Roulette

Roulette is one wheel, one ball, and a betting layout that covers every place the ball can land. A dealer — real or software — spins the wheel one direction and rolls the ball the other, you place your bets before it settles, and the wheel decides everything else. There’s no card counting and no reading an opponent in a single spin; what you actually control is which bets you place and how much sits behind each one. This page covers how a round of roulette runs at Spino, what separates an inside bet from an outside one, and where to go next for wheel types, live tables and strategy.

Inside Bets and Outside Bets

Every roulette bet falls into one of two groups, and the split trades frequency against payout rather than changing the underlying odds. Inside bets sit directly on the number grid and cover fewer numbers for a bigger payout; outside bets sit around the edge of the layout and cover far more numbers for a smaller one. Neither group is inherently better in the long run — the house edge is identical across almost every bet on a given wheel, with one specific exception covered on our wheel variants page.

Inside Bets

A straight-up bet on a single number pays 35 to 1, a split covering two adjoining numbers pays 17 to 1, a street covering three numbers in a row pays 11 to 1, a corner covering four numbers pays 8 to 1, and a six-line covering two adjoining rows of six numbers pays 5 to 1. The fewer numbers a bet covers, the less often it lands and the more it pays when it does — the payout scales with the odds against it, not with any advantage baked in.

Outside Bets

Outside bets cover much bigger groups for a smaller payout: red or black, odd or even, and high (19 to 36) or low (1 to 18) all pay even money, one to one. A dozen — a block of twelve consecutive numbers — or a column pays two to one. Outside bets land far more often than inside ones; that’s the entire trade-off, not a sign of better odds.

How a Round Actually Runs

A round opens with a betting window — typically somewhere between a few seconds and around 20 to 30 seconds, depending on the table — during which you place chips on the layout or tap the digital equivalent. The dealer spins the wheel and rolls the ball against the direction of the spin, and once the ball loses enough momentum to drop toward the numbers, betting closes — the dealer calls no more bets on a live table, or the interface simply locks on an RNG one. The ball settles into a pocket, that number is the result, and every bet on the layout settles against it in the same instant.

Winning bets pay out according to their stated odds, losing bets clear, and the layout resets for the next round. None of that sequence changes between a $1 RNG table and a high-limit live one — the mechanics are identical throughout, only the stakes and the pace differ.

Reading the Table Before You Sit Down

Every roulette table — RNG or live — posts its minimum and maximum bet before you place a single chip, and that range says more about the table than the wheel color does. A $1 minimum with a $500 maximum plays very differently from a $25 minimum with a $10,000 ceiling, and neither is inherently better; it’s about matching the table to your bankroll. Live tables typically run higher minimums than RNG ones, since studio time is shared across every seat at that table rather than generated on demand — the full split between the two formats sits on our live casino page.

Picking a Wheel

Not every roulette wheel runs the same odds. European and French wheels carry a single zero and a 2.70% house edge; American wheels add a second zero pocket and roughly double that edge to 5.26% — same bets, same payouts, worse odds for you. The full breakdown, including the French rules that trim the edge further on even-money bets specifically, lives on our wheel variants page, and it’s worth reading before you pick a table rather than after.

Beyond the base game, Spino also runs a spin the wheel bonus feature — a separate, one-off wheel spin tied to promotions rather than the roulette table itself — and a full roulette strategy guide covering what betting systems actually change about a session: bet size and variance, never the underlying edge. Play only what you’re comfortable losing, and treat every spin as entertainment with a fixed, published cost built in from the start.