Online casino players are very familiar with the French Roulette. However, compared to its online version, land based French roulette just isn’t as popular. Surely there must be a valid reason for this to happen. It I common to see American and European Roulette in almost all popular land based casinos while the French Roulette is conspicuous by its absence.
Some online casinos offer French Roulette as a single game and this has a lot to do with the house edge and the average returns the game earns for its owners. It is interesting to note that all three variants of the Roulette offer returns that are very different from each other. The absence of the French Roulette can only mean one thing. Casino owners are somehow not able to make decent profits from the French Roulette.
It is reliably leant that the house edge, or in simpler terms, the margins earned by casinos as profits offered on American and European roulettes are 5.3% and 2.7% respectively. However, the casino owners earn a mere 1.3% on French Roulette. But even then, there are still some questions that remain unanswered. For instance, the variants of Black Jack and Video Poker that some casinos offer give a house edge of under 1%. So why are they retained while the French Roulette continue to get the thumbs down?
The answer’s simple. Roulette is a game based on nothing but pure luck with hardly any skills involved. In games such as Black Jack and Video Poker, there is a definite skill factor. So, even if the house edge is less than 1%, the chances of a player winning calls for use of perfect strategy by the player which rarely happens. As a result the returns for the casino owners can be as high as 10%.
French Roulette will give the same low returns and in case someone gets lady luck to smile on him, translates into a huge drain on resources for the casino owners. That explains the reason why casino owners try their hardest to keep players away from games like the French Roulette.
That brings us to another luck based game called slot machines. Are slot machines all about luck or is there anything a player can do to get it to chime the golden jingle. Common sense would dictate that any game where players spin reels to get the best possible result does not have anything to do with strategies and talent. Yet gaming enthusiasts believe that there is something that you can definitely do to influence the results.
Good players always follow one basic rule on slot machines and that is to play the maximum bet to keep the odds favoring you. This improves the chances of hitting the jackpot or at least getting closer to the highest payout rate which is an attractive 95% average. Sticking to this cardinal rule helps players remain in the black in the long run, notwithstanding the occasional huge loss. Superstition and gambling are constant companions but superstition is a bad friend of a gambler.