets are available?

Roulette bets come in two groups: inside bets cover single numbers and outside bets cover groups of numbers.

Outside bets win often but pay little, while inside bets win seldom but pay a lot. Both carry the same house edge, so the pick changes how a session feels and has no effect on the long-run cost.

What is the difference between auto and mega wheels?

No dealer works an auto wheel. A machine spins a real wheel, and rounds are shorter. Rainbet Speed Auto Roulette is the fast version, and Rainbet Auto Mega Roulette is an automatic wheel as well, with its rules shown on the table. Go through those rules before the first spin, since the table's own rules set what each bet pays.

Is it possible to verify a roulette spin?

Only in the in-house game. Roulette is among the 15 Rainbet Originals, which Rainbet lists as provably fair. The way Originals results are checked is explained on Rainbet provably fair.

Rainbet also describes a multiplayer game called EOS Roulette, which takes its randomness from EOS blockchain blocks. Live and auto roulette aren't listed as provably fair, so you watch them instead of verifying them.

Is there a betting system that works at roulette?

None of them changes the house edge. Spins are independent of each other, and a streak of reds says nothing about the next pocket. If you double up after a loss, the size of your bets changes while the odds stay put, and a balance can run out quickly.

Sticking to a fixed budget does more for you than a system. Work out what the session will cost before the first spin.

What happens in a live roulette round?

1. Betting opens, and you put chips on the layout.
2. The wheel is spun and the ball released, by the dealer or by the machine on an auto wheel.
3. Betting stops a short time after the spin begins.
4. The ball settles, the winning number appears and the bets are paid out.

In software and in-house versions no shared betting window exists, so you play each round at your own speed.

How does your choice of bet shape a session?

The bet you pick decides how uneven the session is. Picture two players with the same budget on a single-zero wheel. The first backs red on every spin and wins nearly half the time, so the balance moves slowly. The second backs a single number each spin and wins once every 37 spins on average, so the balance falls steadily and then jumps.

The edge on every chip is the same 2.70% for both. Putting chips on many numbers in one spin does not alter it either. It just swaps a better chance of a small win for a smaller chance of a big one.

How should you budget for roulette?

• Before starting, set the session total and the size of a single bet.
• Do not change the bet size, and in particular do not raise it after a loss.
• Keep count of spins, since a fast wheel can run more than sixty an hour.
• Stop at the limit you set, whether you are ahead or behind.

Where to go next

Every streamed wheel is listed on Rainbet live casino, and the in-house games are on Rainbet Originals.