History of Roulette

Roulette’s origins and popularity started in seventeenth century France, where a French inventor is credited with devising the first version of a spinning roulette wheel. It entranced people and developed into a game where people would bet on what number the ball would stop at.

The game reached a great deal of popularity in France and eventually, it was brought over to New France. Presumably, this is how the game gained popularity in America as America took the traditional French rule-set and developed their own game based on these rules.

Did you know that the earliest versions of roulette had two slots reserved for the house, being both zero and double zero?

Modern European roulette as we know today, was created in Germany and made famous in Monte Carlo. This was done entirely so that the entrepreneurs behind the game could compete with larger casinos, and it worked. The modern game of roulette was born; apart from a few minor variations.

Monte Carlo is perhaps one of the most famous gambling towns in the world apart from Las Vegas. It actually earned it’s notoriety due to the fact it was one of the earliest places where roulette was played.

Monte Carlo became famous purely through chance however. If gambling had not been outlawed in Germany, then the two Frenchinventors responsible for the game, would never have relocated.

Shortly after, the game gained immense popularity throughout Europe and the United States. It soon became one of the earliest and most popular casino table games in existence.

As roulette matured, it earned itself a reputation as the king of casino games. For some reason, the traditional French version with two dealer slots became dominant in America, and it was this version that made its way onto the Mississippi river boats where it was played throughout the country.

It was in America however that the roulette table we know today was developed. Traditionally the roulette wheel was separate from the table, and casinos had constant problems with devices being hidden in the wheel. To prevent this, the game was re-imagined and the wheel was placed on top of a table.

Thus, modern roulette was born.

Today, there are many hundreds of casinos worldwide offering both variations of roulette, both the traditional French version and also the version that was predominantly played in Monte Carlo.

If it wasn’t for roulette, Casinos would never have reached the fame and popularity that they have gained today. In addition, thanks to roulette, the game of Craps was invented, as it was the French as well, thanks to the popularity of roulette, who made this famous dice gamethe way it is today.

Roulette is no longer just a table game, as it has matured way beyond what its creators could ever have imagined. With the age of the Internet, roulette has gained widespread popularity and more players than ever before now enjoy it and profit from the spin of the wheel.