[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'209522\' date=\'Mar 4 2009, 02:51 PM\']
The house edge on a single zero roulette wheel is 2.7%. On an American roulette wheel, its
nearly double at 5.28%. So, despite your claim to the contrary, it does make a difference.[/quote]
I know I don't need to tell you that the house edge doubles because the house collects on any bet that doesn't involve the 0 or 00 (in other words, all but, what, 9 of the 150 or so bets?) when one of those come up and has not one thing to do with the single-number bet to which I referred, which is in fact a .07% difference between a Euro wheel and an American one.
I could attempt to present more evidence, but you'd sit there and believe that you're correct regardless, so I won't.
The math is actually really easy, and right there on the page I linked to. If you bought up every single one of the 780,000 tickets at $10 a throw (for a total of $7,800,000), you would win every prize, which totals up to $6,488,900. Which works out to a house edge of just a hair under 17%. Which is actually closer than I thought the two would be, but still not really comparable.
