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Poker.co.uk - Poker News Archive
Tuesday 10th October 2006 New European Roulette Improves Players’ Odds
October 11, 2006 (Las Vegas, NV) – Aces.com’s newest game – European Roulette – improves players’ odds by eliminating the extra zero added to the American version of “The Game of Kings”. The game is one of the popular online casino’s new instant play Flash games that require no downloading or installation.
“Why would we add a game that pays more winnings than the one we had?!” laughed Rene Quesada, Manager of Aces.com. “Because if they play it in Vegas, we’ve got it at Aces.com. Simple as that. European Roulette is increasingly popular on the Strip these days so we’ve got to have it at Aces.”
The first form of Roulette, invented in the seventeenth century by mathematician Blasé Pascal, had no zeros. Early Monte Carlo casino operators added the zero to improve the house odds. When the game arrived in the U.S., Americans added the double-zero to give the ball one more place to land and thus improve the house’s chances even further.
There are two other differences between the European and American games. In American Roulette, each player has their own color of chips, all worth the same value. Standard casino chips of differing values are used in the European game. Also, the European table is much larger than the American version, so the European croupier uses a rake to clear chips while their American counterpart does this by hand. Of course, Aces.com’s cyber-croupier just clears the board with a click.
Aces.com offers online gamblers all the betting opportunities they have in Las Vegas: casino games, poker, sports betting and horse racing. Later this month, the Vegas-style online casino will be adding three more games to its comprehensive suite of table and card games.
ENDS
Further information on Aces.com, please contact:
Larry Colcy, Publicist
Lyceum Media
Aces@LyceumMedia.com
Vancouver: (604) 685-6240
About Aces.com
Aces.com offers everything Las Vegas gamblers enjoy: casino games, poker rooms, horses and sports betting. The popular retro-Vegas style site is part of the world’s largest internet gambling company, Sportingbet Plc (publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange). Millions of players have placed billions of dollars in wagers in this safe and secure environment. This summer, Aces.com brought the exciting world of poker to the screen, sponsoring the sexy new poker movie, ACES.
Source: OnlineCasinoNews
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