Online Roulette

This website will bring you lots of news, reviews and information on playing the best gambling game in the World. The word roulette is actually derived from the French meaning ‘Little Wheel’. No one is entirely sure who invented the game, but my favorite version is that it was created by Blaise Pascal in the sixteenth century as part of an experiment to discover a perpetual motion machine. One of his friends saw the potential for a gaming machine and hence the origin of the game we love. I’d imagine he’d be pretty amazed to see how we could now play online roulette from our computers.

So Where to Play Roulette on the Web?
There’s certainly a lot of choice, but in my mind the single most important point is that it’s a reputable casino. One that plays fair, pays quickly when you win and has a decent support if you have any problems. There’s still plenty of these but it does cut down the choice significantly.

However I also have a personal preference of live casinos, simply because I don’t want the result worked about by computer software. Unfortunately the majority of live casinos are all very artificial – there’s little atmosphere as they’re specifically set up for the TV cameras, all except one. I first found this casino because I actually played there on a Stag weekend in Dublin

Here’s some screenshots from DublinBet Online roulette.

What you can see is a real casino in Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin. You place your bets at exactly the same time as the other punters and then watch the wheel spin. You’ll see people winning, losing and even occasionally falling off their stool and being escorted off the premises!

You don’t even have to use real money to enjoy the atmosphere – the free game is exactly the same and you play alongside everyone else.  You can access the free game here - Dublin Bet Preview Game

These are results you can trust

Have you ever had that nagging feeling the computer is cheating when you play in any online roulette game? That single time you put a bundle on black and it comes up red.  Now I’m pretty sure most online casinos don’t cheat but it’s still a computer program.

Anyone who has ever played electronic slot machines knows how they can easily adjust payouts.  Ultimately you have to trust the code that runs the game, but not here.    You’ll see the wheel spun by a real croupier, in a real casino alongside the other punters who are physically there.  It’s a great way to test out tactics andsystems and even learn the game.

Anyway although Dublinbet is my personal favorite but of course there are lots of other great ones.  I play on about 4 different roulette sites and you’ll see only those mentioned on this site.   There is though no online roulette game that is as good as the real thing so get out there and visit one,  it’s a great night out.

So for the romantic, the eccentric and thrill seekers amongst us, there is simply no better way to gamble.   This web site is dedicated to the thrill of the game of roulette and how we can play it safely online. Remember roulette is a game of chance, when lady luck is with you she can make you very rich, but there are no guarantees, no certain systems despite what you read online.

You can read all about these systems in this blog, they all sound convincing and people have been losing money to most of them for hundreds of years. The beauty of roulette is it’s simplicity and the transparency of the game. No hidden rules, no bluffing, just the spin of the wheel and wherever it lands determines your fate.

A Word of Caution

Unfortunately this wonderful game has also been targeted by crooks, hackers and thieves so be careful were you play. Stay well clear of HUGE bonuses, anything promoted by spam email or basically anything that sounds too good to be true.  The bonuses will either be non existent (so that you’ll download some virus riddled setup file) or have so many conditions on them that it will be impossible to ever claim.

Roulette is ultimately about randomness, without this then the game is a waste of time. You will notice our bias away from the software based online casinos in this website. Although some of them can be fun, the problem for real gambling is that the randomness is controlled by an RNG (Random Number Generator) which is built into the games software. I prefer my random a little more natural than that – which is why I always prefer live roulette played with a real croupier.

So enjoy this site, we’ll be adding lots of news, stories, mathematics and some interesting stuff about roulette in the near future. Any casinos recommended are based not on bonuses but reliability, support and most importantly fairness of the game. As such you won’t find huge lists of ‘recommended online casinos’ – simply because most of them aren’t that good!!

This Post is also available in German – Wie spielt man Roulette Online ?

Did Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo Unlock the Secrets of Roulette?

Scattered throughout history there are hundred of stories of people who claim to have unlocked the secrets of roulette. Lots of them are so long ago that we have little chance of verifying them – now little more than myths. However there are also quite a few roulette systems that have been developed and used within living memory and there’s often lots of evidence available. In fact the story of Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo has actually been the subject of a lengthy court case brought by several casinos who believed he had been cheating.

Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo was originally a record producer, and apparently not a very successful one – however he had other talents including being a very decent mathematician. Gonzalo also had something of a weakness for the game of roulette. One day the thought occurred to him, quite reasonably in fact, that if a specific roulette wheel was not 100% perfectly random then it was theoretically possible to exploit it. He believed that it was impossible that a wheel could be this perfect and that some level of bias towards certain numbers had to exist – the difficulty was how to spot this bias and use it.

He started to conceive a roulette system that could overturn the house bias in favor of the player. To prove his hypothesis that the wheel favored certain numbers he needed the following -

1- Huge amounts of data on a variety of real roulette wheels.
2- A way of analysing the data to identify any real bias in the spins.

The first step is actually quite easy to achieve although it does involve a huge amount of effort. Gonzalo recruited members of his family to ‘clock spins’ and gather huge amounts of data on the spins of various roulette wheels in Madrid. His children in particular would spend hours and hours in the casino simply recording the results of as many wheels as they could, we could nowadays achieve the same data from our homes of course by logging into a live roulette game online. But eventually he had at his disposal a huge amount of data on the results of spins in Madrid casinos.

Whilst his long suffering family had been frequenting the casinos of Madrid, Gonzalo had been developing his system – a computer model written in QBasic a simple computer language I actually learn at school! His program analysed all the data and then assigned a value to each number on the wheel. The basic idea was that the more a number occurred in the results the higher the value assigned to that number. It’s sounds quite a simple frequency distribution analysis although there must have been much more to it !!

What he ended up with was a profile of each roulette wheel, with a list of numbers which would supposedly be more likely to occur. This is the point where most experts (and me) would have dismissed Gonzalo’s secret roulette system as yet another over simplified strategy based on biased wheels or dealer tracking. However the crucial difference in this situation is that he then proceeded to win some serious money. He claimed that his system and analysis had overturned a normal house edge (advantage) of 5% in the casino’s favor to a 15% player edge. Although this doesn’t guarantee winning every spin of course – any sensible player armed with such an advantage would never lose over the longer term.

His winnings from the Casino De Madrid peaked at over 600,000 Euros in one night, overall he took over 1 million Euros in winnings from this one casino. They were convinced he was cheating in some way and took the family to court in order to try and recover their losses. Eventually the Spanish courts all decided against the casino stating that Gonzalo had used only intuition and inventiveness to win. In fact the Supreme court suggested that the casino was largely to blame for using a biased wheel ! Unsurprisingly Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo and his family soon became persona non grata in every casino in Spain.  He soon tried his luck in Las Vegas and apparently made more money there.

But remember if you want to emulate Gonzalo, don’t waste your time analysing the results on normal online roulette games which are merely computer simulations (although theoretically you can look for weaknesses in their random number generator I guess). You’ll need real games, on real tables, in real casinos to look for any bias – there are actually only one or two currently available but I’m sure that’ll change. Dublinbet is recommended – it’s a live feed from a great casino in Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin – so you play the same spins as the punters physically there.