How to Play Auto Roulette: Rules, Bet Spots & a First-Spin Walkthrough

Auto Roulette is European roulette with the dealer removed. A physical 37-pocket wheel in Evolution's Riga studio is spun by a compressed-air launcher, the ball lands, a sensor reads the pocket, and a new betting window opens about every 51 seconds. You bet exactly as you would on a dealer table: straight numbers, splits, colours, dozens, or racetrack sectors. Our tracker has logged 275,852 spins on this wheel since December 2025, and everything below about payouts and frequencies is checked against that record. For a wider view of the game start with the Auto Roulette guide.

What is Auto Roulette and how is it different from a dealer table?

Auto Roulette is a fully automated single-zero roulette table from Evolution. There is no croupier, no presenter and no chat host; the only thing on camera is the wheel itself, with the ball fired by a pneumatic launcher rather than a human hand. Evolution has run automated wheels since the early 2010s, and this table never pauses for shift changes.

The rules are standard European roulette. Thirty-seven pockets, numbers 0 to 36, eighteen red, eighteen black and one green zero. Payouts match the classic layout, with straight-up at 35:1. There are no multipliers, no lightning numbers and no side bets, which makes this the plainest roulette table Evolution offers.

What changes is pace and atmosphere. A dealer table has a rhythm set by the person spinning; the automated wheel keeps a fixed cycle of around 50 to 60 seconds from one betting window to the next. In our data that is about 1,690 spins per day. If you have played Evolution's multiplier tables, our Lightning Roulette guide explains how those differ; Auto Roulette is the version to learn on because there is nothing extra to understand.

What is on the Auto Roulette screen?

The layout has four working areas, and the video takes up whichever part is left.

The wheel feed. A camera looks down on the wheel, with a second angle cutting in as the ball drops. The winning number and its colour appear as an overlay once the sensor confirms the pocket.

The betting grid. The familiar 3-by-12 number layout with zero at the top, surrounded by the outside boxes for the dozens, columns, red, black, odd, even, 1-18 and 19-36. Tapping a chip then tapping a spot places the bet. Chips on the lines between numbers form splits, streets, corners and lines.

The racetrack. A toggle swaps the grid for an oval track showing the numbers in wheel order. Sectors of the track are labelled Voisins du Zero, Tiers du Cylindre, Orphelins and Jeu Zero. Tapping a number on the track with a neighbour count set places that number plus its neighbours on each side of the wheel.

Chips, timer and history. The chip stack sits below the grid with Undo, Double and Repeat beside it. A bar counts the betting window down and turns red at the end. A strip of recent numbers runs along one edge, and a stats tab shows hot and cold numbers from the last hundred or so spins. That in-game view is short; our live stats page tracks the same wheel over 100,000-plus spins.

How does one spin of Auto Roulette play out?

One cycle takes roughly 50 to 60 seconds and always runs in the same order.

The betting window opens the moment the last result is paid. The bar starts full and drains; the feed shows about 36 seconds from the window opening to the result being settled, with a short pause before the next window. You can add, remove or change chips until the bar turns red. Once it does, bets lock and the launcher fires the ball against the direction of the wheel.

The ball circles for several seconds, drops through the deflectors and settles in a pocket. The sensor reads the number, the overlay shows it, and the grid highlights the winning spot along with every outside bet it belongs to. Winning chips pay to your balance; losing chips are cleared.

Then the cycle restarts. There is no dealer announcing "no more bets," so the bar is your only cue. Decide your bet before the window opens rather than during it; new players often miss the first window or two.

What are the inside bets and what do they pay?

Inside bets sit on the number grid and cover between one and six numbers. All of them pay at the same 2.70% house edge; the difference is how often they hit and how much they pay when they do.

Bet	Where the chip goes	Numbers covered	Hit rate per spin	Pays
Straight-up	On a single number	1	2.70%	35:1
Split	On the line between two numbers	2	5.41%	17:1
Street	On the outer edge of a row of three	3	8.11%	11:1
Corner	On the intersection of four numbers	4	10.81%	8:1
Line (six)	On the outer edge between two rows	6	16.22%	5:1

Source: Evolution's payout table in the game client help; the odds follow from 37 pockets.

Payouts are quoted "to one," so a 1 chip straight-up that wins pays 35 and returns the stake for 36 back in total. A corner pays 8 plus the stake. Over 103,221 spins in our last 90 days, every individual number came up between 2.62% and 2.78% of the time against a theoretical 2.70%, so a straight-up bet on any number hits about once every 37 spins on average. The average gap between hits of a given number in our data was 37.0 spins, which is the theoretical figure to one decimal place.

What are the outside bets and what do they pay?

