{"id":5579,"date":"2014-01-06T01:44:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T08:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2014-01-06T02:03:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T09:03:15","slug":"play-like-roulette-pro-dont-bet-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/play-like-roulette-pro-dont-bet-basket\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Like a Roulette Pro and Don&#8217;t Bet The Basket"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Roulette is one of the most popular table games in the world, featured in myriad movies we can&rsquo;t recall the names of, but we&rsquo;re pretty sure roulette has been in movies, so just go with it.<\/p>\n<p>The house advantage, or &ldquo;edge,&rdquo; in roulette is 5.26%. That&rsquo;s for the most common version of the game, American roulette. You can tell American roulette from European roulette because: 1) it has a zero and double zero, rather than just a zero, and 2) it doesn&rsquo;t use the metric system.<\/p>\n<p>The bet to avoid in roulette is called a &ldquo;basket bet.&rdquo; This bet is placed strategically on the roulette layout in a way that screams, &ldquo;I am a tourist, I have too much money, and I would like to give some to this casino!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5580\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/roulette_basket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-5580 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Basket bet at roulette\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/roulette_basket.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Behold the basket of suck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The basket bet covers five numbers, the 0, 00, 1, 2 and 3. Super convenient, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, but that convenience costs a lot. The house edge for the basket bet is 7.89%, the worst bet on a roulette table.<\/p>\n<p>So, it&rsquo;s best to avoid this particular sucker bet and stick to the regular, less-sucky bets.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to ensure you won&rsquo;t look like a roulette novice is to always wait for the dealer to remove the marker (called a &ldquo;dolly,&rdquo; below) from the layout before placing new bets. It&rsquo;s no fun having your hand slapped in public, even metaphorically, trust us.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5581\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/roulette_marker2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-5581 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"Roulette dolly\" src=\"\/vitalvegas\/dist\/images\/common\/transparent_3x2.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/roulette_marker2.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well, hello.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Good luck, and we look forward to hearing how you gave it to The Man at the roulette table. And by &ldquo;gave it to,&rdquo; we mean &ldquo;took it from,&rdquo; of course.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roulette is one of the most popular table games in the world, featured in myriad movies we can&rsquo;t recall the names of, but we&rsquo;re pretty sure roulette has been in movies, so just go with it. The house advantage, or &ldquo;edge,&rdquo; in roulette is 5.26%. That&rsquo;s for the most common version of the game, American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling","category-vegas","category-las-vegas-casinos","category-roulette"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Play Like a Roulette Pro and Don&#039;t Bet The Basket | Vital Vegas<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Avoid the roulette basket bet.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Play Like a Roulette 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