Live roulette
Live roulette, and the one pocket that doubles the price
Two live roulette tables can look identical, be dealt by the same croupier and cost a player twice as much as each other, and the difference is a single pocket he can count from the stream. We show the division and name the operators whose rooms serve Canada.
A European wheel?
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A game that publishes its own price
Roulette is the game we would put in front of a reader who has never calculated anything about a casino, because the whole of its economics fits in one division ("the house edge"), and the division uses numbers he can see for himself (the pockets, and the payout on the felt). A wheel, a ball, a payout printed on the felt, and a result that a camera watches rather than a "random number generator" decides.
The sum takes four lines. The European wheel carries thirty-seven pockets, numbered one to thirty-six with a single green zero, and a "straight-up" bet on one number pays thirty-five to one. Imagine a player who covers every pocket with a single chip ("covering the table", in the language of the floor): he stakes thirty-seven chips, one of them wins, and he collects thirty-six (thirty-five in winnings and the chip he had on the winning number).
He is one chip short of where he started, out of thirty-seven staked, and that fraction is the "house edge" of the whole game: two point seven per cent, or two dollars and seventy cents on every hundred dollars that passes across the table.
The American wheel adds a second green pocket, the "double zero", and changes nothing else. Our imaginary player now stakes thirty-eight chips to collect the same thirty-six (the payout did not move), so the house keeps two chips in thirty-eight, and the price of the game ("the edge", again) is five point two six per cent.
Why that difference matters more than it looks
Two and a half points; a gap of that size sounds modest until it is put against a session rather than a spin. Take a player who stakes five dollars a spin at a live table turning forty spins an hour: he puts two hundred dollars across the felt in that hour, and the European wheel expects to keep five dollars and forty cents of it ("expects" meaning on average over many hours) while the American wheel expects to keep ten dollars and fifty.
Over a year of one hour a week the difference between the two tables, for a game that looks the same, is in the order of two hundred and sixty dollars (fifty-two hours, five dollars and ten cents an hour). It is more than any entry offer in our index would hand the same player, and he obtains it by counting green pockets rather than by claiming anything!
The reason we find both wheels in the same lobby is historical rather than deliberate: the double zero is an American convention, the single zero a European one, and a studio selling to the whole world builds both. Nobody is hiding anything, and the names of the tables ("European Roulette", "American Roulette") say so.
What the lobby does not do is rank them for the reader, because a lobby is not built to tell a player which of its own products is the dearer. That is the gap this page exists to fill, and it needs two divisions rather than an opinion.
- Yes — read at the source and working as described
- Partly — it exists, with a condition that matters
- No — it does not exist, or the rules forbid it
- Not verified — we looked and could not establish it, and we say so
The French rules, which are the best price in the building
There is a cheaper table still. A smaller family of tables carries a rule that goes by two names, "la partage" and "en prison", and on the even-money bets it changes the arithmetic again. Under "la partage", a player whose even-money bet (red, black, odd, even, high, low) is sitting on the felt when the ball lands in zero loses half his stake instead of all of it ("partage" is simply the French for a split).
The sum is quick, and it is the one place where a rule hands money back to the player. The zero takes one chip in thirty-seven from an even-money bet on a plain European table, and with half of it returned it takes half a chip in thirty-seven, which is one point three five per cent. That is the lowest house edge on any table game in a live casino, baccarat's banker bet included.
"En prison" reaches the same place by a different route, because the stake is held rather than halved: the stake is held for one further spin and returned in full if it wins (hence "in prison"), which over many spins gives the player back the same half. The two rules appear under "French" and sometimes under "Monte Carlo" table names, so that a reader who wants the price has to read the name before the felt, and the panel states which one of them is in force.
We would send any reader who wants an hour of live roulette at the lowest price in the room to look for that word in the table name first, and to treat the rest of the lobby's description as decoration.
