Roulette is one of the easiest games to get a handle on when it comes to casino games. When it comes to simple rules, there’s almost none simpler than ‘pick an option and hope the ball lands on it’ and it’s this simplicity that has made roulette one of the most popular games in casinos.

If you’re wanting to get started with playing online roulette for real money or even play in land-based casinos, we’ve written this easy-to-follow guide to getting you started. 

Why Play Roulette?

Roulette has some great perks of choosing to play it over other games. Some of them include:

Incredibly easy to learn

The huge casino brand Caesars Palace has gone on record saying that it only takes around 4 short minutes to get to grips with roulette. It’s that easy! You simply have to learn the really easy betting rules and you’re done. There are no complicated mechanics or hand rankings to learn. This makes it a great choice to play if you want a more relaxing session.

Huge range of bets

Whilst it’s simple to learn, don’t think for a second that there isn’t much variety in bets – there are absolutely loads of them. You can choose to keep things rather simple, simply betting on either red or black. You can pick a selection of numbers. Or you can pick anything in between. 

The different selections have different payouts, meaning you have control over how risky you want to be as well.

Jump in, jump out

Each round of roulette is very short, lasting a minute or two. This allows players to just jump in or out as they see fit. These short rounds make it perfect as an online casino game to play on the go or when you’re strapped for time and just want a really quick gaming session.

How to Play

Any roulette table in the world will have the same things. A spinning wheel with a range of colours and numbers, a small ball and a betting choice. 

Each round of betting will begin with each player placing their bets on whatever selection they want. The dealer will then call time and begin the roulette wheel spinning, whilst spinning the ball around the edge of the wheel in the opposite direction. Depending on where the ball lands will decide whether you win the bet.

You don’t have to guess exactly what number the ball will land on. You can place bets on the characteristics of the number that the ball will land on – odds or even, red or black and even groups of numbers such as 1-18 or 19-36. The odds on these selections will be lower, but you’re more likely to win.

Different types of bets

Here are the major bets you’ll find in roulette:

Individual number of bets

As the name implies, these are bets on the actual number the ball will land on. If you bet on the number 23, you only win if the ball lands in number 23. The odds are the best you’re going to get, so if you manage to land the right number you could be in for a big win.

Number groups

You can also bet on a whole group of numbers, These bets can range in a tight group such as 3 and 4, or a wider range such as half the wheel (19-36). Obviously, the wider you go in your group bet, the lower the odds get since you have more chance of winning.

Characteristics

A very common bet – but also the one with the lowest odds – is a characteristic bet. It’s a good choice for beginners who just want to get the hang of roulette.

With these bets, you simply choose whether the ball will land on a black or red number, or even/odd. These bets pay even money and there are a few roulette strategies based around them.

Conclusion

Now you’ve got the grips of the games, if it sounds like something you might enjoy, it may be worth trying out some demo mode games or just watching some people play. You’ll quickly get a grasp of things and who knows, you may be a virtuoso!

So we come to the end of our awards for this year, as voted for by you, the members of Honest Betting Reviews. There is just one award left to hand out – that of Best Overall Betting Service 2022.

Before we get onto that though, we just want to say it was great to see so much interest this year, with a huge number of people voting in the awards. 

We feel these awards are a good opportunity to mark out those services that have performed particularly well, introduced some new innovations and most importantly, hopefully made us all some extra income over the last year. 

In summary then, the winners we have had so far are:-

• Best Football Service: Goal Profits
• Best Horse Racing Service: Little Acorns
  
• Best (other) Sports Service: Tennis Profits
• Best Matched Betting Service: Outplayed (formerly Profit Accumulator)

Well done to all of those services on their awards. 

Anyway, now it is time to move on to the final award of Best Overall Betting Service.

Best Overall Betting Service 2022

So this award is for the best overall service across all categories,  whether that be matched betting, tipsters or trading services and in any sport.

It’s obviously the toughest award to win and the most sought after. 

