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When it comes to roulette (and blackjack and certain other casino games such as video poker), there is one simple and unbeatable way to give yourself the best chance of success and the highest probability of winning. All these games come in a range of variants with slightly different rules, features and payout quirks, and if you pick the most player-favourable option, you can drastically improve your odds of success.<\/p>\n
The other side of that coin is that if you don\u2019t choose your game variant wisely you are essentially automatically giving the casino even more of an edge than they already have. When it comes to roulette, playing the right type<\/em> of roulette has traditionally meant avoiding double zero games. Essentially a double zero gives you twice the chance of losing and increases the house edge by a broadly corresponding amount.<\/p>\n But before you ask why would anyone be crazy enough to play double zero roulette, get this: there are now even roulette games with a triple zero.<\/p>\n A fool and their money are easily parted and equally, in a capitalist world most businesses \u2013 and perhaps especially casinos \u2013 are always looking to increase their margins. And so if a double zero wheel makes more cash for a casino than a single wheel, why not chuck an extra zero into the mix and have a triple zero wheel and really jack those financial gains up?<\/p>\n Triple zero roulette is simply a version of the game that features the numbers one to 36 and a single, green zero, just like European roulette (or \u201cnormal\u201d roulette, or single zero roulette). It then also takes the double zero of American roulette and, for good measure, adds a third green pocket marked 000. So in short, triple zero roulette is played with a 39-number wheel, featuring numbers one to 36, plus 0, 00 and 000. Simple.<\/p>\n The Venetian Las Vegas hotel and casino was built on the site of the former Sands Hotel, opened in 1999 and is owned and operated by Las Vegas Sands. In 2016 the casino launched Sands Roulette and threw the first-ever triple zero down. Over time other casinos cottoned on to the simplistic magic of ripping customers off and triple zero roulette was added to the floor at Planet Hollywood, New York New York, the MGM Grand, the Flamingo \u2026 and just about everywhere. You will now find it at casinos around the world and both offline and online.<\/p>\n The triple zero wheel includes the option of a new bet, never offered at the game before: any zero. This is pretty self-explanatory (we would hope) and covers all three zero pockets, meaning you win if 0, 00 or 000 hits. This pays at 11\/1 and has a three in 39, or one in 13, chance of landing.<\/p>\n Payouts are indeed the same, so a bet on red or black (or odds\/evens or high\/low) pays out at even money. A wager on a single number returns 35\/1, 17\/1 for two numbers, 11\/1 on a triple-number split (be that a standard three-number bet or the \u201cany zero\u201d option detailed above) and so on. As we have alluded to, the payouts are the same, but in effect, the extra triple zero pocket creates an extra chance for you to lose. Unsurprisingly, this is bad news for the player and great news for the casino.<\/p>\n However, throw on that first irksome green zero and you need to make 37 \u00a31 bets to cover the board and yet will only get a return of \u00a336. That \u00a31 net win for the casino creates a house edge of 2.70%. Nice work, but why not put two zeroes and make a little more cream for the fat cats? The double zero means that 38 separate \u00a31 bets are needed to cover the wheel, whilst each one, should it win, will still only return \u00a336. That gives a healthier \u00a32 net win for the casino which creates a house edge almost twice the size, with the figure being 5.26% (for all bets aside from the \u201cfirst five\u201d wager, which carries a whopping 7.89% edge for the house). The table below shows these figures, plus the edge for some other popular casino games, alongside the house edge for triple zero roulette:<\/p>\n Such critics were quite quickly proved wrong and rather than Sands Roulette disappearing without a trace, triple zero roulette soon became a common sight in Vegas and then beyond. But why? Why would anyone knowingly and willingly give the house more money than was necessary?<\/p>\n This is a tricky one to assess and perhaps a question we cannot really answer without offending anyone who has ever played it, and other people who are less misanthropic than we are. But then being slightly misanthropic, we\u2019ll take a chance: people are stupid. Not you and your friends and not us but, like, other<\/em> people. Stupid. Very, very stupid.<\/p>\n Et tu, Linq? pic.twitter.com\/BJkOQJjooq<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nTriple Zero Roulette Launches At The Venetian<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nAny Zero Bet<\/h3>\n
Are The Payouts The Same For Triple Zero Roulette?<\/h3>\n
House Edge At Triple Zero Roulette<\/h2>\n
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In the simplest terms, the house edge is the margin the casino builds into its games and the advantage they hold over the customer. A roulette wheel with no zeroes that maintained the traditional 35\/1 payout for a single number and the even money odds for a colour would have zero house edge. Back \u00a310 on red and \u00a310 on black and no matter what happens, you end up with the same \u00a320 you started with. A \u00a31 bet on all 36 numbers yields the same result and, over an infinite period, even if you don\u2019t cover all the numbers, you would still expect to break even.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n \nGame<\/th>\n House Edge<\/th>\n Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Single zero roulette (European)<\/td>\n 2.70%<\/td>\n Same on all bets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Double zero roulette (American)<\/td>\n 5.26%<\/td>\n 7.89% if you back the \u201cfirst five\u201d (0,00,1,2,3)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Triple zero roulette<\/td>\n 7.69%<\/td>\n Same on all bets (including \u201cany green\u201d)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Blackjack<\/td>\n 0.6%<\/td>\n Edge varies with rules but 0.6% is around the lowest you will find<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Baccarat<\/td>\n 1.06%<\/td>\n Edge is best for banker bets: backing the player is a little worse at 1.24% whilst the tie is a shocker at 14.36%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n Why Do People Play Triple Zero Roulette?<\/h3>\n
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When triple zero roulette was first introduced, there were many who thought it was an outrageous example of how the casinos always come out on top and would soon flop. Why would punters choose to play with the extra zero when they could instead increase their chances of winning by playing at a wheel with just two zeroes. Or if they were prepared to really go looking (this was Vegas, after all, where European roulette is not widespread), they might find a wheel with just a single zero and improve their odds yet further.<\/p>\n\n