Roulette French Terms Definition
Roulette French Terms Glossary
Roulette French Terms Meaning

Roulette French Terms Definition

The following glossary is a listing of commonly used roulette terms:

Action	The amount of money wagered over a given period of time.
Adrenotrend system	Classification of systems that wager on the side that won previously. Another name for a streak method of betting.
Alenbert system	A progressive system of betting where you increase your bet by one unit after a loss and decrease your bet by one unit after a win.
American Wheel	A roulette wheel with 38 slots numbered 1 to 36 plus two zeros, 0 and 00.
Backtrack	The outer, stationary rim of the roulette wheel where the ball is spun. Also called the ball-track.
Ball-track	The outer, stationary rim of the roulette wheel where the ball is spun. Also called the backtrack.
Biased numbers	A Big Number that continues through long-term analysis and produced by Biased Wheels.
Biased wheel	A roulette wheel that has an imperfection that causes certain numbers or sections of numbers to appear at a higher frequency than probability allows for.
Big number	A number that has hit more than its theoretical average.
Black bet	A wager on the black color numbers with a payout of 1 to1.
Bottom track	The slanting, stationary, inner area of a roulette wheel down which the ball slides before bouncing onto the wheel head and into a pocket.
Cancellation betting system	A betting system using a series of numbers that cancels numbers after winning a bet and adds numbers after losing a bet. One specific type of Cancellation System is known as the LaBouchere System.
Capping a bet	Illegally adding more chips to a bet that has already won. It is a form of Past Posting.
Carr�	French for Corner bet.
Chameleon strategy	Looking for players who have been winning and then mimicking their betting patterns in the hope that they will continue to be lucky, have found biased wheels, or are visual wheel trackers.
Chasing losses	Increasing your bets in order to recoup what you’ve lost.
Cheval	French for Split bet
Choppy game	A game where neither the player nor the house has been winning consistently. Or, a game where no discernible streaks nor patterns have been appearing.
Cold table	Any table where you and/or other players have been losing.
Color up	To exchange smaller denomination chips for larger denomination chips at a table.
Column bet	One of the three longer divisions of the layout containing 12 numbers.
Colonne	The French term for Column Bet.
Combination bet	A bet with one chip or more chips on two or more numbers.
Corner bet	A bet on four numbers
Croupier	The person who operates the roulette table.
d’Alembert betting system	A system of betting where you increase your bet by one unit after a loss and decrease your bet by one unit after a win.
Derniere	A French term for last and refers to the last group of 12 numbers in the Dozen Bet.
Dozen bet	One of three dozen numbers on the layout, 1-12, 13-24, 25-36.
Double-up system of betting	A betting system whereby bets are doubled after a loss in hopes of recouping the previous loss.
Double-zero	00 number slot on the roulette wheel. Only found on American roulette wheels.
Douzaine	French term for the Dozen Bet.
En plein	French for Straight up bet.
En prison	French phrase. A rule applied to even money bets only. When the outcome is zero, some casinos will allow the player to either take back half his bet or leave the bet (in prison) for another spin. In the second case, if the following spin the outcome is again zero, then the whole bet is lost.
European wheel	A roulette wheel with 37 slots numbered 1 to 36 plus one zero, 0.
Even bet	A wager on even numbers with a 1 to 1 payoff.
Even money	A bet that pays off at one to one. In roulette Red, Black, Odd, Even, Low, and High bets all pay even money.
Fibonacci betting system	A progressive betting system where each bet is a combination of the two previous numbers.
Flat bettor	A player who never varies the size of his bets, and bets the same amount each time.
Five number bet	Common with American double zero roulette wheels. It is a bet covering 0, 00, 1, 2, and 3.
French wheel	A wheel containing just one zero.
Gaffed Wheel	A wheel that has been rigged.
Golden Numbers	Numbers that have hit out of all proportion to their probability.
Grand Martingale	A variant of the Martingale System where you double your bets and add one extra unit after a loss.
High bet	An even money bet for the top half (1-18) of the numbers
Impair	French term for the Odd Bet.
Inside bet	A bet anywhere on the number betting area of the roulette layout.
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