Roulette Casino
Roulette history is full of amazing events and different characters. Gorgeous gaming salons in Monte Carlo and bright lights of the Las Vegas have apprehended the imagination of gamblers for years. Even history of online Roulette has interesting stories.
There are two historical theories about how Roulette appeared:
- European merchants got known about this game from Asian partners all a long of the Silk Road during the Middle Ages.
- Roulette was invented in France during the 17 century by Blaise Pascal, who was a mathematician and philosopher. And later the French popularized this game and called it "Little wheel" or "Roulette". The French brought Roulette game to the New World during creation of colonies in Louisiana.
Also during the early 18 century there were a lot of casinos in North America and New Orleans.
During the 1930s U.S. government legalized casino games. Later, in 1941, the "El Rancho Vegas" was established. In 1946 extravagant Flamingo was build.
Winners in Roulette history
- In 1873 a group of British clerks won more than US$325,000, in Monte Carlo, which is more than US$5.8 million today.
- In 2004, one man bet $135,000 USD (it was all his life savings) on "Red" and won $270,000 USD.
Online casinos history
With the growth and power of the internet the history of online Roulette began to change. The first internet casinos appeared in 1990 and "little wheel" became very famous casino game. The same as in the history of offline casinos, there were a lot of online Roulette players, which made big bets.
Also there were players which cracked the computer codes, which control the randomness of the virtual wheel. As a result, a great variety of articles, web sites and books about beating the game began appeared. One of the biggest innovations is the listing of preceding spin results.
So, offline and online Roulette history continues to move towards an unknown future. Roulette is a circle, never ends.