With Roulette the Roulette rules are basically the same whether you are playing either American or European Roulette. The difference between European and American Roulette is that you will find on the European Roulette wheel there is only one zero as opposed to double zeros on the American Roulette Wheel.

The benefit of playing with fewer zeros means better odds for you the player as opposed to more zeros which makes better odds for the house which is the casino. So it is to your advantage to play European Roulette as opposed to playing American Roulette at an online casino.

Regarding the Roulette wheel you will find that with European Roulette the wheel has 37 numbers --inclusive zero-- and the American Roulette has 38 with the double zero on the wheel. You may quite often find that the house edge for American Roulette is 5.3% as opposed to 2.7% for European Roulette.

When you are playing at an online casino you will find that the rules are the same as a land based casino, but that there are other differences when playing at an online casino. Where the ball will eventually lands in an online casino Roulette wheel is all dependent upon the software which is called the Random Number Generator --RNG--.

With a RNG this piece of software is constantly producing thousands of random numbers each and every second, and those random numbers are extracted when an event occurs such as the roulette wheel been spun--. These numbers are mapped until the end when the ball ends up landing on a number which gives you total randomness and appropriate odds.