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Russian roulette
What associates casino roulette to a Russian roulette is just the similarity in their names otherwise these are two different games that are played and are immensely popular. So if you think that it’s all about spinning the wheel and winning or losing fortune, then you must check to see if this is the case or not. While playing the Russian roulette, one spin can cost a fortune, not really fortune but life. Let’s see how. Here the game is played by placing a bullet not a playing chip to one of the seven empty chambers of a pistol and then spinning the cylinder. The next risking step is to place the gun at one’s head and pull the trigger. Yes, this is the way the game is played. Gambling and Russian roulette therefore are poles apart when it comes down to play. Where people risked a great deal of money, here what is at venture is one’s life. If you think this is to just say and was not practice then please correct yourself because this game was practiced by the Russian officers during their free time and it surely was considered a very masculine, man oriented game. Even as the death toll increased the game was still played and continued through the Russian revolution until 1930 because here the revolvers were replaced by guns.
While gambling in the casino sense, what one bets is all the money he has or just a sum of money he wants to try his luck with. In the Russian way of playing the game one bets, risks and ventures to put forward his life. The commonality between the two is the fact that luck plays its role. The chance of survival is 6:1 where the chance of winning and losing in a casino game is 50-50. But once again what has been placed on bet is not an amount of money but one’s life. With the coming in of the revolver in the late 1870’s came is a way of playing roulette where when the cylinders spin and the trigger was pulled a person either cherished life and thanked his luck or died on the spot without winning anything and therefore ending his life for play.
Despite penalties and almost regular requests to stop this wicked play, the number of death tolls increased every month and was reported at the offices. Thus this game of play became a game of life and death.
