Roulette lessons

The lessons in this track

1. 4.1Wheels and the layoutA roulette wheel has one zero or two, and the table sign or the layout tells you which before a chip goes down. Here is how to read both, and how to name any bet by where its chip sits.About 18 minutes
2. 4.2What every bet on the layout paysEvery spot on the roulette layout has a payout of its own. Here is what each one pays, how the dealer counts a payout, and what happens to the outside bets when a zero comes in.About 19 minutes
3. 4.3Why every bet costs the sameA spread of chips across the layout is several bets at one price. Covering more of the wheel changes how often you are paid and how far a spin swings, not what the wheel keeps.About 17 minutes
4. 4.4Wheel chips, "no more bets" and the markerAt a roulette table you buy chips in a colour nobody else at the table is using, and those chips follow rules of their own: where they are good, when your hands come off them, and how they turn back into money.About 17 minutes
5. 4.5Choosing a wheel: zeros, pace and priceThe number of zeros sets what the wheel keeps of every bet, the pace sets how many bets an hour holds, and together they set what an hour at the wheel costs.About 20 minutes
6. 4.6The hot and cold numbers boardThe board beside the roulette wheel lists the numbers that have come up. The board is a record of the wheel, not a forecast: every number keeps the same chance on every spin.About 15 minutes

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