The tables belong to the studio, not to the brand
Which wheels a casino offers is a consequence of which studio supplies it, and the supplier is recorded in our files where the asset register of this site records it (read on 21 October 2026). Jackpot City draws its live tables from Evolution on the Games Global platform; LuckyDays assembles a multi-provider catalogue that includes Evolution beside Pragmatic Play and Red Tiger; Videoslots carries a live casino beside its slot catalogue.
The practical consequence for a reader is that the wheel is the same wheel at every brand buying from the same studio, which collapses a choice between twelve casinos into a choice between two or three "studios" (the studio’s name sits in a corner of the video feed, usually bottom left). We think that is a relief rather than a disappointment, because it moves the decision to the part the operator actually controls.
What the operator controls is the account: the currency the "balance" is held in, the "table limits" the account may join, and the days a withdrawal takes. On a game whose price is two point seven per cent, an exchange spread of two and a half per cent each way is not a detail; it is comparable to the edge of the game itself.
That is the argument of this whole site compressed into one sentence, and roulette is where it is easiest to see.
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The things sold alongside the wheel, and what they cost
Two additions are worth a word. Live roulette tables now arrive wrapped in them, and both are sold as generosity. The first is the "multiplier" wheel, where a straight-up win can be paid at a far higher rate on selected numbers; the price of that is paid elsewhere, because the ordinary payouts on the same table are reduced to fund it, and the panel gives those reduced numbers.
The second is the "racetrack" and the named bets on it (voisins du zéro, tiers, orphelins), which are a convenience for placing groups of numbers ("the neighbours of zero", and so on) rather than a different proposition. Each of them costs the same two point seven per cent as a single number on the same wheel, because every bet on a European wheel except the five-number line (which does not exist on a single-zero wheel) is scaled to its own odds.
You can therefore choose among them entirely on how you want your money to behave rather than on what it costs you, which is an unusual freedom in a casino and worth knowing about. Thirty-seven straight-up chips and one chip on red carry the same expected cost and nothing else in common!
Our advice stops there, and it stops there deliberately: we have not played at these tables, no account was opened to watch one, and a judgement about a room's atmosphere is not something this site is in a position to sell.
What could not be read from here
The Games Global brands answer a request from outside Canada with a refusal (an HTTP "403"), so their live lobbies could not be opened from this desk, and the list of wheels at each one, the minimums and the presence of the French rules come from the operators' own material rather than from a screen we looked at.
Where our files hold no reading, the card says "not verified" rather than carrying a plausible figure, and that applies to every minimum stake on this page. A number that looks authoritative and is a guess does more harm than a gap, because a gap can be filled by the reader and a guess cannot be seen.
What the page leaves you with is a check you can make on any stream in the world, in two seconds, with no account and no trust in us: count the green pockets.
Questions readers ask
How do I tell a European wheel from an American one?
Count the green pockets on the stream: one is European, two is American. It is the fastest and most valuable check in a casino, it takes about two seconds, and it tells you whether the next hour will cost you two point seven per cent of what you stake or five point two six.
Do the French rules really halve the edge?
On the even-money bets only, and yes. Under "la partage" a player loses half his even-money stake when the ball lands in zero instead of all of it, which takes the edge on those bets from two point seven per cent to one point three five, and it is the lowest price on any table in a live casino.
Does the croupier influence where the ball lands?
No, and that is the point of a live table rather than a complaint about it: the croupier spins a physical wheel whose pockets anybody can count, and the house edge comes out of the arithmetic of thirty-seven or thirty-eight pockets against a payout of thirty-five to one. Nothing he does changes that division (and nothing he could do would).
Which bet on the wheel is the cheapest?
On a European wheel every bet except the five-number line costs the same two point seven per cent, because the payouts are scaled to the odds; on a table with "la partage" the even-money bets fall to one point three five. The choice between red and a straight-up number is a choice about variance, not about price.
By the Canadian Dollar Casinos editorial team · Last updated October 2026 · Online since 2012
