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For playing Roulette you need a wheel, a small ball and a table marked with separate boxes containing numbers from 0 to 36. All players’ place their bets on any particular number or a set of numbers on the table. When the bets have been completed, the wheel starts spinning and a small ball is released on to the wheel in the opposite direction of the spinning wheel. The winner is the player who had bet on the number in which the ball stopped.

Bet – Description:

Even Odd - Bet placed on fields “even” or “odd” and covers 18 numbers. Zero is not covered.

Red Black - Bet placed on fields “red” or “black” and covers 18 numbers. Zero is not covered.

High Low - Bet placed on fields “1-18″ or “19-36″ and covers 18 numbers.

Dozen - Bet placed on fields “1st 12″, “2nd 12″, or “3rd 12″ and covers 12 numbers

Column - Bet placed on field at the end of vertical column and covers all columns (12 numbers).Zero is not covered.

Six-Line - Bet placed on the end of line between two rows. Bet covers the 6 numbers in two adjacent rows.

Corner - Bet placed on the common point of four adjacent numbers and covers all of them.

Street - Bet placed on the end of row and covers this row (3 numbers).

Split - Bet placed between two numbers and covers them.

Straight - Bet placed on single number field and covers only one.

Spacebar Media was trying to create a gambling advertisement that strayed away from the racy ones that have been used by other companies. It turns out even when trying to stay within the law, they broke it.

The Advertising Standards Authority on Wednesday cracked its whip and banned a national press ad for Wink Bingo. They claim that the ad was inappropriate and could not be used.

“We acknowledged that the intention of the ad was to portray a real-life situation in a humorous way, but considered that the ad nonetheless showed a health care professional ignoring a woman giving birth in order to play bingo online,” said the ASA.

The ad pictures a woman celebrating her win standing next to a trolley. In the ad she is holding surgical equipment and a laptop that had the words ‘Wink Bingo Winner’ on the screen. In the background was a woman lying in bed under a sign that read ‘Maternity Unit’.

The implication was that the woman was neglecting her duties to deliver the baby because she had won the jackpot. The catchphrase to the ad was, “Find the appropriate moment”.

In order for the ad to be run anymore after today’s ruling, it will have to be reworked to fit within the ASA guidelines.

Anyone who thought the online gambling industry was powerful before, is really going to be shocked now. The industry is receiving its first bank dedicated to gaming businesses.

Ivobank, a new online bank has been launched. The bank will cater mainly to online gaming companies and will process money transfers and offer secure online payments. It will belaunched in Canada, Ireland, the UK, and Spain.

The goal at the present time is for the bank to have one million customers in the next five years. That figure should be shattered long before that time frame, however, if they do what they are promising to do.

“The online gaming industry has developed rapidly in recent years, but the financial services supporting it have not kept pace. Ivobank aims to plug the gap by offering instant and highly secure online payment services, combined with competitive interest rates,” said Managing Director, Timothy Sawyer.

The bank is being financially backed by the Sampoerna family. One of the features that the bank will be offering is money transfers where families can move funds back and forth between countries if need be.

“Ivobank is perfect for anyone who wants to shop online, but does not want to use a credit card,” said Sawyer.

The word «Roulette» came from France. Its meaning is “small wheel”. We know few different legends about roulette origin.

The first tells that Blaise Pascal was tried to find the perpetual motion. For his experiments he made a device in a form of a big wheel. And his friend suggested to use this device for gambling.

According to the second legend, Francois Blanc (the founder of the first casinos in Monte Carlo) sold a soul to devil for the secret of roulette. That’s why the sum of all the wheel numbers is 666.

Roulette in the layout we see it today appeared in 1765 in Paris. In the USA this game was imported by French emigrants. And in 1800 in New Orleans appeared the first American casino. Than in 1861, the next casino appeared in Monaco.
Nowadays you can see roulette in every casino all over the world.

In the ancient ages, people of cults and religions used different objects as animals’ bones or sticks to define the will of gods. These things were thrown up and spilled on the ground, making up some figure. By this figure people determined a desire of ancient gods. This ritual marked the beginning of many fortune-tellings known in our times. Tossing up dice is also considered a trace of the ancient cult.

There is no doubt that dice first appeared in the Orient. Into Europe dice were brought by Arabic merchants and travellers. At the beginning of the XVIII century, the game became known in North America.