Roulette French Bets: Roulette also allows different bets on various other combinations of numbers. These specific number series have different names ‘French Bets’.
The name for these bets are ‘French Bets’.These bets offer no additional advantage as all bets are the same. Not all casinos offer these bets, and some may offer additional bets or variations on these.
Voisins du Zéro (Neighbors of Zero)
17 Numbers lying between 22 and 35 on the roulette wheel.
These include: 22, 18, 29, 7, 28, 12, 35, 3, 26, 0, 32 15, 19, 4, 21, 2 ,25.
Nine chips or multiples thereof are wagered on this bet. Players place 2 chips on the 0-2-3 trio, 1 one the 4-7 split, 1 on the 12-15 split, 1 on the 18-21 split,
1 on the 19-22 split, 2 on the 25-26-28-29 corner and 1 on the 32-35 split.
Neighbours
Neighbours is the most common French Bet. You call a number and a amount to bet ’20 by ten’ for instance.
This means you are betting $€£ 10 on the numbers next to 20., the ones next to that one and 20 itself.
The bet includes 5 numbers. You basically choose the number that you want to use for the neighbour bet, and it will include that number, and the two numbers on each side of it on the Roulette wheel.
Orphelins (Orphans)
The Orpelins Bet covers the numbers 17, 34, 6 and 1, 20, 14, 31, 9. Players wager 5 chips on this bet.
One straight-up bet is placed on 1 and one chip is placed on the splits of 6-9, 14-17, 17-20 and 31-34.
Le Tiers du Cylindre (Thirds of the Wheel)
This bet covers 12 numbers, or a third of the wheel.
It features the numbers 27, 13, 36, 11, 30, 8, 23, 10, 5, 24, 16 and 33. Players place one chip on each of the splits of 5-8, 10-11, 13-16, 23-24, 27-30 and 33-36.
Jeu Zéro (Zero Game)
This is a bet on the numbers closest to Zero. The numbers are: 12, 35, 3, 26, 0, 32, 15, you must place 4 chips.
One chip is placed on the 0-3 split, one on the 12-14 split, one one the 26 and one one the 32-35 split.
