First the cards are dealt. If you have 21 with your first two cards, you win immediately.This combination is called "blackjack." If you have a blackjack, you win one and a half times the amount of your bet. If the dealer gets a blackjack, you lose immediately.

After the bet is made, five cards aredealt to the player and are shown on the screen. The player then has the option of holding or discarding as many of these cards as he wants. The cards that he discards are then replaced with new cards from the deck. This new hand represents the player's final hand. If the hand is good enough to be one of the pay-out hands, the number of credits allocated to the player will immediately increased by the amount specified in the pay-out table. At this time the machine is waiting for the player to place his next bet to start the process over again.

All you have to do is to guess which hole the spinning ball will drop into, to place your bet on that guess, and to wait for the outcome.

Table layout:
The numbers 1 to 36 plus a zero (and a double zero in American Roulette) are printed on the table. The numbers are laid out in three rows of twelve numbers and a few boxes beside the numbers, called the "outside" bets.

The numbers are divided into three betting sets of twelve each: the top twelve from 1 to 12, the middle twelve from 13 to 24 and the bottom twelve from 25 to 36. Areas for betting one of these groupings are found on the table. There are also areas for betting red or black, areas for betting odd or even, and areas for betting the first 18 numbers or the last 18 numbers.

Playing roulette:
The Dealer sees that all bets are down, spins the wheel, and rolls an ivory ball in the opposite direction. He ends the betting after a while calling "no more bets". When the ball settles in one of the slots, the dealer places an icon on that number. Now the betting results are taken care of: the dealer removes all chips that did not scratch the winning number and pays off the winners. He removes the icon and the round is over. Next, the players place their new bets for the following spin. Each round can lasts approximately one minute or even less. There are different ways of placing your bets. See the section below for details.Placing bets & Payoffs: You can find all the bets, betting combinations and their odds on the table below.

Here are a few sample payoffs:
Straight-up bet: A bet on one number (Any number including 0 and 00). Pays 35 to 1 (that is, your bet plus 35 times your bet).Split bet: Placing a chip on a line between two numbers. If either comes up you get 17 to 1.Street bet: A chip on the edge of a row covers three numbers. Pay off is 11 to 1.Corner bet: A chip on an intersection covers four numbers. Pay off is 8 to 1.Red or black: Pay off is 1 to 1.A bet on 18 numbers: pays 1 to 1.A bet on 12 numbers: pays 2 to1.
Of course the more numbers you choose to cover in one bet the lower is the payoff.