Most online roulette players play for the thrill and excitement of the game. Sadly, many also soon find the software used by online roulette games in the past lacked the excitement and friendliness of a live game.

If you have ever played at roulette in real life at a bricks and mortar casino, you will know that the thrill of the experience is as much to do with the ambience of the surroundings, the interaction you can have with the other players and the croupier and the sounds and smells of the environment.

Whilst not all of these elements can be replicated in an online casino game of roulette, a live online roulette game can go some way to provide a more engaging experience.

Thanks to advances in technology, the understanding online casinos have learnt about the wishes of their customers, and the increased take up of high speed broadband, new live online roulette is starting to make an appearance at more and more casinos. If you like to play different variations of roulette you may also enjoy playing online.

By using a webcam, players are able to actually play with a real live croupier and a real casino roulette wheel, bringing the feel and ambience of the real casino experience to the online game.

In addition to being able to enjoy the real live services of the croupier on the real roulette wheel, you can also often see and communicate with the other players at the table, provided they and you have a webcam installed. It is almost as good as being there in person. Yet another benefit of playing roulette online is that you can play whenever you want to.

Of course, in addition to the enjoyment of playing in a live online game of roulette, you will still want to enhance your chances of making a winning or at least keeping you losses to a minimum.

A few tips that might help:

Firstly, you should avoid playing American Roulette and concentrate on European Roulette. Thanks to the 00 on the American wheel, the House advantage in American roulette is 5.6%. This is almost twice as high as on European Roulette which is only 2.7%. The house Advantage is the difference between the highest 35 to 1 payout on betting on a single number, and the chances of the ball landing on an individual number – 37 to 1 in American Roulette and 36 to 1 in European.

You should also avoid playing straight bets, or bets on single numbers. Although winnings are higher, they are also far too high to justify use by anyone other than the rich or fool hardy.

Far safer are even bets such as red/black or low/high. Less exciting but also more likely to win and with the excitement of the new live online roulette games available, there is excitement enough for all without it costing the earth. The online world of roulette simply offers a lot to those that are new to the game as well as those that have been playing for years.

This simple system of playing a biased roulette wheel to your advantage does take considerable time and perseverance to make it work but if you are a regular player at your local casino, it will reward you as long as the casino don't realize it is biased wheel.

For illustration, I will keep it simple and only look at straight bets (those on just one number). The system can be made to work on other types of bet but this would require careful calculation.

For a straight up bet, your odds are 35-1 and this is the amount you win when you make a winning bet.

To use this system you need to spend a lot of time making small bets and watching carefully to see if you are playing as biased roulette wheel. This will take you some considerable and you will need to be sure you can afford the cost of the large number of required small bets to gain an understanding of the number sequences.

A Biased Roulette Wheel is one where the ball falls into a particular numbered pocket more often than the others on a consistent basis. this will always happen over some spins at one time, perhaps a few hours, but if it continues on various occasions and every time, then you have found a biased roulette wheel.

Once found, the only requirement is a large enough playing pool to cover enough bets until a win.

On average, over a number of occasions, all numbers would come up 1 in 38 times (on an European Roulette Table – 1 in 37).
On a biased roulette wheel, one or more numbers will, however come up more often.
The difference between the number of spins for the number to come up and 35 (the odds on straight bets pay 35 -1) represent your winnings for each round of spins.

Suppose number 18 is coming up on average every 27 spins rather than the expected 38 spins. you would bet say $10 on number 18 every spin. By spin 26 you have lost $260 dollars but on spin 27, you win $350. a net win of $90 thanks to the biased wheel. When a table is quiet, you could get up to 60 spins an hour so this system represents a very lucrative visit to your local casino.

The reason the roulette wheel might be biased is unimportant to this system but it may be a loose divider between pockets, a slightly more worn part of the wheel or a myriad of other reasons.

The vital fact, however, is that roulette wheels are expensive to replace so even where the casino is aware that it is a biased wheel, as long as the table is making overall, they often will not bother to replace it. As roulette wheels are used, just like everything in life, they begin to break down, occasionally a wheel will begin to wear out much faster than expected, and for a window of time, players can take advantage of the resulting bias.