The History of Roulette || WheelRoulette.Org

Roulette after hundred of years of evolution,innovation and experementation has turned into the game as we know it and play in different casino's all round the world. It is difficult to know the origin of the game and also to decide what version of roulette was the first because history is divided on it. In the following paragraphs a history of the game and a description of the different types of the game is described. The different types of the game are as follows.

· Hoca and “E-O” games.
· French roulette wheel “0”
· European roulette “00”
· American roulette
· Online roulette games

One of most importan facts about roulette is how the game of Roulette started:
The use of the spinning wheel for playing a games goes as far back as the times of the Roman Empire and Greek states. The roman soldiers would use a chariot wheel for spinning and determining who is the winner. The included a arrow which would point to one of the 10 winning spaces on the ground. In the version of the game played by the Greeks a shield was used although the game and its nature was almost the same. The marked space on the ground against an arrow was considered the winning method.

The Roulette wheel game is often though to be the mixture of two centuries old popular games.
* Italian game “Hoca” Game
* English “E-O” (meaning “Even” and “Odd”)

Hoca game was popular in Europe in the seventeenth century. Such was the popularity and wide acceptance of the game high ranking church officials like Cardinal Mazarin, who was the chief minister of France at that time would open Casino's which featured Hoca games in order to collect taxes for the treasury of France. Hoca used a circular table and a ball was rolled on it. There were 40 cups on the table with three house cups marked with zero. The players could bet on any of the cups. The house had an advantage of 7.5% over the players due to the three cups marked zero.

At the time Hoca was being played in Europe, “E-O” game was one of the most popular game being played in England. There was a circular table like Hoca in the game it also had 40 sections which were represented as “E” and “O” (meaning Even and Odd):The forty cups were equilly divided between even and odd sections.
The houe had a lot of advantage in Hoca because there were two bar spaces in which if the ball fell the house would win everything. In spite of that the game was highly popular with players in England.