Racetrack Roulette in Detail

Just like everything in this world, roulette started from a single homogenous design. From being a casino novelty derived from one of Blair Pascal's inventions, it has evolved and eventually was split into various forms. The American, European and French roulette varieties are the most popular ones, all of which are staples of casinos where they are prevalent.

Aside from the aforementioned three varieties, there are many other lesser variants of roulette. One of these is racetrack roulette. This is just another variant of French and European versions of the game, both known for their single-zero wheel and differ only in the table layout and a few rules. However, racetrack roulette differs from both with regards to the betting layout. While normal roulette tables only have the standard betting spaces for the inside and outside bets, this version of roulette has a racetrack-like set of betting spaces in addition.

The racetrack is basically call bets arranged in a line, each of which are surrounded by the numbers they cover. Now call bets are popular betting combinations in European roulette. They are called as such because they are called out to the dealer even while the wheel is spinning and manual betting has ended. They are also called "sector bets" due to the fact that each represents a specific section of the roulette wheel. Such are the following:

1. Voisins du Zero

These are the 17 numbers closest to zero, starting from 22 Black in the roulette wheel going clockwise to 25 Red. The French name literally means "neighbors of zero".

2. Zero Game

This is a smaller version of Voisins du Zero. This covers the numbers in between and including 12 Red and 15 Black. Oftentimes however, this is not included in the racetrack core and is instead covered by the Voisins du Zero.

3. Tiers du Cylindre

Literally the "third of the wheel", this sector bet covers the numbers 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 23, 24, 27, 30, 33, and 36, all of which are roughly at the direct opposite of the Voisins du Zero.

4. Orphelins

The name for this divided sector means "orphans", referring to the fact that they belong to neither Voisins du Zero nor the Tiers du Cylindre. To be more specific, this covers the numbers 1, 6, 9, 14, 17, 20, 31, and 34.

It's very hard to manually bet on any of these call bets using the default roulette betting layout. This is the problem racetrack roulette corrects. This setup allows players to place their bets quicker and without the hassle of finding the specific numbers of a particular call bet.

Betting in racetrack roulette is just the same as in regular roulette versions. Here you have two options on where to place your bets. You can place your bets on one of the numbers in the "circuit" part, or the bets in the outer part of the racetrack. Otherwise, you can opt to bet on the inner part, which contains betting slots for the Voisins, Tiers, Orphelins, and possibly the Zero Game.

Winning and losing in racetrack is also the same as in any regular roulette game. However, since this version is based on the European and French variants, one can invoke the La Partage or En Prison rules when the spin results in zero and one's bet has lost. The former gives the player the ability to recover half of the lost bets while the latter gives is the alternative wherein the entire losing bet remains on the board untouched and to be gambled again for the next spin.

As summary, racetrack roulette is not much different from the usual roulette game. However, the presence of the betting racetrack has made call bets a lot easier, and also spices up the game in the process.

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Source by Adam S. Kingston