Why Isn’t French Roulette Offered At Online Casinos

The popularity of French Roulette varies from which side you are looking at it from. From a online casino player’s perspective, it is very popular, however from the online casino operator’s point of view, it is unused at all. For this reason, almost all online casinos don’t offer French Roulette. Even if French Roulette can be found at a online casino, it will be found as a single game. The reason for all this is because the house edge and average returns are very low.

Any Roulette player knows that every kind of Roulette have different house edges. A house edge is the percentage the casino expects to get back on each wager. Meaning that the higher the house edge, the bigger advantage the online casino has. See if you take the American Roulette, the house edge is of 5.26% which is very high. European Roulette has a house edge of 2.70%. Now the French Roulette has the lowest house edge of all by far and it is of 1.35%. Because the house edge is so low, this casino game has a lot of problems covering their cost. For that reason, they do not offer French Roulette at almost all online casinos.

If you think of it, French Roulette should be offered by all online casinos because the house edge is very similar to Blackjack and Video Poker. The difference between those games and Roulette is that players  have some sort of “control” over what is going to happen next. On the other hand, Roulette is a game of pure luck which puts the online casino at risk of losing money on every wager. Having a house edge of 1.35% means that in the long run, the online casino will never see more than $1,35 on every $100 wagered. For this reason, French Roulette isn’t offered at any online casino.