Outside bets cover 12 or 18 numbers and pay 2:1 or 1:1. They lose the whole stake when zero lands, because the standard Auto Roulette table does not use la partage or en prison. That single green pocket is the entire house edge on these bets.

Bet	Numbers covered	Hit rate per spin	Pays	Observed share, last 90 days
Red	18	48.65%	1:1	48.63%
Black	18	48.65%	1:1	48.64%
Odd	18	48.65%	1:1	48.59%
1-18 (low)	18	48.65%	1:1	48.67%
1st dozen (1-12)	12	32.43%	2:1	32.49%
2nd dozen (13-24)	12	32.43%	2:1	32.29%
3rd dozen (25-36)	12	32.43%	2:1	32.49%
Column 1	12	32.43%	2:1	32.55%
Column 2	12	32.43%	2:1	32.41%
Column 3	12	32.43%	2:1	32.31%

Observed shares are from 103,221 spins tracked between late May and 2026-08-28. Zero landed 2.73% of the time against a theoretical 2.70%.

Even-money bets are the beginner's natural starting point because they hit nearly every other spin and the swings are small. A 2:1 dozen hits about a third of the time. Neither is a better deal than a straight-up: the expected loss on every one of these bets is 2.70% of the stake, which our RTP page sets out bet by bet.

How do the racetrack bets work?

The racetrack places a group of chips on a section of the physical wheel in one tap, which is useful because the wheel order (0, 32, 15, 19, 4, 21 and so on) bears no relation to the number grid.

Voisins du Zero covers the 17 numbers around zero with 9 chips, spread across splits, a street and a corner. It is the biggest sector, and in our last 90 days it contained the winning number 45.62% of the time against a theoretical 45.95%.

Tiers du Cylindre covers the 12 numbers opposite zero with 6 chips, all splits. Observed 32.61%, theory 32.43%.

Orphelins covers the 8 numbers left over in two small arcs with 5 chips. Observed 21.77%, theory 21.62%.

Jeu Zero is a compact 7-number bet around zero with 4 chips.

Neighbours lets you pick a number and a spread; tapping 17 with two neighbours puts a straight-up chip on 17 and on the two pockets either side of it on the wheel, five chips in all.

Because the chips land on ordinary splits and straights, the payouts are the ordinary ones. A sector bet is not a separate wager type with its own odds; it is a shortcut. The house edge stays at 2.70% on every chip. The full breakdown of how sectors performed in our data, and why the gaps from theory are noise, is on the streaks and sectors page.

Which Auto Roulette rules catch beginners out?

Most losses that feel unfair on this table come from five things that are easy to misread.

The timer does not wait. With no dealer, the betting bar is the only signal. A chip tapped after the bar goes red is rejected and the round simply runs without it. Players often think a bet was placed when it was not. Check the chips are visibly on the layout before the bar empties.

Zero takes everything on outside bets. On this table a red bet loses the full stake when zero lands, and so does odd, even, low, high, every dozen and every column. Some Evolution roulette tables offer la partage, which returns half; the standard Auto Roulette table does not, so confirm the rules in the help panel of the table you open.

Repeat copies the previous spin, including the mistakes. The Repeat button re-places the last layout in full. If you had a stray chip on 34 last spin, it comes back. Double doubles every chip on the table, not just the last one placed.

Neighbour bets cost more chips than they look. A neighbour bet with a spread of two costs five chips, with a spread of four it costs nine. The client shows the total, but it is easy to place a much larger stake than intended from the racetrack.

The in-game hot and cold list is not information. A number that hit five times in the last hundred spins has exactly a 1/37 chance on the next spin, the same as one that hit zero times. Our tracker recorded the same number repeating on the following spin 2,716 times in 90 days, 2.6% of spins against 2.70% expected, with no sign that recent hits change the odds.

There is a payout cap. Evolution's per-round cap of 500,000 applies, and operators may set lower ceilings. At normal stakes this never matters, but very large straight-up bets can hit it.

Does Auto Roulette play the same on mobile?

Yes, it is the same wheel and the same bets, rearranged to fit a phone. The video moves to the top, the grid below it, and a button swaps between the grid and the racetrack. Landscape mode looks like the desktop layout with the video beside the grid.

On a small screen the lines between numbers are narrow, so splits and corners take a little care; pinching to zoom the grid helps. Outside bets and racetrack sectors are large targets and rarely misplaced.

Since it is a live video stream, a session uses considerably more data than a slot. The settings menu lets you drop stream quality, and if the connection sags the client keeps taking bets and showing results as text even while the picture stalls. There is no standalone Evolution app; you play through the casino's own app or mobile site. Anything in an app store presenting itself as "Auto Roulette" with its own wheel is an imitation, not this table.

Free play is not really available for a live wheel. The stream and the results are shared by everyone, so there is no demo version. The nearest thing to a practice session is a minimum chip on an even-money bet, which at most operators is 0.10 or 0.20.

