There are two different kinds of bets when you play roulette, outside bets are the easiest to win. Outside bets don’t win very much money but they win far more frequently Many outside bets will win almost 50% of the time. Outside bets are very popular with players who like to play carefully. If you don’t like your gambling to be volatile than outside bets could be for you. The following are several different types of outside bets that you can use when you play online roulette.

Many of the outside bets are very similar in principle, I will go over them now. Betting red or black is to bet money that the ball will land on the color black or the color red, the payout is 1:1 which means that if you bet five chips on black and win you will win five chips; this bet offers a near 50% win percentage. Another bet that has close to 50/50 odds of winning are the bets high and low.

The top half of the roulette wheel has the numbers 19-36 and the bottom half 1-18, you can bet that the ball will land on either the high numbers or the low numbers, for example if you bet low and the ball lands on the number 11 you win 1:1. You can also bet on numbers 25-36, 13-24, and 1-12, betting on these numbers are called either Third Dozen, Second Dozen, or First Dozen, this bet pays 2:1 The last outside bet is called a column bet, a column bet is a bet that the ball will land on the numbers within a column. A roulette table has a spread of all the numbers of the roulette wheel, there are three columns containing every number. A Column Bet pays 2:1 and you win if the ball lands on a number that is in the column you selected.