This year there was a runaway winner of the award, notching up more votes than all the other services put together! 

We will also give honourable mentions to those who drew some support in the voting, including Predictology, Race Advisor and the Goal King. 

This year’s resounding winner however was…

Goal Profits!

Yes, yet again this hugely popular football trading service has blown away the competition and picked up yet another award. That’s the third year in a row they have won best overall betting service and best football service.

Congratulations to the whole GP team on well-deserved recognition for all the hard work they’ve put in over the years.

Here is what Steve from Goal Profits had to say on receiving news of the award:

“Thanks, Dan, and to all your members who continue to vote for Goal Profits!

Ahead of the World Cup, my main focus was to help more new traders find success.

During the summer, I completely updated our Launchpad football trading courses. Everyone who starts our £1 trial membership gets full access to our first four courses; a total of 62 lessons. Then, as soon as they become a full member, they can access our ‘Advanced Trade Selection’ and ‘Advanced Strategies’ courses as well (another 42 lessons).

It takes some time to work through all those courses, so I also doubled our £1 trial to 14 days. This ensures that new members have plenty of time to have a good look around, get used to our research and trading tools, ask plenty of questions and have a few trades.

Full membership costs as little as £1 per day, so very affordable for everyone (even in these rough economic times).

I firmly believe that EVERYONE can find the trading success they want. Yes, it takes a bit of effort and it won’t happen overnight, but it can be done. We’re hearing more success stories from members than ever before in our 12 years as a community. It’s fantastic!

Again, thank you to everyone who voted for Goal Profits this year. We really appreciate your support.”

So well done again to Steve and his team and that wraps up our Members Choice Awards for this year.

Thanks to everyone who took part and has enjoyed Honest Betting Reviews over the last year. We really do appreciate your feedback, input and suggestions and we are looking forward to introducing some new developments to you in the coming months. 

All that’s left to say is that you can get a 14 day trial of Goal Profits for £1 here if you want to join the throng of happy members!

Firstly a Happy New Year to you and here’s hoping you have a happy, healthy and profitable 2023. 

Next up in our series of Members’ Choice Awards is the accolade of Best (Other) Sports Service 2022. 

This is the turn of those services that either focus on sports other than the “big two” of horse racing and football, or combine a range of sports into one service.

This can include anything from golf to tennis, cricket, NFL, darts and more. So it is quite a wide playing field and this was a competitive category. 

It is often in these more niche services that you find the best value however, so it is a category to keep an eye on.  

But without further ado, let’s have a look at the results. 

In third place was the Golf Insider which is a service that has made over 2,000 points profit in total and remains a popular choice among our members. 

In second place was the excellent Trade On Sports, a personal favourite of ours and one that continues to innovate and produce new betting strategies across a range of sports. It won this award last year but just misses out this time, grabbing a very respectable runners-up spot instead. 

Now we move on to the winner of the award.

Best (Other) Sports Service 2022

This year’s winner is a new kid on the block that has burst onto the scene recently and caused quite a stir.

Yes the winner of the award of Best (Other) Sports Service is…

Tennis Profits!

This a tennis trading service that comes from the very successful Goal Profits team, but incorporates professional trader Paul Shires of the long-running Trade Shark Tennis into the mix.

The service includes a range of features such as match stats, live chat and even a watch-along option where you can see Paul trade a match live in-play, which is a great way to learn. 

Even though Tennis Profits only arrived on the scene a few months ago it is already proving incredibly popular and it is no surprise it has won this award.   

So to recap then, here are the final results for the award of Best Sports Service 2022:-

1. Tennis Profits
2. Trade on Sports
   
3. Golf Insider
   

So congratulations to the whole team at Tennis Profits on the win.

Here is what Paul Shires from Tennis Profits had to say on receiving news of the award:

“That’s great news! It is always a good feeling when the effort that goes into running a service is recognised and your members have seen that in Tennis Profits. We still have an ever growing list of features that we are keen to add to the site. Things so often take longer than you anticipate, but we are looking forward to improving further the tools that we provide for tennis traders.

