{"id":36130,"date":"2019-08-14T19:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=36130"},"modified":"2019-08-15T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T11:27:18","slug":"random-facts-about-roulette-you-may-or-may-not-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/08\/14\/random-facts-about-roulette-you-may-or-may-not-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Random facts about Roulette you may or may not know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Whether you prefer to travel to a brick-and-mortar casino to play live Roulette or play <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/games.paddypower.com\/c\/roulette\"><strong>online Roulette<\/strong><\/a><strong> from the comfort of your own home, there\u2019s no denying the game\u2019s popularity. Quite often depicted in the movies and the game of choice for many looking to make a quick buck, Roulette\u2019s a lot more interesting than you\u2019d think. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some facts about the much-loved game, you may or may not already know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Devil\u2019s Game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the name \u2018Roulette\u2019 derives from the\nFrench for \u2018Little Wheel\u2019, Roulette is often referred to as \u2018The Devil\u2019s Game\u2019.\nThere are two reasons for this. The first is slightly more obvious \u2013 the\nnumbered pockets add up to 666. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re playing American or\nEuropean Roulette, the outcome will always be the same \u2013 the numbers 1-36 total\nto make 666.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other is to do with players that lose and\nbelieve that the game was invented by the devil himself. No, we are being\nserious! 666 featured in the Bible, in the book Revelations and the number is\nknown as \u2018the mark of the beast\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Accidental Wheel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man credited with creating the concept of a\nRoulette wheel is Blaise Pascal. A French Mathematician and Physicist, Pascal\nwas obsessed with probability and probably better known for \u2018Pascal\u2019s\nTriangle\u2019. However, when he was looking to devise a perpetual motion machine to\nenhance his calculator, he accidentally created something which somewhat\nresembled a Roulette wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All the Origins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While we know where and how the first Roulette\nwheel was created, nobody seems to know where the game itself came from. Some\nbelieve it was a 17<sup>th<\/sup> century game called Roly Poly, which was\nplayed in England and featured a ball spinning around a wheel. Others believe\nit was much earlier than that, through ancient civilisations, who would create\ntheir own version of the game by spinning a shield or wheel. EO or Even-Odd as\nit\u2019s also known is another game that could have been an origin or influence \u2013\nwhile other games include Ace of Hearts, Biribi, Hoca and Reiner. How many of\nthose have you heard of or played?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lucky 17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17 is considered a lucky number when playing\nRoulette, with many placing bets on the number which is centrally located on\nthe wheel. It could well be this position that makes it a popular choice, and\ntherefore considered lucky. 17 is the number James Bond opted for in the\nmovies, namely <em>Diamonds are Forever <\/em>in 1971. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funnily enough, Sean Connery played 007 in the\nfilm <em>Diamonds are Forever <\/em>and the decade previous, he hit up the Casino\nde la Vallee in Saint-Vincent, Italy and got lucky. Well, he didn\u2019t get lucky\nthe first time, but persevered and on the second spin, the ball landed on 17.\nSo, he tried again, and it hit for a second time, before going again and it was\nthird time lucky in a row. The odds of it happening three times were 50,653 to\n1 and Connery soon scooped up his winnings and left while he was on the up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Business tycoon, Mike Ashley also placed a bet\non 17 at a casino in Mayfair, supposedly his favourite number. He was at the\nFifty St James casino for all of 15 minutes when he placed a series of bets\naround the number 17 and with one spin of the wheel, he walked away with \u00a31.3\nmillion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Red or Black, Odd or Even \u2013 it\u2019s not a 50\/50\nChance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Novices believe that placing an even-money bet\n(red\/black, odd\/even, high\/low) results in a 50\/50 chance of winning. That\u2019s\nnot entirely correct, as while there are 18 red pockets and 18 black pockets,\n18 odd numbers and 18 even numbers, and 18 low numbers (1-18) and 18 high\nnumbers (19-36), there is another factor to consider: the 0 (or additional 00\nif you\u2019re playing American Roulette). The probability therefore of winning an\neven-money bet in European Roulette is 48.65%; while in American Roulette is\nslightly less favourable at 47.37% \u2013 in both cases, ultimately, less than 50%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often depicted in the movies and the game of choice for many looking to make a quick buck, Roulette\u2019s a lot more interesting than you\u2019d think. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5030,6831],"class_list":["post-36130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-online-gaming","tag-roulette"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}