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Roulette is one of the most famous games in the entire world; however there are many facts that most people do not know.
Blaise Pascal is a name that hardly anybody would recognize, his game however is one of the most recognizable games on the entire planet, this French mathematician was the man who introduced roulette to the world, although he did it completely by mistake and many upgrades and adaptations were applied to his original primitive version.

There was once a time where the games of roulette were only played by Europe’s most wealthy and influential people. While most people are aware that roulette tables exist with one zero and others with two zeroes, but most people do not realize that originally all tables had two zeroes until around 1843 in a German town known as Homburg. In the mid 19th century casinos were extremely popular and the market was extremely competitive, this meant that casinos with single zero wheels would attract a much wider range of players than the casinos that could only offer double zero wheels.

In Europe single zero wheels are still extremely common. Even though the European casinos are filled with single zero wheels the change never occurred in America, if you walk into almost any Las Vegas casino you will find wheels with double zeroes. In the 1990’s there were numerous occasions that roulette wheels when studied extensively would reveal a bias, that the ball would end up on one number slightly more often than the other numbers, after these errors were discovered casinos took action to prevent biases, they innovated new way of building roulette wheels to make them more random.

There have been numerous occasions in which a team of gamblers would observe roulette wheels, discover biases and then attack the casinos. The most recent example of this happening was as recent as 1982 when several British casinos lost incredible sums of money to a specific gang of American gamblers.