Triple Zero Roulette

The arithmetic

Three house pocketsequipmentPocketOne of the 37 numbered compartments on the rotor. Also: slot, cup.Read full → out of thirty-nine. Every bet is paid as if there were 36 pockets, so every bet is short by 3/39: 7.69%. Per $10 bet: European −$0.27, American −$0.53, triple 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 → −$0.77. Same game, same layoutequipmentLayoutThe printed betting grid on the table. Also: table, felt, cloth.Read full →, three different prices. The five-number bet stays on the triple-zero layout at 6 to 1. On a wheel of N pockets it brings back 35 unitsmoneyUnitThe base stake a system or a player works in. Progressions are described in units so they apply at any table.Read full → for every N staked, so it costs (N − 35)/N: 7.89% on 38 pockets and 10.26% on 39, the dearest bet on the table. In Interblock’s rules for its electronic triple-zero game, filed in Washington state in 2024, the lowest return listed is 89.74%: this bet.

Where you find it

Introduced on the Las Vegas Strip in 2016 and now common at lower-limit tables there, sometimes with a casino logo or a colored pocket in place of 000. It has spread to some regional US casinos. It is rare outside the United States and absent from live studios serving European markets, where players would compare it with a single-zero table one click away.

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Why it exists

On the wheel, 000 and 00 follow the 0, so the order runs 0, 000, 00, 32, 15 and on as on a European wheel. The reason is the same as for the eagle pocket of the 1800s: a market where the table minimum is the number players compare. A $5 triple-zero table sits beside a $25 double-zero table and a $100 single-zero table. The player who sits at the cheapest table pays the most per dollar wagered. It is a price discrimination scheme that works because the price is written in a language most customers do not read.

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Three zeros, then four

The Venetian’s version carried an S, for its parent company Sands, in the third house pocket. By 2018, Bollman (2021) reports, New York-New York and Planet Hollywood ran 000 wheels and the Luxor had put its pyramid logo in the 39th pocket. The spread has not gone only one way. At the start of September 2025, Wynn and Encore took their triple-zero tables off the floor; the company said it was checking whether its prices matched the value it delivered. A few weeks earlier, the Palazzo had put out a wheel with four gem pockets in place of the zeros, which costs about 10% on the numbers before its bonus wheel gives anything back. Surveys by Vegas Advantage put numbers on the retreat. In May 2026, of the 64 Las Vegas casinos dealing live roulette, four dealt only triple zero: Binion’s, Circus Circus, the Luxor and Slots A Fun. By September 2026, nine casinos had taken out all their triple-zero tables over the previous few years, among them the Rio, the Sahara, Treasure Island, Wynn and Encore. Single zero was cheapest at the Strat, which had turned one table over to it at $15 or $25 a spin; elsewhere in town it started at $50.

The decision

If a single-zero table is available at a stake you can afford, play it at a smaller stake rather than the triple-zero table at a larger one. $5 at 7.69% costs $0.38 a spin; $10 at 2.70% costs $0.27. The “cheaper” table is about 40% dearer while the “expensive” one lets you bet twice as much.

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