Double Ball Rouette - Yes, Its Real

Playing last weekend at Downtown Grand, I came across Double Ball Roulette. Ok, you have my attention..

From what I remember, here how it works:

Traditional Roulette Table (don't remember if there was a 0/00 option) but instead of 1, you have 2 balls in play.
This is where is gets silly, lets say you put $5 on Black 22 and one of the balls lands on it, you don't get the traditional 35/1 odds, you get 17/1.
If you want to play just black or red, BOTH balls must land on the same color to win. If 1 ball lands on your color, you still lose.
Finally, and this is what they push, if you play one number and BOTH balls land on that slot, you get something absurd like a 1200/1 payout.

Im assuming there is a chance to make money, but the odds seem to be heavily in the casinos favor. It was a quick $30 lesson for me.

marko...

Are the Slots (frets) on the wheel twice as wide as normal to make sure that both balls can fit into the same slot (fret) in case that happens that both balls fall into the same numbered slot?

Now, assuming that this is a Double Zero Wheel (which would not surprise me at all), for each number on a Double Zero wheel, there is only one way of winning and 37 ways of losing, if both balls were to fall into the same number, unless I'm doing this math wrong, if you multiply 37 X 37, I get 1 in 1,369. And so if the real odds are 1 in 1,369 but they pay 1,200 to 1, that involves some nice casino advantage as well.

Can any other mathematically inclined member here work this out and answer what this is?

Thank you in advance!

RecVPPlayer

Hey Group,

I just decided to type in "Double Ball Roulette" into a search engine, and it came up with the following (which I now see that this game is even worse than normal Double Zero Roulette) from the Wizard Of Odds: https://wizardofodds.com/games/double-ball-roulette

Not only does it really depend on what a player bets on (as opposed to Double Zero Roulette where all bets provide a casino advantage of 5.26%), but the lowest return provided in this game is 5.33% -- everything else offers even a higher return -- such as almost all of the Outside Bets which have a casino advantage of just under 10.25%!

So I say that this is pretty bad! Why give the casino even more money than you have to? It will just make it even harder to end up winning!

RecVPPlayer

This sounds like it would be a terrible game.