Roulette Lingo and Terms

Just like any other game or sport, roulette has its own kind of words that have certain meanings you could not necessarily encounter in a dictionary. It is therefore important that you get to know some of these terms if you are to become a professional roulette player. Surely if you do not know them, how are you going to know how to place your bets, because playing haphazardly can prove costly?

Learning the roulette lingo will enable you to improve and sharpen your game play. This lingo is commonly spoken in roulette chat room, forums as well as other roulette related journals. If you are passionate about playing online roulette at an advanced level, you certainly have to master the lingo. Bellow is a few roulette terms:

• Straight up bet – this is the bet with the highest pays and has the lowest probability of an outcome for the player bets on a single number.
• Split bet – the player bets on two numbers
• Street bet – a player chooses to bet on 3 numbers
• 5 number bet – this kind of bed is popularly placed on the American wheel and involves placing your bet on the numbers 0; 00; 1; 2 & 3
• 6-line bet – the player bets on six numbers
• Outside bet – the player chooses to bet on odd or even numbers, red or black color and dozen/column payouts
• Inside bet – a bet that is placed on any of the numbers that are on the layout
• Corner bet – when a player bets on four numbers
• Column bet – this is when a player makes an outside bet on one of the longer lines on the layout.
• Call bets – these are bets on a group of numbers. There are five kinds of call bets; betting on 5 neighboring numbers, betting on 9 non neighbor numbers, betting on six numbers that are on the third section of the wheel, full orphans (8 chip bet) and orphans split (5 chip bet)
• European wheel – a roulette wheel with 37 pockets numbered 0 – 36
• American wheel – a roulette wheel with 38 pockets numbered 0 – 36 and an additional 00 pocket.
• Non value chip – a term given to a gaming chip, whose value can only be calculated according to the table minimum bet.
• Payout – the amount paid by the casino to the winner
• Dozen bet – an outside bet that includes any one of the three dozen numbers found on the layout.
• Dolly – the score marker used by the croupier to show players the winning number
• En prison – when the result is zero the casino can allow those with even number bets to either lose half their bets or leave them imprisoned for the next spin.
• Ficheur – refers to the system of giving players different colored chips for identification
• Orphans – a bet placed on the numbers 6; 34 & 17 that are next to each other on the wheel but are far apart on the layout.
• Orphelins – a bet placed on a group of numbers next to each other on the wheel but far apart on the table layout
• Voisins du zero – a bet on numbers that are next to zero on the roulette wheel

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