A huge “Thank you” to Honest Betting Reviews and to all your members.”

Well done again to Paul and his team and that wraps up this year’s award for Best (Other) Sports Service 2022. 

We’ll be back soon though with the next award in our series, Best Matched Betting Service 2022.

In the meantime you can get a 7-day trial of Tennis Profits for just £1 here. 

We hope you had a good Christmas and have recovered from all the festivities.

As this year draws to a close, we have been running a contest to choose the best betting services of 2022, as voted for by you in our Members’ Choice Awards 2022.

The voting closed on Christmas Eve and we would like to say thank you to everyone who voted. We had a huge number of participants which is much appreciated.

It’s good to be able to recognise those services that have performed well this year and hopefully helped us make a profit.

The votes have now been counted and we are pleased to announce the first award in our series – for the Best Horse Racing Service (tipster or betting system) of the year.

Best Horse Racing Service 2022

How did it all pan out then once all the votes were counted?

This is perhaps the premiere category, with the most services in our Winning Systems list coming from the sport of kings.

So as expected it was a very competitive category this year and the results were very tight. There were a number of hot contenders who had their fair share of support.

Onto the results then. 

In third place in the contest for Best Horse Racing Service 2022 was the excellent Hanbury Racing. It’s a service we reviewed last year and it made an impressive 238 points profit.  It has a penchant for big-priced winners, with another 500 points profit added this year.

Taking the runner-up spot was the venerable Quentin Franks who has been a regular feature in these awards over the years and added yet another profitable year in 2022. 

On to the winner then and the service taking the accolade this time has also been a regular in these awards over the years, taking the title in 2020 after some near misses in previous years.

After missing out last time, this year it bounced back to reclaim its crown and grab the top spot again.

Yes the winner of the Best Horse Racing Service 2022 was…

Little Acorns!

This is one the longest-running horse racing services out there, having been originally released way back in 2009.

It’s a low-liability laying system that follows a clear set of rules and has been delivering profits every year for over a decade now. We conducted our own review of the service back in 2017 and it came through with flying colours. 

It’s impressive to have stood the test of time in the way Little Acorns has and testament to its popularity that it has won this award for a second time. 

Here are the final rankings then for Best Horse Racing Service 2022:

1. Little Acorns
2. Quentin Franks Racing
3. Hanbury Racing

So the spoils go to Little Acorns and here is what Andrew David, who designed the system, had to say on receiving news of the award:

“A big thanks Dan to all your sharp readers on the award for Little Acorns! I am overjoyed many are getting some great use and profits out of it, and if I could thank every one of them individually I would.

I’m happy that many punters are now becoming more realistic in their expectations on the gains to be made from gambling, and with the help of quality sites such as yours, are now turning their attention to low risk based systems and services that can offer the patient follower some very worthwhile gains over the long term.

The focus when developing Little Acorns was primarily centred around the end user. In my experience, punters hate losing and dread long losing runs that can see most out of the game before they can reap the rewards of the upturn. Therefore, with Little Acorns I’ve included a few staking options that would suit everyone’s attitude to risk. Some are more progressive than others, but either way you will get the edge as Little Acorns simply exploits the unreliability of horse racing, to lead the end user to a profitable conclusion overall. It also provides a great platform for buyers to further tweak if they so wish in the whole arena of low-risk betting.

Little Acorns was born out of my extreme dislike of the highs and lows that come with most forms of betting and if you feel the same then you’re on my wavelength.

Finally, the beauty of Little Acorns is that it operates in an arena where liquidity is never an issue, ensuring that everyone can profit to more or less the same level.

Thanks again to all your readers and I hope to share more ideas going forward.”

So that wraps up the award and well done again to Andrew and his Little Acorns system. We’ll be back soon with the next award in the series.

You can check out Little Acorns for yourself here.