What should a first session on Auto Roulette look like?

Bet the minimum on one even-money spot, sit through around 30 spins, and treat it as learning the cycle rather than trying to win.

The reason to pick red or black, or low or high, is the swing. A 1:1 bet wins 48.65% of the time, so a 30-spin session at a fixed stake moves your balance up and down by a few units and lets you watch the timer, the launch and the payout without drama. Our 90-day data shows the longest red run was 16 spins and the longest black run was 13, so even on an even-money bet you can expect a run against you of five or six in a row at some point in an hour.

Add a straight-up chip once the rhythm feels familiar, and expect it to miss a lot. The average wait between hits of any given number was 37.0 spins in our data, and the longest drought for a single number in 90 days was 469 spins without 29 landing. Neither figure says anything about the next spin. It says a straight-up bet is a long-odds bet.

The one thing that separates Auto Roulette from a dealer table for bankroll purposes is speed. At about 70 spins an hour, a 1 chip on every spin exposes 70 units an hour, and the expected cost of that is 70 times 2.70%, or just under 2 units an hour. Double the stake and the expected cost doubles with it. The strategy page works through progression systems and why the fixed edge makes them all cost the same over time.

How do you use the live tracker before you sit down?

Our tracker follows the Auto Roulette table through the casino.org feed and has stored every spin since 2025-12-28: 275,852 in total as of 2026-08-28, 50,658 in the last 30 days. The Auto Roulette live tracker is worth a look before a session for three reasons.

To check the table is live. If the last result is under a minute old, the wheel is running. If your client shows no betting window, the fault is on your side or the operator's, not in the studio.

To set realistic expectations. The colour and dozen shares in the tables above are the same ones the tracker shows, refreshed as spins come in. Seeing red at 48.63% over 100,000 spins is a good reminder that the wheel does what the maths says.

To understand droughts. The zero drought widget shows spins since the last green pocket. Zero's average gap in our data is 36.6 spins, but the longest was 396, ending on 2026-08-23. A long drought looks like it must end soon; it does not. Each spin is a fresh 1/37.

One caveat: the collector was offline from 2026-06-30 to 2026-07-09, so daily spin counts inside that window are low. Shares and frequencies are unaffected. The live stats guide explains every widget on the page.

Playing responsibly

Auto Roulette's fixed 51-second cycle makes it easy to lose track of how many spins have passed. Set a loss limit and a time limit before opening the table, use the operator's deposit and session tools, and stop when either is reached, whatever the last ten numbers were.

Play only at operators licensed where you live and only if you are of legal age. The wheel has no memory, no bet has an edge over the house, and long streaks of any kind are ordinary. If gambling has stopped being entertainment, our responsible gambling observatory links to self-exclusion schemes and helplines in regulated markets.

Frequently asked questions

How does Auto Roulette work without a dealer?

A compressed-air mechanism launches the ball into a real physical wheel and a sensor reads the pocket the ball stops in. Evolution streams the wheel from its Riga studio around the clock. The betting window, the launch, the result and the payout all run on a fixed cycle of about 50 to 60 seconds. There is nobody to chat with, but the wheel, the ball and the odds are the same as any single-zero European table.

Is Auto Roulette the same as Speed Auto Roulette?

No. Both are Evolution automated wheels, but Speed Auto Roulette runs a shorter cycle of roughly 25 seconds while standard Auto Roulette takes about 50 to 60 seconds per spin. They are separate tables with separate results. Our tracker at /games/auto-roulette follows the standard Auto Roulette table only; if you are playing the speed version, the numbers you see there do not apply to your table.

What is the RTP of Auto Roulette?

Evolution states 97.30% for every bet on Auto Roulette, which is the standard single-zero figure: one green pocket out of 37 gives a 2.70% house edge. Straight-up, dozens and red or black all share the same edge. There is no la partage or en prison rule on the standard table, so even-money bets lose the full stake when zero lands. Check the in-game help, because some operators run Evolution tables with different rules.

Can you play Auto Roulette on your phone?

Yes. The game runs inside the casino's mobile site or app, with the same wheel stream and the same bet layout rearranged for a narrow screen. In portrait the video sits on top and the betting grid below; a button switches between the number grid and the racetrack. The stream quality can be lowered in settings if your connection is weak, and bets still register while the video is buffering.

How many spins per hour does Auto Roulette do?

About 70. Our tracker recorded 50,658 spins in the last 30 days, which works out to roughly 1,690 a day, or one spin every 51 seconds. The wheel spins at the same pace whether five people or five thousand are betting, so the hourly count barely changes between quiet and busy periods. That steady speed is the main thing to budget for: at 70 spins an hour, a fixed stake per spin adds up fast.