Multi-Wheel Roulette

How it works

You place a layoutequipmentLayoutThe printed betting grid on the table. Also: table, felt, cloth.Read full → bet; it is copied to each active wheel. A $1 chipmoneyChipA token representing a fixed amount, placed on the layout to make a bet. Also: check.Read full → on redbetRedEven-money bet on the 18 red numbers. French: rouge.Read full → across six wheels costs $6 and is paid per wheel: each wheel that lands red pays $1, each that lands blackbetBlackEven-money bet on the 18 black numbers. French: noir.Read full → or zerowheelZeroThe single green pocket that no even-money, dozen or column bet covers; the source of the house edge. Also: single zero, 0.Read full → loses $1. The wheels are independent RNG draws (or, rarely, independent physical wheels).

Live vs RNG Roulette

What changes

VariancemathVarianceA measure of how widely results spread around the expected value. High for straight up, low for even-money bets.Read full → per round drops because results average across wheels: six reds or six blacks are rare, three or four are common. TurnovermoneyTurnoverThe total amount wagered over a session or period, counting re-bet winnings. Also: handle, action.Read full → per round rises by the same factor. Expected lossmathExpected lossExpected value times total amount wagered; the average amount lost over a session or a period.Read full → per hour therefore multiplies by the number of wheels at the same chip size. A player who wants six times the action for the same cost should divide the chip by six.

Where you find it

RNG lobbies, as a novelty format. A few live studios have run multi-wheel tables with several physical wheels in frame. It is uncommon on casino floors for obvious reasons of space.

How Live Roulette Works

Two rings, one ball: Double Action

TCS John Huxley’s Double Action Roulette, shown in 2012 and dealt at the M casino in Las Vegas, has two rings of numbers turning separately, so one ballequipmentBallThe small ball launched along the track against the rotor. Modern balls are ivorine or Teflon, 18–21 mm.Read full → gives two results. A bet on one ring is ordinary roulette. A bet on both rings, red on the outer and red on the inner, is two spins in one and pays 3 to 1. It costs 5.33% on a single-zero wheel and 10.25% on a double-zero one, the price of two spins. A dozenbetDozen1–12, 13–24 or 25–36, pays 2:1.Read full → on both rings pays 8 to 1 at the same price. The same number on both rings pays 1,200 to 1; on a single-zero wheel the odds are 1,368 to 1, and the bet costs 12.27%. Bollman (2024) reports that the M paid 18 of these 1,200 to 1 wins in the trial’s first month. The idea is older than it looks: Epstein (2013) records a Double Roulette at Monte Carlo in 1936, two concentric wheels with two balls, which did not last.

Monte Carlo Roulette

Three balls, three numbers: Roulette Express

Gamesys’s online Roulette Express drops three balls on one single-zero wheel, always into three different pocketsequipmentPocketOne of the 37 numbered compartments on the rotor. Also: slot, cup.Read full →. A bet spread across the three balls is ordinary roulette at 2.70%. An Express bet needs all three. Since no number repeats, there are 7,770 possible sets of three, and the counts come from combinations: 816 sets are all red, 220 all in one columnbetColumnTwelve numbers in one vertical column of the layout, pays 2:1.Read full →. Three reds pay 8 to 1 and cost 5.48%; three in a column pay 33 to 1 and cost 3.73%. A “No House EdgemathHouse edgeThe share of each stake the casino keeps on average: 2.70% in European roulette.Read full →” version paid the fair price and took 10% of a session’s net winnings instead.

Who it suits

Players who like smoother results and more things happening per round. It is roulette with the variance turned down and the turnover turned up, which is the opposite of what most system players want and exactly what a casino likes.

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