Boule

Quick Tips

• If you like roulette you should explore this favorite french casino game.
• The house edge in boule ( 11.11%.) is higher than in roulette
• Many players believe that if you want to win big money in boule (and roulette) you should make larger wagers on safer bets.

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La boule is a casino game similar to roulette. It's especially popular in French casinos and can be found in those online casinos which are the most popular among french players, such as Casino 770 and Casino Riva.

Boule (french for ball) is played with a boule wheel, a betting layout and a rubber ball. The wheel consists of 36 numbered holes which are either red, black or yellow. The numbers range from 1 to 9 and they are placed next to the holes in a consecutive order. Each number is imprinted on the boule wheel four times which means that the ball is more likely to land on a particular number than in roulette.

The bets in boule are placed in the same way as in roulette, you may bet on a single number, on the color, on odd and even numbers and on the low (1,2,3,4) and high (6,7,8,9) groupings of consecutive numbers. Number 5 in boule is the same as a 0 or 00 in roulette, the hole next to 5 is yellow which means that all of the wagers which did not bet on 5 are lost. As there are as much as four 5's on the wheel the chances of it being spun are greater than those of spinning 0 in roulette.

The game of boule begins with players placing their bets. As soon as the bets are made the dealer spins the wheel and launches the ball. Eventually the ball stops on one of the numbers and this determines the winners.

The payout structure in boule is actually very simple. All of the single number bets pay 7 to 1, whereas all of the others (odd, even, red, black, low, high) pay even money – 1:1. The house edge on any bet is 11,11%.

Boule Strategy

Basically boule is a simplified version of roulette and a nice game to play for a change. Although the house edge is rather high, boule is the game where one can make single number bets and have reasonable hope for it to come up. As in roulette, some players like to keep track of the game and see which numbers and colors tend to appear more often. remember that boule carries an 11.11% casino edge, the online casino RNG's also tend to follow interesting patterns.

Another suggestion when playing boule is, of course, not to get carried away and control your game. It is always wiser to make safe bets – color, odd, even, high, low as they offer better odds. When betting on some particular number it is important to know that there's only 1 chance out of 10 that it will come up. Although that's a much higher possibility than when making the same bet on roulette, the house edge is still quite high, therefore such bets should not be made too often.