Streak Side Bets

Streak bets: Prime Time and Roulette Rage

Prime Time pays by the number of prime numbersmathPrime numberA whole number above 1 that only 1 and itself divide exactly: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 and so on.Read full → spun in a row (eleven of the 36 numbers are prime): 1 to 1 for one, rising to 299 to 1 for seven. Its edge is 7.22%. Roulette Rage, approved in UK casinos and in Mississippi, pays on a run of one color, counted from the spin after the color changes. Its minimum approved pay tablemoneyPay tableThe list of what each bet or result pays. On machines and side bets, it is where the house edge is set.Read full → runs from 5 to 1 for four in a row to 2,000 to 1 for fourteen, and costs 17.00%. An approved alternative pays 6, 10, 20 and 30 to 1 for runs of four to seven and brings the edge down to 4.61%. Short runs are where the probabilitymathProbabilityChance of an outcome, from 0 to 1 or 0% to 100%. One number: 1/37 = 2.70%.Read full → is: a table that is generous on long runs and mean on short ones is a 17% bet with a 2,000-to-1 headline.

Probability of Streaks

Rainbow: a run of new colors

INAG’s Rainbow bet replaced its Riverboat Roulette in 2015. Each row of three on the layoutequipmentLayoutThe printed betting grid on the table. Also: table, felt, cloth.Read full → gets a second color, shown as a ring round the number: blue 1–3, pink 4–6, purple 10–12, teal 13–15, lime 19–21, orange 22–24, yellow 28–30 and brown 31–33, with the other four rows white. The bet is that three or more different colors come up in a row before a white number, a 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 → or a repeated color. Fourteen pocketsequipmentPocketOne of the 37 numbered compartments on the rotor. Also: slot, cup.Read full → end a run at once, and every new color leaves fewer ways to go on: by the eighth color, only 3 pockets in 38 would. Stakes are collected up front and the pay table is “for 1”.

Touchdown Roulette: a football game in four spins

Interblock installed the first Touchdown Roulette at the Borgata in Atlantic City in June 2013, as a side betbetSide betAn optional extra wager attached to the main game, usually on a streak, a bonus event or a jackpot. Almost always dearer than the standard bets.Read full → on an electronic double-zero game. The bet loses at once unless the next spin is 0 or 00, which happens 2 spins in 38. Then a football game starts. You take the redbetRedEven-money bet on the 18 red numbers. French: rouge.Read full → team or the blackbetBlackEven-money bet on the 18 black numbers. French: noir.Read full → one, and each of the next four spins moves the football from midfield toward the end of the color spun. Ordinary roulette carries on meanwhile, and no new Touchdown bets are taken until the game is over.

Where the ball stops

After four plays the payoutmoneyPayoutWhat a winning bet returns, quoted as “X to 1” on top of the returned stake.Read full → depends on where the football is. A touchdown needs 50 net yards in your color: four 15-yard plays, three 15s and a 5 or a 10, or two 15s and two 10s. That is 2,511 chances in 2,085,136, about 1 game in 830. Some spots cannot be reached at all: no four plays leave the football on a 6-yard line. A game that ends at midfield pays both teams 5 to 1, and the team that finishes behind is paid even money, so every bet that reaches the game wins something, 16.29 unitsmoneyUnitThe base stake a system or a player works in. Progressions are described in units so they apply at any table.Read full → per unit on average. It is not enough. With 36 instant losses in 38, the bet costs 9.00%. A European version starts the game on 0 or on a number that repeats the spin before, so it too loses at once about 35 spins in 37. By our count of every game on a single-zero wheel, it costs about 4.8%, half the double-zero price.

2G’$: from 2.77% to 22.16%

Caesars Entertainment sells 2G’$ as “Roulette’s Best Bet”: green on two spins in a row. It first appeared in 2020 at the Gold Coast, off the Strip, paying 350 to 1 on double-zero tables. Two greens in a row on 38 pockets is a chance of 1 in 361, so at 350 to 1 it cost 2.77%, less than any other bet on the table. In 2025, at Caesars’ Las Vegas casinos, it paid 280 to 1, which costs 22.16%, and 130 to 1 on triple-zero tables, 22.49%. The name stayed the same; the price went up eightfold.

Las Vegas WheelsTriple Zero Roulette

2G’$: one bet, many prices

Nevada’s rules for 2G’$ show how a casino picks its price. The bet is settled over one or two spins: if the first is not green it loses at once, and if it is, the next spin decides. The rules approve nine pay tables for double-zero wheels, from 270 to 1 up to 350 to 1 in steps of 10, and thirteen for single-zero wheels, from 1,050 to 1 up to 1,350 to 1 in steps of 25. On a single-zero wheel two greens in a row come once in 1,369 bets, so even the best table, 1,350 to 1, keeps 1.31%, half the 2.70% of the main bets, while the worst keeps 23.23%. Each step of 25 moves the edge by 1.83 points, and each step of 10 on a double-zero wheel by 2.77. The bet looks the same on the layout at every price; only the sign at the table says which one you are playing.

Back2Back: the same number twice

Back2Back, seen at the Atlantis in Reno in 2019, is a bet that the next two spins both land on your number. It pays 1,200 to 1. On a double-zero wheel the chance is 1 in 38 × 38 = 1,444, so the bet costs 16.83%. The Wizard of Odds points out that the plain layout does better. Put $1 on the number, and if it wins let the $36 ride on the next spin. Two hits in a row then bring back $1,296, a payout of 1,295 to 1, and the whole run costs 10.25%, the price of two ordinary spins. The side bet sells the same thing for less. 2G’$, which bets on two greens in a row, works the same way.

Straights and 8’s: three spins

Straights and 8’s, from Aces Up Gaming, was dealt in Colorado casinos from 2017. It is settled over the next three spins and pays only the best result: 8, 18 and 28 in any order; three numbers in a row in any order; three numbers ending in 8 with a repeat; or, from the first two spins alone, two numbers in a row, two ending in 8, or two that are two apart. A 0 or 00 on either of the first two spins loses. There were four pay tables, for single- and double-zero wheels.

What the working shows

Each bet on this page was priced the same way: list the results, multiply each by its chance, add.

• A bet that loses at once most of the time needs very large prizes to break even. Touchdown pays something on every game it reaches and still costs 9%.
• When the top prize is the only prize, as in 2G’$, a cut to it moves the price a long way: from 350 to 280 to 1 multiplied the cost by eight.
• Before buying a run of wins as a side bet, price the one you can make yourself: letting a straight upbetStraight upA single number, pays 35:1.Read full → ride beats Back2Back.
• Check whether a pay table says “to 1” or “for 1” before you compare it with another.

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