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Thank goodness for maths. Without maths, we would not have a great number of useful things, including the roulette wheel. It’s believed that the wheel was invented by French mathematician Blaise Pascal who was, at the time, attempting to invent a perpetual motion machine. His discarded design was somehow turned into a game, and that game became the very first version of Roulette! The irony is that if Pascal were around today to see what had become of his invention, he would no doubt decide to play live roulette online. After all, not only could he see what had become of his machine, but he could also see the closest thing to perpetual motion in our world. Because when you play live roulette online, you’ll find that the wheels don’t stop spinning.

The Geography of Gambling

No game in gambling history has had as much of an effect on the world’s geography. Not merely Las Vegas, where it has had a considerable impact, but other places too and it is all because of one man: Francois Blanc. Born at the beginning of the 19^th century, roulette was already popular in the casinos of Paris. But Blanc would go on to make a very small, but very important adjustment to the wheel: while most games of Roulette had a single and double zero number, his wheels had just the one zero. This made a small but crucial difference to the game. Wheels one or two zeros have the same payout rate of 35/1 but by removing one of them, the house edge is reduced from 5.26% to 2.63%.

This made Blanc’s version of the game very attractive to gamblers. There was just one small problem. King Louis Philippe had run them out of Paris and France long ago. They struck a deal with a town in Luxembourg known as Bad Homburg which had bad debts and a need to build up a tourist industry from scratch. Blanc’s involvement was a huge success and the fortunes of the town were immediately revived. Before long, Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II was a regular visitor.

Bad Homburg had one small problem that not even the great Francois Blanc could fix: the weather. In the spring, summer and autumn, there were no problems, but winter brought snow and that meant no one could get in or out whether they wanted to or not. If he wanted to make the most of his casinos (and he certainly did), he would need to relocate to warmer climes. He found a place on the coast in the South of France, very similar to Bad Homburg. There had been two previous attempts to build a town there, and both had failed. Having learned from his experiences from Homburg, Blanc knew that good infrastructure was the key to success and poured in a huge amount of money to build roads and railways to link his small town with the rest of Europe. The name of the small town? Monte Carlo.

Breaking the Bank

It did not take long for Monte Carlo to become a success story. Before long, the state was making so much money from the casino’s profits that they decided to do away with income tax for its residents, making it even more exclusive and desirable. But one event made Monte Carlo, particularly the casino, world-famous, and that was when British-born Charles Deville Wells became ‘the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’.

Wells, an inventor and con-artist, arrived at the casino in July 1891 with £4,000 in cash (equivalent to four hundred thousand today) and sat down at a roulette table. He remained there for six days, not stopping to eat or drink, until the casino closed at 11pm. According to one witness, he played with “a recklessness that suggested a mad millionaire endeavouring to get rid of his capital”, but what he did not do was lose. At the end of his play, he had won the equivalent of £4 million and ‘broken the bank’ (i.e. cleaned out the casino’s entire reserves of cash). Even now, no one’s quite sure how he did it. Obviously, with his history as a bit of a scammer, the likelihood is that he cheated in some way, but we do not know how. Collusion with the casino is not out of the question, as the casino benefitted hugely from the publicity. All that is known is that “Monte Carlo Wells” became an overnight sensation and had a popular music hall song written about him.

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Now, there’s no need to travel to Monte Carlo or Vegas to play live roulette online. There’s not even a need to get dressed up, you can wear what you like and play Live roulette online wherever is most convenient for you. And even if you are on your own, you’re not alone because all of our live online roulette games have real people spinning the wheels and running the table. They can help you figure out the rules, show you the features of the specific game or even just chat with you for a while.

Many of our live online roulette games have special features that you won’t find in a regular casino, making them more exciting than you’d find elsewhere. Lightning Roulette, for example, picks between one and five numbers from the wheel (after you’ve made your bet but before the ball is released). These act as multipliers, meaning that if you have chosen one of these numbers and they win, your bet is multiplied by between 50 and 500 times. Believe us, no one is happier for you than the live online roulette dealer.

You can play live roulette online with all the traditional roulette variations as well. Many of our live online roulette games offer La Partage, a French variation. If the ball lands on zero, any losing even money bets are split into two and half your bet is returned. With these and many other options available, no matter which game you pick, you’ll have a great time when you play live roulette online.

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