Roulette
Roulette bets and table layout
Learn what each standard bet covers, where it sits on the layout and how its payout works. Inside bets cover fewer numbers; outside bets cover larger groups.
Inside bets
A straight-up covers one number and a split covers two adjacent positions. A street covers a row of three. A corner covers four touching positions, and a six-line covers two neighboring streets. Their standard net payouts are 35:1, 17:1, 11:1, 8:1 and 5:1 respectively.
Outside bets
A dozen or column covers 12 numbers and pays 2:1. Red, black, odd, even, 1–18 and 19–36 each cover 18 and pay 1:1. Zero is not part of any of those groups. On an American wheel, double zero is excluded too.
A street bet example
The street 1, 2, 3 has three winning pockets. Its probability is 3/37, or 8.11%, on a European wheel. A $5 winning street bet earns $55 net profit and returns $60 including the stake.
Separate bets can overlap
Black and odd are not the same event. A number can satisfy both, one or neither. Use the multiple-bet calculator to settle every ticket on each possible outcome instead of adding percentages as if bets were independent. For a single outcome that must be both black and odd, the intersection contains eight numbers, giving 8/37 on a European wheel. Low and red intersects on nine numbers, giving 9/37. An intersection event is different from buying two separate tickets.
Called bets and named groups
Named wheel-neighbor bets are combinations of tickets, not a new universal payout. Write down the exact component bets and stake on each. Table adjacency and wheel adjacency are different, so a split cannot be inferred from two nearby wheel numbers.