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  2. Roulette - Wikipedia

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    The payout odds for each type of bet are based on its probability. The roulette table usually imposes minimum and maximum bets, and these rules usually apply separately for all of a player's inside and outside bets for each spin.

  3. Boule (gambling game) - Wikipedia

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    The overall house advantage for all forms of betting in Boule is = 11.11%.. Boule is thus rather disadvantageous for the punter; by comparison, in European roulette, the house advantage for simple chance play is 1.35%, and the house advantage for multiple chance play is 2.70%.

  4. Russian roulette - Wikipedia

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    Russian roulette as depicted in the 1925 movie The Night Club. Russian roulette (Russian: Русская рулетка, romanized: Russkaya ruletka) is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against the head or body (of the opponent or themselves), and pulls the trigger.

  5. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The house edge (HE) or vigorish is defined as the casino profit expressed as a percentage of the player's original bet. In games such as Blackjack or Spanish 21, the final bet may be several times the original bet, if the player doubles or splits. Example: In American Roulette, there are two zeroes and 36 non-zero numbers (18 red and 18 black).

  6. Labouchère system - Wikipedia

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    The Labouchère System is meant to be applied to even money Roulette propositions such as Even/Odd, Red/Black or 1–18/19–36. When any of these bets are made in the game of Roulette, a spin resulting in a "0" or "00" results in a loss, so even though the payout is even money, the odds are clearly not 50/50.

  7. Table limit - Wikipedia

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    There is a widely held belief that casinos instituted maximum table limits to limit Martingale betting strategies. The simplest of these strategies involves a player doubling the bet every time a loss is incurred on a bet with even odds, until the player wins. [6] [7] In reality casinos are not at risk from Martingale players.

  8. Fixed odds betting terminal - Wikipedia

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    A fixed odds betting terminal (FOBT, sometimes pronounced "fob-tee") is a type of electronic slot machine normally found in betting shops in the United Kingdom and introduced in 1999. The terminals allow players to bet on the outcome of various games and events which have fixed odds, with the theoretical percentage return to player (RTP ...

  9. Martingale (betting system) - Wikipedia

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    Let q be the probability of losing (e.g. for American double-zero roulette, it is 20/38 for a bet on black or red). Let B be the amount of the initial bet. Let n be the finite number of bets the gambler can afford to lose. The probability that the gambler will lose all n bets is q n. When all bets lose, the total loss is