Players betting on roulette often disregard the surrender option. This is the option that can help you increase your odds considerably while taking the “0” and the “00” slots into account. The surrender rule is not to be found on every roulette table; however you would have to look for it. The surrender option works the best and would help you gain some or all of your wagers back if the white roulette ball lands on “0” or a “00” slot. Such a way, the casino’s edge is either eliminated or reduced to a great extent. But the only catch with this rule is that it works only when you place your bets on the outside slots.

Roulette Table

The outside slots are those where you place your even/odd bets, black/red bets and high/low bets. Whenever the surrender rule is in place and the ball lands on either of the zero slots, you may get half of your money back or even get the full amount back in some rare cases. It is pretty difficult to get hold of those tables that offer surrender rule in the traditional as well as the online casinos. If at all you happen to find this option, it would be offered at the American roulette tables and not European tables. In such cases, you would be able to receive only half of your bets.

At the time of making use of the other betting systems such as the Martingale, betting only on the odd and the even parts of the boards can augment your chances of winning. But there is no guarantee that you would win consistently out of the roulette spins every time you make use of the surrender option.

Before you proceed to the bets, it would be ideal to understand the roulette wheels. Roulette wheels are divided into 37 or 38 slots which are numbered. The European wheel contains the single zero and the American wheel contains the single as well as the double zero slots. As per the statistics, the American roulette offers a casino advantage of 5.6% whereas the European roulette offers a house advantage of 2.7%. Hence the chances of your success are greater with the European wheel.

The Good Bets

In order to win with roulette, you must know the best bets on the table. However, one of the best bets considered so far is to place an even-money bet and in such a case you would lose only half the wager if the white ball ends up on a zero or a double zero.

Roulette Wheel

On the other hand, if you place the outside bets, the casino advantage decreases from being 5.6% to 2.6% and it is important to note that these advantages are only for the even-money bets. Such bets could take place from 1-18 and 19-36, the black/red bets as well as the even/odd bets. The best thing about these bets is that you can play these with a small bankroll.

Money management cannot change the casino advantage since roulette is purely a game of luck. It cannot even guarantee a win. There are several money management systems existing for roulette, however, none of them claim to give out a guaranteed win. Mathematical calculations often seem to fail when it comes to chance. The best way to succeed in a game of roulette is to place the bets that have the best odds of success.