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Russian roulette

Posted by Nicolae on September 22nd, 2008 under Roulette and wheel games Guide
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Russian roulette (in Russian: (Русская) Рулетка, оr (Russkaya) Rulyetka) is the practice of placing a single round in a revolver, spinning the cylinder and closing it into the firearm without looking, aiming the revolver at one’s own head in a suicidal fashion, and pulling the trigger. The number of rounds placed [...]

Petits-Chevaux

Posted by Nicolae on September 6th, 2008 under Roulette and wheel games Guide, Rules, games
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Petits-Chevaux, French for “little horses”, is a gambling game played with a mechanical device consisting of a board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or colors. The bystanders having staked their money [...]

Martingale roulette system

Posted by Nicolae on August 21st, 2008 under Roulette and wheel games Guide, games, strategies
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Originally, martingale referred to a class of betting strategies popular in 18th century France. The simplest of these strategies was designed for a game in which the gambler wins his stake if a coin comes up heads and loses it if the coin comes up tails. The strategy had the gambler double [...]

Roulette Betting Strategies and Tactics

Posted by Nicolae on July 16th, 2008 under Roulette and wheel games Guide, Studies, Reports & Survey, games, strategies
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Albert Einstein is reputed to have stated, “You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.”
And yet, the numerous even money bets in roulette have inspired many players over the years to attempt to beat the game by using one or more variations of a Martingale betting strategy, wherein [...]

Big Six wheel

Posted by Nicolae on July 2nd, 2008 under Gambling Guide, Roulette and wheel games Guide, games
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The Big Six wheel is a gambling game based on a large vertical spinning wheel, similar to the wheel used on the television game show Wheel of Fortune. (The wheel used on the show is mounted horizontally, however.) The wheel is divided into sections, separated by spokes or pins. The wheel is [...]